Press Releases

Please direct all press inquiries to:

Associate Marketing Director, Rosalie Preston.

We are happy to make arrangements for journalists wishing to cover our company via artist interviews and reviews, but ask that you not attempt to contact the artists directly. As a repertory company with an in-house scene shop, props shop, and costume shop, we are also happy to make arrangements for journalists wishing to cover any aspect of our company, including exclusive behind-the-scenes access to artists and technicians in the months leading up to our productions and events.


PlayMakers Repertory Company Presents “Intimate Apparel”

How do you mend a life unraveling at the seams? Who: PlayMakers Repertory Company What: Mainstage production of “Intimate Apparel” by Lynn Nottage, directed by […]

PlayMakers Repertory Company Presents a Workshop Production of “De Profundis”

A Wild Ride Fueled by Wilde’s Incendiary Letter Who: PlayMakers Repertory Company What: PRC² workshop production of Brian Mertes and Jim Findlay’s “De Profundis” When: […]

PlayMakers Presents New Comedy “The May Queen” Directed by Vivienne Benesch

Whatever happened to your high school queen? Who: PlayMakers Repertory Company What: Mainstage production of Molly Smith Metzler’s “The May Queen” When: November 22 to […]

PlayMakers Celebrates 40 Years with Arthur Miller’s Gripping Classic ‘The Crucible’

(Chapel Hill, NC) PlayMakers Repertory Company continues to celebrate 40 years of professional theatre with its second Mainstage production of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” which […]

‘Detroit ’67’ Opens PlayMakers’ Mainstage Season

(Chapel Hill, NC) PlayMakers Repertory Company opens the 2016-17 Mainstage Season with Dominique Morisseau’s “Detroit ‘67,” onstage September 14 through October 2. Special events associated […]

PlayMakers kicks off PRC² season with world premiere of ‘Draw the Circle’

Funny, moving story of a Muslim-American family dealing with their daughter’s gender transition brings a human face to today’s headlines (Chapel Hill, N.C.—August 8, 2016) […]

PlayMakers’ Summer Youth Conservatory to perform musical ‘Violet’

High school thespians train with theater professionals in award-winning program (Chapel Hill, N.C.—June 23, 2016) – A cast of student actors from 14 Triangle-area schools […]

World Premiere of ‘Draw the Circle’ to lead PlayMakers’ 2016/17 lineup

Performer’s own funny, moving story of a Muslim-American family dealing with their daughter’s gender transition brings a human face to today’s headlines (Chapel Hill, N.C.—June […]

PlayMakers Repertory Company names Managing Director & Associate Artistic Director

Producing Artistic Director Vivienne Benesch builds theater’s new leadership team PlayMakers Repertory Company is pleased to announce the addition of two key staff members to […]