A childless couple. A witch. A curse. Sondheim shows us the shadow side of Grimm’s classic fairytales in a funny and poignant exploration of the wishes we make, and what happens when they really do come true.
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Garrett Long, Jeffrey Meanza. Photo by Jon Gardiner
Julia Gibson. Photo by Jon Gardiner
Jessica Sorgi, Gregory DeCandia. Photo by Jon Gardiner
Lisa Brescia. Photo by Jon Gardiner
Katy Castaldi, Lenore Field, David Adamson, Abigail Coryell. Photo by Jon Gardiner
Max Bitar, Gregory DeCandia. Photo by Jon Gardiner
Garrett Long, Jeffrey Meanza. Photo by Jon Gardiner
Lisa Brescia, Carey Cox. Photo by Jon Gardiner
The Ensemble. Photo by Jon Gardiner
Garrett Long, Lisa Brescia, Jeffrey Meanza. Photo by Jenny Graham
Gregory DeCandia, Abigail Coryell, Lenore Field, David Adamson, Katy Castaldi. Photo by Jenny Graham
Lisa Brescia. Photo by Jenny Graham
Jessica Sorgi, Caroline Strange. Photo by Jenny Graham
Jeffrey Meanza. Photo by Jon Gardiner
Lisa Brescia. Photo by Jon Gardiner
Jeffrey Blair Cornell. Photo by Jon Gardiner
Max Bitar. Photo by Jon Gardiner
Jessica Sorgi. Photo by Jon Gardiner
Jorge Donoso. Photo by Jon Gardiner
Caroline Strange. Photo by Jon Gardiner
Caroline Strange, Gregory DeCandia. Photo by Jon Gardiner
Gregory DeCandia. Photo by Jon Gardiner
Garrett Long. Photo by Jon Gardiner
Lisa Brescia. Photo by Jon Gardiner
Here are a few more of Bill’s sketches for Into the Woods...
We all know the fairytales we grew up with. Cinderella and Prince Charming, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf...
If a bookcase falls in the theatre, do we hear it?...
After appearing as Sally Bowles in Cabaret at PlayMakers, I was eager to return to work with Joe Haj again, as he is one of the finest directors I’ve ever worked with. When he invited me to come back and play the Witch...
Here is Milky White at my studio in Saxapahaw in early stages. I started with the sculpting of the head over a clay mold then papier mache’...
PlayMakers Repertory Company announces that due to popular demand the theater has added a holiday performance to the schedule of its hit production...
Today I’m talking about vegetation, part two! Recall from my last post that we’re working on Into the Woods, and that our Witch’s first look is quite vegetable-covered, which has meant a lot of fascinating craft projects for me and my two colleagues...
We’re currently in production on our repertory shows this year, Into the Woods and Midsummer Night’s Dream....
Marion Williams is the scenic designer for Into the Woods and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She was last at PlayMakers for Cabaret...
One of the most indispensable and influential artists in the contemporary theatre, Stephen Sondheim was born in New York City in 1930...
Like Oscar Wilde, who both penned imaginative literature and often insisted that life imitates art far more than art imitates life...
If Sondheim had a partial debt to Hammerstein, he was also consciously challenging himself to emulate the triumphant construction of a Hollywood favorite, The Wizard of Oz,a work whose score he lauded...
Among the many rich connections between A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Into the Woods is their uncommon fusion of multiple sources...
PlayMakers takes audiences into the darker reaches of the forest with two tales of magic and transformation in the theater’s annual rotating repertory event with Into the Woods and A Midsummer Night’s Dream Nov. 1 to Dec. 7...
If you have not heard, anything can happen in the woods. Magic, mischief and mayhem take over at PlayMakers during our 2014/15 Mainstage repertory shows, Into the Woods...
We are excited to open the Mainstage Season with the brilliant new comedy by Christopher Durang, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Three siblings collide...
REVIEWS
PlayMakers preps for popular musical “Into the Woods”
By Drew Goins
The Daily Tar Heel
October 12, 2014
