PLAYMAKERS REPERTORY COMPANY

An exploration of the history of the Constitution turns into a hilarious and heartfelt journey into American identity. From teenage debates to adult reflections, this ...

PlayMakers Repertory Company opens its 2024/25 season with Lynn Nottage's Crumbs from the Table of Joy, a coming-of-age story set in 1950s Brooklyn. The play ...

Explore 1950s Brooklyn with 17-year-old Ernestine Crump in this compelling story that sparkles with charm. Amid social upheaval and family challenges, follow the Crump family's ...

Get to know your local professional theatre company and help us kick off our 24/25 Season. Live music, food trucks, theatre demonstrations, and more!

The Summer Youth Conservatory proudly presents The Prom, a heartwarming and hilarious musical that celebrates love, acceptance, and standing up for what is right. The ...

with special guest Alice Gerrard Lamenting the roll-back on women’s rights around the world, folk singer-songwriter Dawn Landes re-imagines The Liberated Woman’s Songbook. First published ...

World Premiere  BY  BEKAH BRUNSTETTERDIRECTED BY VIVIENNE BENESCH  Do you have what it takes to win?  Alyssa and Homer are in a marriage that’s hit ...

Adapted by Ken Ludwig  Directed by Tracy Bersley    A murder mystery gone off the rails   A luxurious train ride comes to a halt ...

FAT HAM  BY JAMES IJAMES  Revenge with hushpuppies on the side  Your typical Southern family cookout just got anything but. Juicy gets a visit from his ...

You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s “done something stupid.” She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make ...

FAT HAM  BY JAMES IJAMES  Revenge with hushpuppies on the side  Your typical Southern family cookout just got anything but. Juicy gets a visit from his ...

A Christmas Carol A beloved tale by Charles Dickens Adapted by William Leach Back by popular demand for one weekend only! Bring the whole family ...

Beatrice and Benedick bicker all the time… but their friends see a budding romance and decide to play Cupid. Hijinks, heartbreak and hilarity ensue. PlayMakers ...

Stephen King's classic thriller comes to life on stage with the chilling stage adaptation by William Goldman...

Misery follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash by his “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive ...

When tough-as-nails sandwich shop owner Clyde offers her formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at redemption, they find purpose and inspiration in their shared quest ...

Clyde's, written by the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, is a powerful dramedy that takes a comedic yet poignant look at redemption and second ...

Get ready to tap your feet and laugh out loud with 'The Drowsy Chaperone.' This Tony Award-winning musical will transport you to a bygone era ...

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE DIRECTED  BY VIVIENNE BENESCH Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. A vivid reimagining ...

Akeelah has a passion for words, the crazier the better! Under-challenged at school and overwhelmed by her daily life in a tough, Chicago neighborhood, Akeelah ...

Zack Fine returns to put his madcap spin on one of Shakespeares most hilarious comedies. This riotous combination of love at first sight, feisty cross-dressing ...

Curl up with the whole family for an intimate evening of storytelling with PlayMakers legend Ray Dooley. Ray embodies Scrooge, Marley, Tiny Tim and a ...

As the youngest member of the wackiest family in New York, Alice Sycamore is understandably worried about bringing her fianc and his parents to meet ...

Six months since the end of the Soviet Union and two young Russian bros find themselves in dead-end jobs, in the middle of a mistaken-identity ...

Our Mainstage season opens with a group of gossipy Southern ladies at Truvys beauty shop, gossip, revelations, and witty Southern banter flow like sweet tea ...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Playmakers Repertory Company...

On October 2, 2006 a thirty-year old man walked into a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania and opened fire, killing five girls and ...

Called by Time Magazine "A triumph for the stage," and by the International Herald Tribune "the best musical in twenty years," this acclaimed musical won ...

Heidi Armbruster; dir: Vivienne Benesch. World Premiere...

Nambi Kelley; dir: Seret Scott. Boyer Theatre:...

From award-winning screenwriter and playwright Steve Martin (Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Roxanne) and chart-topping singer-songwriter Edie Brickell comes a world premiere American musical inspired ...

Elizabeth Kenan Price Theatre: Virginia Grise; dir: Virginia Grise....

Paula Vogel Playmakers Repertory Company...

BY BERTOLT BRECHTADAPTED BY JOSEPH DISCHERDIRECTED BY VIVIENNE BENESCHGalileo Galilei: father, hero, heretic. When a chance discovery leads to evidence of a seismic shift in ...

Galileo Galilei: father, hero, heretic. When a chance discovery leads to evidence of a seismic shift in scientific thinking, Galileo sparks a dangerous dispute with ...

This funny, heartbreaking, and surprising new play takes us on a theatrical journey to a place where lights flicker, things fall from the sky, and ...

Join Leaving Eden‘s Laurelyn Dossett along with many of her musical friends for a holiday concert like no other. Gather to share the warmth of ...

In this romantic musical comedy of mistaken identity, there is no love lost between Amalia and Georg, two perfume clerks who can’t seem to find ...

As the Great Recession of 2008 begins to decimate industries across America, the once-gleaming “Motor City” has lost its luster. At one of its still-standing ...

Comic genius Ken Ludwig brings his rip-roaring romp through Sherwood Forest to PlayMakers, with all the thrills and romance you could ever ask for. We’ll ...

The Master of Ceremonies bids you to leave your troubles behind as you enter the tantalizing world of The Kit Kat Klub in 1930s Berlin. ...

In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920's draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget ...

BY MIKE WILEY WITH MUSIC & LYRICS BY LAURELYN DOSSETT DIRECTED BY VIVIENNE BENESCH A NORTH CAROLINA FABLE FOR TODAY Acclaimed playwright Mike Wiley returns ...

ADAPTED BY DAVID BALL DIRECTED BY ORLANDO POBATOY A BIG-LITTLE PLAY ABOUT FAITH IN AMERICA The man of the house has lost his mind. He ...

This is the immortal tale of a crafty hypocrite who feigns honesty, human compassion, and piety, but in reality takes advantage of his naïve and ...

Twenty years ago, Pastor Paul’s church was nothing more than a modest storefront. Now he presides over a congregation of thousands, with classrooms for Sunday ...

BY LUCAS HNATH DIRECTED BY PRESTON LANE A BIG-LITTLE PLAY ABOUT FAITH IN AMERICA Twenty years ago, Pastor Paul’s church was nothing more than a ...

ADAPTED BY WILLIAM LEACH AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH A PLAYMAKERS LEGEND In this witty and warm, one man tour de force, longtime company member Ray ...

BY COLEMAN DOMINGO DIRECTED BY VALERIE CURTIS-NEWTON A DIZZY, DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY REUNION TO REMEMBER As Dotty and her three grown children gather for the holidays, ...

BY KATE HAMILL based on the novel by Jane Austen DIRECTED BY TAIBI MAGAR A GOSSIP-DRIVEN COMEDY OF REASON AND ROMANCE Playwright Kate Hamill gives ...

"Sense and Sensibility" by Jon Jory, adapted from the novel by Jane Austen (February 17 – March 18, 2012) Fortune lost to fate. Romance lost ...

BY BEKAH BRUNSTETTER DIRECTED BY JERRY RUIZ WHEN A CAKE IS NO LONGER JUST A CAKE Della makes cakes, not judgment calls. But when the ...

All is going well for Della. Her North Carolina bakery is legendary and she’s just been cast on her favorite television baking competition. But then, ...

Step into the stark, fluorescent otherworld of death row, where the reality of execution causes condemned inmates to re-envision what it means to truly live....

Over the course of a single day on death row, six men unpack their personal inheritances of violence, racism, mental illness, poverty, and unexpected love. ...

Theatre Memphis presents Bye Bye Birdie, a family musical. For more information, visit their website....

Daniel Beaty....

William Shakespeare; dir: Jerry Ruiz. Paul Green Theatre:...

At 35, Esther is lonely. A skilled African-American seamstress in 1905 Manhattan, she makes exquisite undergarments for clients including a sincere socialite from tony Fifth ...

This work in development explores Wilde’s infamous account of lost love and betrayal, so beautifully expressed in his “letter from Reading Gaol,” and takes us ...

Molly Smith Metzler; dir: Amanda Charlton....

Molly Smith Metzler; dir: Amanda Charlton....

A witch hunt is beginning in Salem. Raised to be seen and not heard, a group of young women suddenly find their words have a ...

A witch hunt is beginning in Salem. Raised to be seen and not heard, a group of young women suddenly find their words have a ...

Shiva Theater: - Dominique Morriseau; dir: Kwame Kwei-Armah....

Shiva Theater: - Dominique Morriseau; dir: Kwame Kwei-Armah....

Redefining the limits of unconditional love The funny, deeply moving story of a bewildered immigrant Muslim family coming to terms with a child who defies ...

discovering who you are is the greatest journey of all A girl with a disfiguring scar sets out from her home in Spruce Pine, NC ...

Stephen Sondheim’s haunting musical thriller has been hailed "the greatest musical of the past half-century” by the Wall Street Journal. Sophisticated and uncompromising, “Sweeney Todd” ...

book: Hugh Wheeler; lyrics: Stephen Sondheim; music: Stephen Sondheim; dir: Jen Wineman....

Jackie Sibblies Drury; dir: Desdemona Chiang....

adapt: Libby Appel from Anton Chekhov; trans: Allison Horsley; music: Ari Picker; dir: Vivienne Benesch....

Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (a.k.a. ...

Theresa Rebeck; dir: Michael Dove....

Ayad Akhtar; music: Bruno Louchoarn; dir: Shishir Kurup....

one dangerous dinner party An upwardly mobile Pakistani-American lawyer has achieved success while distancing himself from his Muslim heritage. When he and his wife host ...

A Vietnamese boy and his family barely escape the fall of Saigon and the horrors of a Viet Cong re-education camp to become refugees, at ...

Directed by Wendy Wagner November 6-10 & 13-17, 2012 It is the eve of Mary’s wedding, a night filled with dreams: dreams of love, dreams ...

Amy Herzog; dir: Desdemona Chiang....

adapt: Arthur Miller from Henrik Ibsen; dir: Tom Quaintance....

Alice Childress....

Aaron Davidman....

Perhaps the theatre’s first “fairy tale”, Shakespeare’s lyrical comedy weaves together a trio of stories set in a magical wood. During the course of a ...

The Brothers Grimm hit Broadway with an epic fairytale where worlds collide.  James Lapine  and  Stephen Sondheim  take everyone's favorite storybook characters and brings them ...

Join PlayMakers Repertory Company in kicking off its 2014/15 Mainstage Season with a brilliant new comedy by Christopher Durang, the 2013 Tony Award-winner for Best ...

PlayMakers’ PRC2 Series presents Roger Guenveur Smith’s poetic rhythm-charged look at the flawed everyman behind the myth. King endured police brutality, the glare of an ...

Mike Daisey; dir: Jean-Michele Gregory. World Premiere...

John Weidman; lyrics: Stephen Sondheim; music: Stephen Sondheim; dir: Mike Donahue....

Paul Green Theatre: Deborah Salem Smith; dir: Vivenne Benesch....

Paul Green Theatre: Noel Coward; dir: Sean Daniels....

Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre: Jeanne Sakata; dir: Lisa Rothe....

Paul Green Theatre: William Shakespeare; music: Emma Nadeau, Ari Picker; dir: Joseph Haj, Dominique Serrand....

Paul Green Theatre: Mary Zimmerman; music: Emma Nadeau, Ari Picker; dir: Joseph Haj, Dominique Serrand....

Katori Hall; dir: Raelle Myrick-Hodges....

Loudon Wainwright III; music: Loudon Wainwright III; dir: Joseph Haj....

The rare instance of a musical thriller, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler 's chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime tells the ...

The 2012 Summer Youth Conservatory presents the Tony Award-winning Urinetown: The Musical. An uproariously funny and earnest tale of love, greed and revolution in a ...

Mike Wiley; dir: Patricia McGregor....