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“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Part 2

The critic Northrup Frye in “The Mythos of Spring” forcefully articulated this contrast between imagination and authority. Frye points out…

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“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Part 1

Both James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream trade upon the familiar…

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Special Events for “Into the Woods” & “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

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…

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Michael Dempsey weighs in on scenic design

Scenic design is much more than a clever solution to the challenge of providing for the physical requirements of a text. Its purpose is often subversive…

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Costume sketches from Jan Chambers

No, you have not stumbled onto a Disney fan-site, these are sketches from costume designer Jan Chambers for PlayMakers’s production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. We won’t give away why this production has a few…

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Joseph Haj Makes the Case for Co-Directing

PlayMakers’ own Joseph Haj recently published an article in American Theatre discussing co-directing. Over the past few years…

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Durang on Chekhov/Durang on Durang

“I had the idea to write Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike a few years ago, when I realized that I was now the age that Vanya was (or seemed to be). And, like Vanya and other Chekhov characters, I started to reassess…

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Christian Daly makes his PlayMakers debut

Christian Daly is making his PlayMakers debut in our Mainstage opener, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike…

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About “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike”

As Christopher Durang points out, Anton Chekhov’s work appears both under and on top of the text of his Tony Award-winning play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike…