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Rude Mechanicals visit PlayMakers

For the past week, we’ve been playing host to one of the nation’s leading devised theatre ensembles as part of the ongoing PlayMakers’ residency program supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation…

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Meet the Creatives: “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike”

PlayMakers kicks off the 2014/15 Mainstage Season with Christopher Durang’s hysterical farce Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,that riffs on the tradition of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov…

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Photos from Hold These Truths

Hold These Truths opened last night at PlayMakers. Catch Joel de la Fuente in Jeanne Sakata‘s inspiring production about Presidential…

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Meet Joel de la Fuente

We are pleased to welcome Joel de la Fuente to Chapel Hill for his first appearance with PlayMakers. Joel portrays Gordon Hirabayashi in Hold These Truths…

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“Hold These Truths” Takes the Stage

Wednesday is opening night for PlayMakers’ season finale, Hold These Truths, a thought provoking play by Jeanne Sakata inspired by the true story…

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Introducing the Assassins: John W. Hinckley, Jr.

John W. Hinckley, Jr. The son of a wealthy oil company executive, Hinckley was born in 1955 in Ardmore, Oklahoma and raised near Dallas-Fort Worth in Texas…

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Introducing the Assassins: Samuel Byck

Samuel Byck was born in Philadelphia in 1930. A high school dropout, Byck married, had four children and embarked on a series of unsuccessful careers ranging from the U.S. Army to tire sales…

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Introducing the Assassins: Lee Harvey Oswald

Lee Harvey Oswald was born in New Orleans in 1939. Raised by a widowed mother, Oswald grew disaffected with American life and by his teens considered himself a socialist…

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Fight for These Truths

On February 19, 1942, ten weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 and thereby granted Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson the authority to designate military zones…