Tag: Kathryn Hunter-Williams
PlayMakers Repertory Company’s No Fear and Blues Long Gone: Nina Simone Testifies to Art’s Power to Drive Social and Political Change
If Nina Simone were alive today, she would probably be Yolanda Rabun. Wake Forest, NC powerhouse actor/singer Yolanda Rabun can belt out a song with the best of them, and PlayMakers Repertory Company’s second-stage series (PRC2) has supplied the perfect vehicle to showcase her amazing talents, while sharing a poignantly moving story with an important… Read More ›
Count’s Six Highly Skilled Actors Create a Chillingly Real Death-Row Pod at PRC
A couple of interesting statistics before we get started: there are about 2,843 people on death rows in the United States, including 154 of them in North Carolina and 63 of them in Federal prisons. In 2016, according to a May 2017 article published by The Sentencing Project of Washington, DC, there were 162,000 people… Read More ›
Lynden Harris’ Count Is an Engaging New Play, Set on a Maximum-Security Prison’s Death Row
Last night, PlayMakers Repertory Company opened its 2017-18 season with Count: Stories from America’s Death Rows, an engaging new play written by Lynden Harris and directed by Kathryn Hunter-Williams. This world premiere is a PRC2 second-stage production in the Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre on University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. Count, which is… Read More ›
On Aug. 23-27, Lynden Harris’ Count Will Depict a Day in the Life of Six Men on Death Row
PlayMakers Repertory Company will kick off its 2017-18 season on Aug. 23-27 with a world-premiere PRC2 second-stage production of Count: Stories from America’s Death Rows, written by Hidden Voices founder Lynden Harris, directed by PlayMakers Rep veteran Kathryn Hunter-Williams, and co-produced with Hidden Voices, which describes itself on its website as “a radically inclusive, participatory,… Read More ›
Mark Perry’s “The Will of Bernard Boynton” Is a Must-See Family Drama at UNC-Chapel Hill
There is something particularly special about the opening night of a brand-new play. These characters, these situations, these thoughts, these feelings -– they have never been performed for the public prior to tonight. Thursday night’s performance of the Kenan Theatre Company’s world-premiere production of Mark Perry’s The Will of Bernard Boynton was no exception. We… Read More ›