Tag: Libby Appel
PlayMakers’ Three Sisters Is Chekhov at His Best
It would be so easy to do a bad job of producing Chekhov. In the wrong hands, these characters might seem silly; they might seem like two-dimensional “types”; they might even seem like exaggerated grotesques. At a bad performance, we would have found these characters uninteresting — their hopes and dreams, their problems, and their… Read More ›
Vivienne Benesch Is Directing a New Version of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters for PlayMakers Rep
Vivienne Benesch will begin her tenure as PlayMakers Repertory Company’s new producing artistic director with a bold, new interpretation of Russian physician, playwright, and short story writer Anton Chekhov’s 1901 domestic drama, Three Sisters, based on a new version of this masterpiece of Chekhovian ennui adapted by Oregon Shakespeare Festival artistic director emerita Libby Appel… Read More ›
PlayMakers Rep’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” Starts Slowly, But Soon Gets Up to Speed
Christopher Durang’s 2013 Tony Award®-winning play, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, may not be vintage Durang — because it never quite achieves the sublime silliness of his choicest comic creations — but this slow-starting comedy does provide a fine springboard for PlayMakers Repertory Company, gifted guest director Libby Appel, and a cast of… Read More ›
PRC’s Season Opener Is the 2013 Tony®-Winning Comedy “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike”
PlayMakers Repertory Company’s 2014-15 main-stage season opener will be zany 65-year-old Montclair, NJ-born playwright Christopher Durang’s 2013 Tony Award®-winning comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which begins three nights previews at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 17th, and officially opens at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 20th, and runs Sept. 21 and 23-28… Read More ›