2010-11 season
The theater company in residence at UNC-Chapel Hill has lined up some notable performances for its next season: the Triangle's first professional staging of both parts of "Angels in America," a Huckleberry Finn play with The Red Clay Ramblers - which is the company's first musical in more than a decade - its first performance of an August Wilson play ("Fences"), and Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking."
Main stage
As You Like It by William Shakespeare: Sept. 22 to Oct. 10
Fences by August Wilson: Oct. 27 to Nov. 14
Shipwrecked! An Entertainment - The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself) by Donald Margulies: Dec. 1-19
Angels in America by Tony Kushner: Part 1: "Millennium Approaches"; Part 2: "Perestroika." Performed in rotating repertory Jan. 29 to March 6, 2011. Kushner will give a free public talk at 7 p.m. on April 10, 2011, in Memorial Hall.
Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, music and lyrics by Roger Miller, book by William Hauptman, adapted from the novel by Mark Twain: April 6-24, 2011
PRC2 second stage series
Happy Days by Samuel Beckett: Sept. 8-12
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion: April 27 to May 1, 2011
PlayMakers is finalizing plans to present the third play in the PRC2 series: Jan. 12-16, 2011.
Tickets and more information: All performances will be presented in UNC's Center for Dramatic Art on Country Club Road. Main stage productions will be in the Paul Green Theatre; PRC2 shows in the Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre. Subscription packages for 2010-2011 are available now. Call 962-7529 or visit www.play makersrep.org .
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