Theater Picks: PlayMakers stages Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’
PlayMakers stages Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’
PlayMakers Repertory Company marks its 40th anniversary season as resident professional theater at UNC-Chapel Hill with “The Crucible,” Arthur Miller’s ever-timely cautionary play about the Salem witch trials. Director Desdemona Chiang takes a fresh look at this classic, with an in-the-round staging.
7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday (through Nov. 6). 919-962-7529 or playmakersrep.org.
Other highlights
- N.C. State University Theatre stages Moisés Kaufman’s “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde” in Thompson Hall’s studio theater. Details at theatre.arts.ncsu.edu.
- Cole Porter’s tune-filled musical, “Kiss Me, Kate,” a retelling of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew,” plays this weekend and next at William Peace University. Details at peace.edu/news-events/artsevents.
This story was originally published October 20, 2016 at 1:10 PM with the headline "Theater Picks: PlayMakers stages Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’."