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Theater Picks: PlayMakers stages Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’

From left, Gabriella Cila as Betty Parris and Allison Altman as Abigail Williams in PlayMakers Repertory Company’s production of “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller.
From left, Gabriella Cila as Betty Parris and Allison Altman as Abigail Williams in PlayMakers Repertory Company’s production of “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller. Jon Gardiner

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’."

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