GREENSBORO, N.C. -The North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s national  award-winning Richard B. Harrison Players of the Paul Robeson Theatre has been chosen by the Alpha Psi Omega National Theater  Honorary  Society to be honored by inclusion in Playbill. 

Playbill is one of the oldest theater publications in the United States.  It is distributed to students, faculty, and libraries in over 900 colleges and universities.  Playbill is published by Alpha and Delta Psi Omega, the largest theater honorary in the world.  There are over 60,000 members listed in the total membership.  Past issues of Playbill are housed in the collection of the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Collection at Ohio State University. 

A&T’s theatre program is nationally recognized and respected as one of the top undergraduate BFA programs in the country.  It has won the national title of KC/ACTF (Kennedy Center /American College Theatre Festival) twice and has been invited to perform at the Kennedy Center, in 1983 with Zooman and the Sign and in 1999 with David Richmond. Students in the program have won regional and national Irene Ryan acting competitions. 

Frankie Day Greenlee is theatre arts program chair and Miller Lucky Jr., is executive director of the Paul Robeson Theatre.