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Kenneth Jones is a New York City-based playwright, lyricist, librettist and theater advocate. ByKennethJones.com is the official website about his creative work, but it also serves as a blog that amplifies new plays and musicals, dramatists, theater people, creative expression and events, and as an archive of some of his past reporting. His works for the stage include… continue→
Urbanite Theatre, the intimate Sarasota, FL, company devoted to contemporary voices, will develop new plays by Stacey Isom Campbell, Mantra Radhakrishnan and Joz Vammer in its 2026 Modern Works Festival Sept. 17-27. The festival includes a separate full staging of the solo work Tea TIME by Erika MacDonald and culminates in staged readings and author talkbacks Sept. … Read Full Article→
I first saw the kinetic, characterful Chip and Gus: A Comedy With Balls — about two men who boast, bicker and bond over a weekly table tennis game — in an extended run at the 2016 New York International Fringe Festival. This summer, the newly revised ping-pong play, co-written, co-directed and again featuring John Ahlin and Christopher … Read Full Article→
Hut, Hut, Hike, my new college-set four-character play about a playwriting student charged with tutoring a star quarterback who is flunking a theater class, will get two staged readings in September, launching a weekend of new work presentations in the Forestburgh Playhouse’s sixth annual In the Works~In the Woods Theatre Festival. Jeremy Webb will direct … Read Full Article→
The prismatic stream-of-consciousness narrative style of Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway has not made it easy to adapt for the stage. In the book, there’s a fluidity between the present and past of Clarissa, the titular upper class London hostess. In the fetching new play Dalloway: First Love — getting its rolling world premiere launch this … Read Full Article→
Hollywood, Nebraska, my six-actor comedy about two actresses who return to their remote hometown on family business, will get its Colorado premiere in a 2027 staging by Firehouse Theater Company in Denver. That’s the same theater that produced the intimate and well-reviewed Mile High premiere of my play Alabama Story in 2025.
The Colorado run is … Read Full Article→
The set for Kenneth Jones’ new romantic comedy Ten Minutes On a Bench couldn’t be simpler: It’s a park bench. In the 17-scene vignette play — available in versions with varied cast sizes and different scene options — that bench becomes a perch for more than 30 characters who are seeking a love match through the title … Read Full Article→
Alabama Story, playwright Kenneth Jones’ six-actor, one-set drama about censorship, book banning, Civil Rights and American character in “the Deep South of the imagination,” had its world premiere by Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, Utah. By 2026, the highly theatrical play will have been produced in more than 85 cities, introducing the world to the … Read Full Article→
