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Kenneth Jones is a New York City-based playwright, lyricist, librettist and theatre advocate. ByKennethJones.com is the official website about his creative work, but it also serves as a blog about new American plays and musicals, dramatists, theatre people, creative expression and events, and as an archive of some of his past reporting. His works for the stage include… continue→
Ebony Road Players, the only Black theater company in Grand Rapids, is presenting the west Michigan premiere of Kenneth Jones’ social justice drama Alabama Story — about interracial marriage, censorship and Civil Rights — as part of the company’s annual recognition of Loving Day, the national June 12 observance of the Supreme Court striking down all … Read Full Article→
A facts-only astrophysicist at life’s crossroads is challenged to view a celestial phenomenon in a new way in the world premiere of Sean Grennan’s new dramatic comedy A Rock Sails By, getting its world premiere by Wisconsin’s Peninsula Players June 13-July 2, 2023. An unknown object of possible alien origin is making a close call with … Read Full Article→
Alabama Story, playwright Kenneth Jones’ six-actor, one-set play inspired by real events that touch on censorship and Civil Rights issues in “the Deep South of the imagination,” had its world premiere in January 2015 by Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, UT. Artistic director Karen Azenberg directed the staging, which earned rave reviews, standing ovations and … Read Full Article→
Plays by Matthew Ivan Bennett, Kaaron Briscoe and Catherine Trieschmann will be presented in staged readings in Pioneer Theatre Company’s spring 2023 Play-by-Play Festival of new works in Salt Lake City. This is the ninth season of PTC’s series, created by artistic director Karen Azenberg.
The weekend of June 9-11, 2023, the company will offer Equity staged … Read Full Article→
Once upon a time there was a children’s picture book, “The Rabbits’ Wedding,” about a bunny with white fur who marries a bunny with black fur. Written and illustrated by Garth Williams, best known for his artwork for “Charlotte’s Web” and the “Little House” books, it was published in 1958 at the height of the Civil Rights … Read Full Article→
The Schoolhouse Theater, the resident Equity theater company that has produced classic and new works in Westchester County, New York since 1986, relights as a live performance venue this spring under new artistic director Owen Thompson. The worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the company to switch to a virtual performance platform 2020-22, during which … Read Full Article→
Alabama Story, Kenneth Jones’ fact-inspired play about an embattled librarian in the Civil Rights era, is now published in an Acting Edition from Dramatists Play Service, which also licenses the drama to theaters throughout the world. Six actors and one set are all that’s required to bring to life “the Deep South of the imagination” … Read Full Article→
