Kenneth Jones (BrianSillsPhotography.com)
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→
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 early 2024, the highly theatrical play will have been produced in more than 60 cities, introducing the world to … Read Full Article→
Jan Lucas has carved out a beautiful career acting on stages around the country, primarily in Chicago and Indianapolis. I was lucky to meet her when she was cast in a developmental reading of my grief-related family drama Two Henrys for Actors Theatre of Indiana in 2022. Little did I know then that the richness of her work … Read Full Article→
Ten Minutes on a Bench, a new comedy about series of first dates arranged through a fictional app that places potential partners on a park bench to meet for a restricted amount of time, gets its first public presentation Sept. 30, 2023, in an outdoor concert reading by the acclaimed University of Detroit Mercy’s Theatre Company. … Read Full Article→
Hollywood, Nebraska, the rueful comedy about show people, small towns and coming home, will get a unique presentation in Canada by Naked Stage Readers Theatre, a company known for its barebones concert stagings of scripts. Kenneth Jones’ six-actor play with music about two actresses returning to their hometown for separate family emergencies will surface Feb. … Read Full Article→
Christine Toy Johnson’s play The Secret Wisdom of Trees, about a woman’s need to map her past as she faces a future with Alzheimer’s disease, will get a fresh developmental step in a reading at Sarasota’s Florida Studio Theatre Aug. 11. Johnson will be on the FST campus for rehearsals with director Carolyn Michel.
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Very Little Theatre, one of the oldest community theaters on the West Coast, will give Alabama Story its Oregon premiere in spring 2024 as part of a seven-title season on two stages. Stanley Coleman will direct Kenneth Jones’ six-actor censorship drama about a librarian persecuted for protecting books in a politically divided “Deep South of the imagination” … Read Full Article→
Two couples who are best friends and neighbors are on the brink of conflict. Herman is facing challenges. His pal Lou just got a huge opportunity. There’s the rub of Imbroglio, a play by Melissa Maxwell getting its world premiere by Great River Shakespeare Festival June 21-July 30 in Winona, Minnesota, where Maxwell is an co-associate artistic … Read Full Article→
