The Department of Music, Theatre and Dance of Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan, surprised me this year with an Alumni Achievement Award in Theatre as part of its 18th annual MaTilDa Awards honoring “outstanding contributions from music, theater and dance students, alumni and distinguished community members.” The honor, being presented on campus April 18, is for my … Read Full Article→
Lamb Theatre, the major non-Equity professional theatre in western Iowa, will launch its 38th season in fall 2017 with the state premiere of Alabama Story, the fact-inspired play about censorship, civil rights and children’s literature. The production will coincide with the nationally recognized Banned Books Week, an apt scheduling choice since the play by Kenneth … Read Full Article→
A family’s journey toward wholeness in a household that includes a mermaid-obsessed transgender child is at the heart of Everything That’s Beautiful, a new play by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, getting its world premiere by San Francisco’s New Conservatory Theatre Center. Performances began March 17 for a run through April 23.
NCTC founder and artistic director … Read Full Article→
The Southeastern premiere of Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones will be presented by the Clarence Brown Theatre, the resident Equity company of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in January 2018. Kate Buckley will direct the social-justice drama set in “the Deep South of the imagination” and charting the real-life conflict between a fierce “lady librarian” and … Read Full Article→
The Co-Op of Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, CA, is presenting a workshop run of Kenneth Jones’ family dramedy Two Henrys Oct. 27-Nov. 13. Ann Bronston directs a cast featuring Lesley Fera, Suzanne Ford and Ned Mochel. The play is “set somewhere between the dusk of the worst days of the AIDS crisis and the dawn of … Read Full Article→
The 2016-17 Play-By-Play Reading Series by Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City will feature Requiem for August Moon by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, i by Jeff Talbott and The Ice Front by Utah playwright Eric Samuelsen. The fourth season of public readings, with playwrights in residence for a 29-hour rehearsal process toward a three-performance reading run … Read Full Article→
Alabama Story, the acclaimed historical drama by Michigan-bred playwright Kenneth Jones, will make its Wolverine State premiere Sept. 22-Oct. 9 in a staging by The Theatre Company of the University of Detroit Mercy, the lauded troupe that for 45 seasons has mixed students and professionals in award-winning hybrid-cast productions. The author will be in residence for … Read Full Article→
