Hollywood, Nebraska, the six-actor comedy by Kenneth Jones about two actresses who return to their remote hometown to deal with separate family emergencies, is now published and licensed by Dramatists Play Service, the same Concord Theatricals imprint that handles the playwright’s breakout play Alabama Story. The new play, which is reminiscent of Broadway Bound, Steel … Read Full Article→
Everybody knows Reggie. She’s the beloved TV talk show host whose warm personality, down-to-earth wisdom and insightful guests have made her program a daytime sensation. But at home, things are less sensational, particularly with her troubled son. That’s a primary tension in Greg Jones Ellis’ intriguing new drama Dead Air, getting its world premiere May 29-June … Read Full Article→
Tennessee Williams Drank Here, Kenneth Jones’ six-character drama about the clash of three generations of Mississippi restaurateurs, gets its latest developmental step April 30 in Florida Repertory Theatre’s 2026 PlayLab Festival of New Works, in Fort Myers, FL. Associate artistic director and PlayLab curator Jason Parrish directs a cast of resident Florida actors. The weekend … Read Full Article→
Jerry Herman, the Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist of La Cage aux Folles, Mame, Mack and Mabel, The Grand Tour, Dear World and Hello, Dolly!, died in 2019. Here’s a reprint of my 2008 interview with Herman about his first Broadway musical, 1961’s Milk and Honey — the show that came before Hello, Dolly!
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Is there such a thing as an actual good deed? Or even a good person? These and more questions about tests of character are asked in Samaritans, the new three-character play by Jeff Talbott getting a staged reading March 2. It’s the last of five plays in Ground UP Productions’ 2026 New Works Winter Reading Festival. The … Read Full Article→
Ground UP Productions will add “Academy Award winner” to its roster of playwrights who’ve benefited from staged readings in the company’s annual New Works Winter Reading Festival. Ernest Thompson — who took home the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film of his play On Golden Pond — wrote, directed and stars in a Feb. 23 reading … Read Full Article→
Enid Graham is such a fixture as a New York City-based actress and playwright that I sometimes forget she has roots in Texas. The alumna of the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Program at Juilliard isn’t exactly hiding her heritage: She has no fewer than three Texas-set plays, including her latest, the four-character Saint Vegas, getting a Feb. 16 … Read Full Article→
