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→
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→
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→
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→
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→
Family history often provides inspiration for playwrights, as actor-playwright Jenny Mercein knows too well. For her past plays, she has borrowed from her own easily accessible personal history. But for her new solo show, Two Elizas, she stumbled on a deeply buried story from her bloodline — a U.S. Supreme Court case involving a 19th-century relative’s efforts … Read Full Article→
