Peninsula Players is famous in the Midwest for its summer productions in Door County, Wisconsin, but it’s not dormant all winter long. Plays are tested off-season, too. Titles in the company’s 2023 winter reading series, dubbed The Play’s the Thing! — running February, March and April in Baileys Harbor, WI — will include Painted Desert by Christopher G. … Read Full Article→
Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member Ora Jones will create the role of Therese, the town doctor who sounds the alarm over a public health crisis, in the 2022 world premiere of Jeff Talbott’s The Messenger, a riff on Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People. At Pioneer Theatre Company in Utah, Wes Grantom directs a cast … Read Full Article→
Music Theatre of Connecticut launches New Voices — a non-musical pilot program that gives a spotlight to five contemporary plays by living authors in staged readings — Oct. 11 with Jeff Talbott’s mysterious relationship drama i. The 2021-22 series also includes the comedy Hollywood, Nebraska by Kenneth Jones, Oregon by Laura Darrell, Dirty Book by… Read Full Article→
The First Annual Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival welcomes playwrights, other theater practitioners, students and theatergoers from around country to shine a spotlight on new works suitable for college-age actors June 14-19 in the late playwright’s home state of Missouri. Five new plays — by Emily Bohannon, Lilly Camp, Rachel Graf Evans, Kevin Renn and Jeff Talbott … Read Full Article→
Henrik Ibsen’s classic 1882 play An Enemy of the People, about civic responsibility, greed, mob mentality and public health, gets a fresh spin in Jeff Talbott’s new drama The Messenger, to be developed in Pioneer Theatre Company’s Play-By-Play New Play Reading Series in March 2020. Wes Grantom will direct the staged reading in Salt … Read Full Article→
