Florida Repertory Theatre’s 2025 PlayLab Festival of New Works will feature readings of new scripts by Jesse Corbin, Stacey Isom Campbell, Lindsay Joelle, Kenneth Jones and Samara Siskind. Staged readings will be presented May 1-4, 2025, in the Rep’s Historic Arcade Theatre in downtown Fort Myers, FL. The writers will be on campus for rehearsals with … Read Full Article→
Tennessee Williams Drank Here, a three-act drama by Kenneth Jones about a family of white restaurateurs clashing over their decades-old participation in racist practices at their Mississippi eatery, gets a Manhattan reading by Ground UP Productions March 3. Christa Scott-Reed directs the script-in-hand presentation, which will feature Carl Howell, Barbara Kingsley, Carolyn McCormick, Kate … Read Full Article→
Alabama Story, the drama that tells the true story of a librarian who was persecuted for protecting a children’s book in 1959, will get its Chicago premiere in apt venues: bookstores. Ghostlight Ensemble produces the storefront stagings Sept. 27-Oct. 20, first at After-Words Bookstore on East Illinois Street and then at Haymarket Books on West Buena Vista … Read Full Article→
I’m so lucky to have people in my corner to test and develop my new plays. Ground UP Productions, the indie New York City company run by artistic director Kate Middleton and fellow alumni of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present a reading of the latest draft of my new comedy Ten Minutes On … Read Full Article→
Florida’s Powerstories Theatre, the nonprofit professional theater devoted to “true stories to open minds and hearts and inspire action worldwide,” will present the Tampa premiere of Kenneth Jones’ fact-based censorship drama Alabama Story January 11-21, 2024, at the Straz Center’s Shimberg Playhouse. The production coincides with a time of heated debate about what books and curricula … Read Full Article→
