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Actors Theatre of Indiana Develops “Hollywood, Nebraska,” “Rattler” and “Provenance” in New Lab Series

Actors Theatre of Indiana Develops “Hollywood, Nebraska,” “Rattler” and “Provenance” in New Lab Series

Kenneth Jones’ rueful six-actor comedy Hollywood, Nebraska will launch the first Lab Series of new play readings at Actors Theatre of Indiana in Carmel, IN, in November 2019. Playwrights Lindsay Adams of Kansas City, MO, and Ethan Mathias of Fishers, IN, will also see their new plays — Rattler and Provenance, respectively — get developmental staged … Read Full Article→

Brian James Polak Reconsiders Wilder’s New England in “Welcome to Keene, NH,” Premiering in 2020

Brian James Polak Reconsiders Wilder’s New England in “Welcome to Keene, NH,” Premiering in 2020

If you care about playwriting, you probably listen — or you should be listening — to the valuable podcast called “The Subtext,” hosted by Chicago-based playwright Brian James Polak, who asks dramatists and other theater makers smart questions about their backgrounds, processes, goals and strategies. In spring 2020, Polak’s new play Welcome to Keene, New Hampshire, … Read Full Article→

Jon Marans’ “home sick,” Story of Family, Trauma and Memory, Gets Bay Area Reading April 27

Jon Marans’ “home sick,” Story of Family, Trauma and Memory, Gets Bay Area Reading April 27

Pulitzer Prize finalist Jon Marans’ new four-character play home sick – an American haunting is the latest script getting developed in Alma Theatre Company’s Fresh, Raw and Wild Equity Staged Reading Series in San Francisco. Cristina Anselmo directs the drama of reunited sisters confronting the truth of their childhood memories.

Marans was a 1996 Pulitzer Prize finalist … Read Full Article→

Tira Palmquist’s “The Way North,” a Play of Police, Poetry, Race and Responsibility, Gets Pioneer Theatre Reading

Tira Palmquist’s “The Way North,” a Play of Police, Poetry, Race and Responsibility, Gets Pioneer Theatre Reading

Playwright Tira Palmquist explores tough choices — personal and professional — made by law enforcement officers in her new four-character play The Way North, which is getting a development opportunity in Pioneer Theatre Company’s Play-by-Play New Play Reading Series April 19-20, 2019. Three public staged reading performances are planned at the Babcock Theatre on the campus of … Read Full Article→