Pioneer Theatre Company’s tradition of world-premiere productions continues this winter with Ten Brave Seconds, a new pop musical by Will Van Dyke and Jeff Talbott, running Jan. 30–Feb. 14. Leading the show’s rueful, funny and fraught day in the life of a high schooler are Carson Stewart (Broadway’s The Notebook), John Cariani (Broadway’s The Band’s … Read Full Article→
Two Henrys, a three-character comedy-drama set at the dawn of marriage equality and the dusk of the worst days of the AIDS epidemic, will be explored in a spring staged reading as part of Actors Theatre of Indiana’s 2021-22 Lab Series in Carmel, IN. Richard J. Roberts will direct the May 14, 2022, presentation, representing the … 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→
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→
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→
