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Ground UP’s 2025 Winter Series Has Plays by Kenneth Jones, Shelley McPherson, Jordan Reeves, Alex Webb

Ground UP’s 2025 Winter Series Has Plays by Kenneth Jones, Shelley McPherson, Jordan Reeves, Alex Webb

Jan 12, 2025

Ground UP Productions, the independent Off-Broadway company, announced plays by Shelley McPherson, Alex Webb, Jordan Reeves and Kenneth Jones for its Winter 2025 New Works Reading Series, running consecutive Mondays Feb. 17, Feb. 24, March 3 and March 10.

Performers will be announced, said Ground UP artistic director Kate Middleton. The series is free and open … Read Full Article→

Playwright Shelley McPherson Takes a Stab at Theatrical Workplace Harassment in “Knifeplay”

Playwright Shelley McPherson Takes a Stab at Theatrical Workplace Harassment in “Knifeplay”

Jan 13, 2018

Workplace harassment is center stage — literally — in Shelley McPherson’s timely new backstage drama Knifeplay, getting a reading Jan. 13 in Boomerang Theatre Company’s First Flight Reading Series in Manhattan. An actress in a Broadway revival finds herself dealing with unsafe conditions when her co-star brings a knife to rehearsal. Power, ego, money, production … Read Full Article→