When I saw Michelle Kholos Brooks’ new play Room 1214 in a staged reading at Florida Repertory Theatre in spring 2024, I called it “a conjuring.” After experiencing the world premiere …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 10:53AM“Two comedians in recovery walk into a theater.” That sounds like the start of a dubious joke, but it’s exactly where collaborating playwrights Spike Manton and Harry Teinowitz — als…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:24PMAlabama 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. Ghos…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 04:13PM“No man is an island,” or so the poet John Donne wrote. But in Carey Crim’s new play, The Islanders, next-door neighbors Anna and Dutch are very happy to be their own islands, keeping …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 02:17PMHollywood, Nebraska, the six-actor comedy by Kenneth Jones about two actresses who return to their remote hometown to deal with separate family emergencies, is now published and licensed by …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 12:07AMPlaywright Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder went home again this summer — in more ways than one. The Alabama native known for her association with Alabama Shakespeare Festival and their premieres …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:11PMI’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 …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:38PMIn her new play Funny, Like an Abortion, playwright Rachel Bublitz is tackling a topic so in flux that she puts index cards in the hands of actors to convey the twists of current events. The…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:35PMActors often have side hustles, from waiting tables to word processing, but rarely are their performance skills so utilized as when they become “standardized patients,” presenting script…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 04:08PMThe set for Kenneth Jones’ new comedy, Ten Minutes On a Bench, couldn’t be simpler: It’s a park bench. In the 13-scene play, that bench becomes a perch for 27 characters who are seekin…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 10:14AMThe indie Manhattan company Ground UP Productions will present four new plays in its winter 2024 staged reading series on four Mondays in February. The playwrights and plays are Dianne Nora�…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:57PMFlorida’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 K…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 10:29PMThere’s a delightful new holiday distraction in store for fans of radio plays, theater and the stories of Damon Runyon. In fall 2023, Hear Play Audio Theatre released the audio play Three …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:32PMJan Lucas has carved out a beautiful career acting on stages around the country, primarily in Chicago and Indianapolis. I was lucky to meet her when she was cast in a developmental reading …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 06:43PMTen Minutes on a Bench, a new comedy about series of first dates arranged through a fictional app that places potential partners on a park bench to meet for a restricted amount of time, gets…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 09:57AMSouth Camden Theatre Company gives Alabama Story its New Jersey premiere Sept. 15-Oct. 1, 2023. Kenneth Jones’ play based on the true story the persecuted state librarian of Alabama is get…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 12:44PMChristine Toy Johnson’s play The Secret Wisdom of Trees, about a woman’s need to map her past as she faces a future with Alzheimer’s disease, will get a fresh developmental step in a …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:04PMAlabama Story, the fact-inspired censorship drama about a state senator who rattles the shelves of a librarian who protects a children’s picture book, will make its Huntsville, Alabama bow…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:43AMI’m writing this on June 25, 2023. It’s Pride Day in New York City. Every LGBTQ+ person is on their own journey. The path is rarely easy. The destination is rewarding. Chosen family can …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 12:53PMHollywood, Nebraska, the rueful comedy about show people, small towns and coming home, will get a unique presentation in Canada by Naked Stage Readers Theatre, a company known for its barebo…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 03:56PMVery Little Theatre, one of the oldest community theaters on the West Coast, will give Alabama Story its Oregon premiere in spring 2024 as part of a seven-title season on two stages. Stanley…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 10:30PMTwo couples who are best friends and neighbors are on the brink of conflict. Herman is facing challenges. His pal Lou just got a huge opportunity. There’s the rub of Imbroglio, a play by M…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 10:50AMEbony Road Players, the only Black theater company in Grand Rapids, is presenting the west Michigan premiere of Kenneth Jones’ social justice drama Alabama Story — about interracial marr…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:49PMPlays by Matthew Ivan Bennett, Kaaron Briscoe and Catherine Trieschmann will be presented in staged readings in Pioneer Theatre Company’s spring 2023 Play-by-Play Festival of new works in…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 07:16PMA facts-only astrophysicist at life’s crossroads is challenged to view a celestial phenomenon in a new way in the world premiere of Sean Grennan’s new dramatic comedy A Rock Sails By, ge…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 12:54PMFamily history often provides inspiration for playwrights, as actor-playwright Jenny Mercein knows too well. For her past plays, she has borrowed from her own easily accessible personal hist…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 12:09AMAmy Baldwin and Matthew Scott Campbell will face off as ideological foes in the West Virginia premiere of Kenneth Jones’ highly theatrical Alabama Story, playing Greenbrier Valley Theatre …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:55PMOnce upon a time there was a children’s picture book, “The Rabbits’ Wedding,” about a bunny with white fur who marries a bunny with black fur. Written and illustrated by Garth Willia…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 12:09PMThe Schoolhouse Theater, the resident Equity theater company that has produced classic and new works in Westchester County, New York since 1986, relights as a live performance venue this spr…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 02:32PMNew scripts that explore Southern identity will be presented in staged readings in the 2023 Southern Writers Festival of New Plays at Alabama Shakespeare Festival March 17-18 in Montgomery, …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 04:00PMAt a women’s wellness retreat run by an unseen male guru, cloistered attendees Lois, Toni, Maria and Aditi meet, share housing, chafe, bond and ask questions of themselves and the world in…
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