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Sunday, April 15, 2018

Family Tragedy Inspires Kelli Colaco’s Folk Drama “you are my sunshine” in San Francisco by Kenneth Jones

Kelli Kerslake Colaco’s fact-inspired crime drama with folk songs, you are my sunshine, will get a six-performance Equity developmental staging in San Francisco by Alma Theatre Company Apr…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 05:05PM
Thursday, March 1, 2018

“Alabama Story,” Ripe With American Themes, Gets Washington, DC Premiere March 22-April 15 by Kenneth Jones

A true story of censorship and Civil Rights will leap from the pages of history and into its Washington, DC premiere in Washington Stage Guild’s production of Kenneth Jones’ six-actor pl…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:18PM
Monday, February 26, 2018

“Alabama Story” To Play Repertory Theatre of St. Louis in 2019; Paul Mason Barnes Directs by Kenneth Jones

Repertory Theatre of St. Louis will produce Kenneth Jones’ censorship-and-social-justice drama Alabama Story in January 2019, marking the 60th anniversary of the real-life controversy that…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:56PM
Saturday, February 10, 2018

“The Gravedigger’s Lullaby,” Jeff Talbott’s Gritty Drama, Published and Available for Licensing by Kenneth Jones

Jeff Talbott’s The Gravedigger’s Lullaby, the new four-actor drama about hardscrabble lives and an opportunity to crawl out of the dirt, has been published by Dramatic Publishing and is…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:04PM
Saturday, January 13, 2018

Playwright Shelley McPherson Takes a Stab a Theatrical Workplace Harassment in “Knifeplay” by Kenneth Jones

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 …

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:24PM
Monday, January 1, 2018

Cast and Creatives Announced for World Premiere of Jeff Talbott’s “i” at Pioneer Theatre Co. by Kenneth Jones

Colleen Baum, Todd Gearhart, Kathleen McElfresh and Nafeesa Monroe will populate Pioneer Theatre Company’s world-premiere production of Jeff Talbott’s drama i in Salt Lake City. PTC arti…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:34PM
Monday, December 11, 2017

“Alabama Story” Will Get Its Alabama Premiere in Human Rights Festival in Birmingham by Kenneth Jones

Alabama Story, the six-actor play by Kenneth Jones that sheds a light on American character through the lens of the Deep South of the Civil Rights era, will get its Alabama debut — in Birm…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:52AM
Monday, November 27, 2017

“Alabama Story” Will Get Texas Premiere in Austin in 2018 by Kenneth Jones

Alabama Story, the six-actor drama by Kenneth Jones in which real and fictional characters leap off the history pages and into “the Deep South of the imagination,” will get its Texas pre…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:08AM
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Cast Announced for West Coast Premiere of “Alabama Story” at San Jose’s City Lights by Kenneth Jones

The West Coast premiere of Alabama Story, Kenneth Jones’ social-justice drama set in “the Deep South of the imagination,” will feature Karen DeHart, Erik Gandolfi, Bezachin Jifar, Stev…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:44AM
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Cast and Creatives Announced for Tennessee Premiere of “Alabama Story” by Kenneth Jones

David Brian Alley, Jade Arnold, Katie Cunningham, Chris Klopatek, Brian Mani and Brittany Pirozzoli will appear in the Southeastern premiere of Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones at the Clar…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:58PM
Thursday, November 2, 2017

“Born in a Tempest” Blows Fresh Wind Into the Sails of Shakespeare’s “Pericles” by Kenneth Jones

The nautical map of Shakespeare’s late-career seafaring adventure, Pericles, is getting revised this month Off-Broadway in an intimate five-actor production called Pericles: Born in a Temp…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:42PM
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Jack and Benny Lipson, Bohemian Musical Duo Known as jackbenny, Make NYC Debut at Duplex Nov. 9 by Kenneth Jones

The Los Angeles-based musical duo of Jack and Benny Lipson, twin brothers who write songs, make music and perform together and with friends as the band jackbenny, will make their New York Ci…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:05PM
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Pioneer Play-by-Play Series Gives Voice to Ellen Simon, Alex Lewin and Wendy Weiner in 2017-18 by Kenneth Jones

Pioneer Theatre Company’s fifth season of Play-by-Play, the series of new play readings mixing playwrights with resident and visiting guest actors and directors, begins Oct. 6-7 with a sta…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 05:14PM
Thursday, September 28, 2017

Strangers On a Plane: “Hazardous Materials,” a New Play by Kelli Colaco, Gets San Francisco Reading by Kenneth Jones

Kelli Kerslake Colaco’s new play Hazardous Materials — in which two strangers with Middle Eastern roots are seated together on a New York-bound airplane — will get a San Francisco read…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:59PM
Friday, September 15, 2017

“Alabama Story” Will Get Washington, D.C. Premiere in March 2018 by Kenneth Jones

A bullying politician and formidable lady librarian are going to clash in the nation’s capital in 2017-18. Washington Stage Guild, the resident DC company known for presenting “literate,…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:41PM
Thursday, August 17, 2017

Magic to Do: Daniel Zaitchik Talks About His New Romantic Musical “Darling Grenadine” by Kenneth Jones

Back in May 2015, when pop and theatre singer-songwriter Daniel Zaitchik was prepping his new romantic musical comedy Darling Grenadine for a concert reading in Los Angeles, he answered a …

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 06:08PM

Women Swing for the Fences in Gabrielle Sinclair’s Vassar-Set Baseball Play “The Resolute” by Kenneth Jones

Playwright Gabrielle Sinclair went rooting through the pages of Vassar College’s archives in preparation to write her new female-cast play, The Resolute, about the formation of a women’s…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:13PM
Friday, August 4, 2017

Marionettes Are Parents in Stephen Kaplan’s “A Real Boy,” a Tale of Puppets and Prejudice by Kenneth Jones

A kindergartner’s classroom behavior catches the eye of a meddling teacher in Stephen Kaplan’s A Real Boy, getting its world premiere at 59E59 Theaters in Manhattan. Turns out, young Max…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:39PM
Monday, July 31, 2017

Damon Runyon & Frank Loesser Are Together Again in Mark Saltzman’s New Musical “Another Roll of the Dice” by Kenneth Jones

Another Roll of the Dice, the new musical by librettist Mark Saltzman, might as well be called More Guys and Dolls. Like the beloved hit musical Guys and Dolls, it marries songs by Frank Loe…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:12PM
Sunday, July 30, 2017

Ben Strothmann Drags Out His Childhood Diaries in Solo Show Debut “Virtual Memory” by Kenneth Jones

You might know Ben Strothmann as a keen-eyed photographer, capturing the essence of performers for headshots, album covers and theatrical productions in New York City. Or you may know him fo…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:45AM
Monday, July 17, 2017

“Hollywood, Nebraska” Gets Workshop at 2017 Wyoming Theater Festival; Cast Announced by Kenneth Jones

Hollywood, Nebraska, the rueful comedy by Kenneth Jones about two fortysomething actresses who return to their small town for separate family emergencies, will be workshopped by Wyoming Thea…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:20PM
Friday, July 14, 2017

“Alabama Story” Will Have At Least Six Regional Productions in 2017-18 Season by Kenneth Jones

Kenneth Jones’ fact-inspired drama Alabama Story, the tale of a librarian persecuted by a politician in the Jim Crow South, will be produced by at least six regional theatres in the 2017-1…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:25PM

Charlotte Ahlin’s “The Summoning,” Mixing College Co-Eds and Occult-Flirting, Conjured in NYC July 14-15 by Kenneth Jones

The Summoning, playwright Charlotte Ahlin’s darkly comic new play about three college-age women toying with the occult as they stand on the brink of adulthood, gets a staging in SheNYC S…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:38AM
Monday, May 15, 2017

2017 NewTACTics Playwrights Are Enid Graham, Patricia Cotter, Adi Hanash, Patrick Vassel, Scott Alan Evans, Jeffrey Couchman by Kenneth Jones

NewTACTics, the new play reading series by Off-Broadway’s TACT/The Actors Company Theatre, will welcome four plays and six playwrights into its seventh annual New Play Festival June 7-29. …

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:26PM
Friday, May 12, 2017

Alex Webb’s Two-Actor Civil War Drama, “Amelia,” Is Published By Samuel French by Kenneth Jones

Amelia, the gritty Civil War-set romance by Alex Webb that maps the journey of a young wife who disguises herself as a man and goes behind enemy lines to find her Union Army husband, is now …

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:58PM
Thursday, April 20, 2017

“Alabama Story” Will Get Its California Premiere in 2018 by Kenneth Jones

City Lights Theater Company, the resident professional theater in San Jose, CA, will produce the West Coast premiere of Kenneth Jones’ six-actor drama Alabama Story, introducing California…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:16PM
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Oakland University’s Theatre Program Honors Alumni Kenneth Jones for Playwriting by Kenneth Jones

The Department of Music, Theatre and Dance of Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan, surprised me this year with an Alumni Achievement Award in Theatre as part of its 18th annual M…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:16AM
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

“Alabama Story” Will Get Iowa Premiere in Fall 2017; Censorship Play Coincides With Banned Books Week by Kenneth Jones

Lamb Theatre, the major non-Equity professional theatre in western Iowa, will launch its 38th season in fall 2017 with the state premiere of Alabama Story, the fact-inspired play about censo…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:45PM
Saturday, March 25, 2017

Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder’s “Everything That’s Beautiful” Makes a Splash in San Francisco World Premiere by Kenneth Jones

A family’s journey toward wholeness in a household that includes a mermaid-obsessed transgender child is at the heart of Everything That’s Beautiful, a new play by Elyzabeth Gregory Wild…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:55PM
Sunday, March 19, 2017

“Alabama Story” To Get Tennessee Premiere in 2018 at Clarence Brown Theatre by Kenneth Jones

The Southeastern premiere of Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones will be presented by the Clarence Brown Theatre, the resident Equity company of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in Januar…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:14PM
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

“Alabama Story” Will Get Western Massachusetts Premiere in 2018   by Kenneth Jones

Majestic Theater, the resident Equity company in Western Massachusetts, will present the area premiere of Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones in early 2018. West Springfield, MA, will get to expe…

SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:26PM

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