Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Cape May Stage in New Jersey will stream a virtual reading of Kenneth Jones’ three-actor, one-set play Two Henrys live on Facebook 7 PM June 18 in celebration of Pride Month as part of the…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:37PMFriday, May 8, 2020
The adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's classic tales opened at the Helen Hayes in 2001, and can be streamed though May 10 on composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's YouTube Channel The Shows Must Go On.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:32AMSunday, April 5, 2020
The epic musical, drawn from Irish history by the creators of Les Misérables and Riverdance, was directed by Frank Galati.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:37AMSunday, March 22, 2020
To mark the 80th birthday of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim in 2010, Playbill.com asked Broadway songwriters to do the impossible—pick their favorite songs by the master. A decade late…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PMThursday, February 20, 2020
Of the many gratifying experiences I’ve had witnessing the regional life of my play Alabama Story since 2015, I’m uniquely touched by the college and high school productions that have su…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:12PMThursday, February 6, 2020
Washington Stage Guild will give playwright Alex Webb a first-listen of his new six-actor comedy Beautiful Monster, about young aspiring novelist and gadabout George Bernard Shaw in the year…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:29PMFriday, January 31, 2020
The inaugural TheatreLab series of new plays developed in readings by Actors Theatre of Indiana continues Feb. 4 with the presentation of Lindsay Adams’ drama Rattler, about a support grou…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:25PMThursday, January 9, 2020
Alabama Shakespeare Festival has announced casting for its March 2020 production of Kenneth Jones’ six-actor social justice drama Alabama Story — the Montgomery premiere of the acclaimed…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:18PMAlabama Shakespeare Festival has announced casting for its March 2020 production of Kenneth Jones’ six-actor social justice drama Alabama Story — the Montgomery premiere of the acclaimed…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:18PMWednesday, January 1, 2020
Alabama Story, playwright Kenneth Jones’ six-actor, one-set play inspired by real events that touch on censorship and Civil Rights issues in “the Deep South of the imagination,” had i…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 07:21PMFriday, December 20, 2019
Alabama Story, the true tale of a librarian who was persecuted in the Deep South for her commitment to the freedom to read, will be produced by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and M…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:27PMSaturday, December 7, 2019
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, …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:16PMMonday, November 18, 2019
Cumberland County Playhouse will conjure “the Deep South of the imagination” in fall 2020 with a new Tennessee production of Alabama Story, the fact-inspired drama about a children’s b…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:36PMSunday, November 17, 2019
Playwright Enid Graham is enjoying a unique launch pad for her play, What Martha Did, in the University of California Santa Barbara program called, aptly, Launch Pad, which develops full pro…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:49AMTuesday, October 29, 2019
National artists and resident Hoosier actors assemble starting Nov. 1 in Carmel, Indiana, for rehearsals for Kenneth Jones’ new comedy Hollywood, Nebraska, the first public staged reading …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:38PMTuesday, October 8, 2019
TAG-The Actors’ Group, the indie professional company known for its commitment to staging contemporary plays in intimate productions in Hawaii, presents the state premiere of Jeff Talbott�…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:24AMWednesday, October 2, 2019
Actors Theatre of Indiana co-founders Cynthia Collins and Don Farrell will face off as foes in the Indiana premiere of Kenneth Jones’ six-actor social justice drama Alabama Story, the true…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 07:02PMActors Theatre of Indiana co-founders Cynthia Collins and Don Farrell face off as foes in the Indiana premiere of Kenneth Jones’ six-actor social justice drama Alabama Story, the true stor…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 07:02PMMonday, September 9, 2019
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 L…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:43PMThursday, September 5, 2019
The brilliant, brief candle that was U.K. theater director Mary Ann “Buzz” Goodbody — the first woman to direct at Royal Shakespeare Company — reignites in the world premiere product…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:49PMThursday, July 25, 2019
Seven years after it had its first developmental reading by Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery, Alabama Story, the highly theatrical drama that pits a state senator against the state…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:20AMThursday, July 11, 2019
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, …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:00PMMonday, July 1, 2019
The famously hawk-nosed actress Margaret Hamilton — best known as The Wicked Witch in the film “The Wizard of Oz,” but employed for decades as a treasured character actress — gets a …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:19PMMonday, May 20, 2019
The title word of Rachel Bublitz’s stark new three-character play, Ripped, has multiple meanings as it explores layers of truth about the sexual assault of a college student named Lucy. Th…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:18PMFriday, May 10, 2019
Out of Box Theatre, the Marietta, Georgia company devoted to contemporary plays and musicals in an intimate setting, is giving Jeff Talbott’s six-actor play A Public Education a full produ…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:01PMWednesday, April 17, 2019
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…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:47PMThursday, April 4, 2019
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 developme…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 05:28PMThursday, March 28, 2019
Alabama Story, the fact-inspired six-actor drama about an Indiana librarian who made international headlines when she stood up for the freedom to read in the segregated Deep South, will make…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:44PMThursday, February 21, 2019
Emerson Theater Collaborative, the boutique bicoastal company devoted to innovative, socially relevant and thought-provoking theater, is presenting a weekend run of Kenneth Jones’ six-acto…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:56PMTuesday, February 19, 2019
Humor is the unexpected thread that holds together compelling elements of sexual trauma, family memory, addiction and legacy in Steven Strafford’s arresting new ensemble play Small Jokes A…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:09PMFriday, February 8, 2019
The swirl of wind, the chaos of rain and the roar of thunder, all capricious elements of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, seem to inform the twisty, whimsical nature of Lila Rose Kaplan’s new …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:22PM 
