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 03:19PMThe 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 03:18PMOut 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 01:01PMPulitzer 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 02:47PMPlaywright 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 05:28PMAlabama 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 10:44PMEmerson 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 12:56PMHumor 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 12:09PMThe 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 01:22PMGreat Plains Theatre, the professional Equity company in Abilene, Kansas, will stage Kenneth Jones’ six-actor social justice drama Alabama Story in spring 2020, introducing Sunflower State…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 06:30PMPlaywright Victor Lesniewski draws on his tech background — an engineering degree and a job in network security and cryptography — for his new play, The Fifth Domain, which is enjoying d…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:05PMOne of the extraordinary experiences that I had during the launch of my play Alabama Story at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis in early January was experiencing a juried art exhibit of works t…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:45PMTony Award nominee Jeanne Paulsen will play a formidable librarian in the crosshairs of a bullying politician played by Carl Palmer in Repertory Theatre of St. Louis’ new production of Ken…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:51PMIowa Stage Theatre Company, the resident professional theater in Des Moines, has added the six-actor drama Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones to its 2018-19 Scriptease series of concert readings…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:02PMRed Mountain Theatre Company in Birmingham, Alabama, will continue its commitment to new works in spring 2019 with a developmental production of Kenneth Jones’ Florida-set, three-character…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 05:17PMAlma Theatre Company in California’s Bay Area will present Kenneth Jones’ six-actor comedy-drama Hollywood, Nebraska, about two actresses coincidentally returning to their rural hometow…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:21AMCreative people whose heyday was yesteryear struggle with desires, secrets and their very existence as they reach middle age in All Save One, a new award-winning comedy-drama by Greg Jones E…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:39PMLife is a little sweeter because of the catalog of albums released over the years by PS Classics, the indie label devoted to the heritage of musical theater and the American Songbook. If you…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:15PMAlabama Shakespeare Festival resurrects its longtime new play development program Oct. 19-21, 2018, replacing the past name, Southern Writers Project, with Southern Writers Festival of New P…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:47PMPremiere Stages, the resident professional theater at Kean University in New Jersey, continues its commitment to new American plays with the world premiere of Martin Casella’s historical d…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 05:30PMAn immigrant art teacher in Utah becomes a target of conservative parents and administrators in a complicated rural landscape of children at risk, substance abuse, religious intolerance and …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 07:15PMThe Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, PEN America and Butler University’s theater department are partnering to present a one-night-only staged reading of Kenneth Jones’ fact-inspired cen…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:32PMAlma Theatre Company in California’s Bay Area is launching its Fresh, Raw and Wild New Play Reading Series with Enid Graham’s ensemble drama What Martha Did Sept. 15 at Phoenix Theatre I…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:46PMWyoming Theater Festival, the not-for-profit company devoted to producing workshop productions of new plays and musicals in the quiet of the High Plains, far from commercial pressures, wi…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 05:27PMShe Calls Me Firefly, the new play by Teresa Lotz in which painful memories buzz through the air like insects seeking a lamp, gets its world premiere June 6-23, 2018, at Off-Broadway’s SoH…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:47PMAlabama Story will make its Ohio premiere by opening the 39th season of Ensemble Theatre, the ambitious indie company in Cleveland Heights known for its commitment to modern classics — li…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:45PMA young barkeep gets late-night advice (and a hard-to-refuse offer) from a world-weary drinker in Now and Then, the new four-actor romance by Sean Grennan that will have its world premiere b…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:28PMThis week marks a publishing milestone related to one of the more colorful and ugly footnotes in a cross-section of American subjects, from children’s literature to civil rights to censors…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 07:29PMUnder This Roof, Barbara Kingsley’s drama of unexpected connections in the racially divided Cleveland of the late 1940s, gets its world premiere May 4-20 in a Minnesota production by Full…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:08PMCivics and Humanities for Non-Majors, the new play by Jeff Talbott teeming with college-age characters trying to form student organizations in two eras, in 1976 and 2016, gets its world prem…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 07:40PMKelli 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…
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