New Broadway musical WANTED has announced their full cast arriving this fall to the James Earl Jones Theatre. See who will be joining Solea Pfeiffer and Liisi LaFontaine as sisters Mary and Martha Clarke in the soulful new m…
I first saw the kinetic, characterful Chip and Gus: A Comedy With Balls — about two men who boast, bicker and bond over a weekly table tennis game — in an extended run at the 2016 New Yo…
Urbanite Theatre, the intimate Sarasota, FL, company devoted to contemporary voices, will develop new plays by Stacey Isom Campbell, Mantra Radhakrishnan and Joz Vammer in its 2026 Mode…
The prismatic stream-of-consciousness narrative style of Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway has not made it easy to adapt for the stage. In the book, there’s a flui…
Living Room Theatre, the experiment-friendly New York and Vermont-based company that presents works in unique environments with boldly realized direction, premieres The Tyrant Play, written …
Hut, Hut, Hike, my new college-set four-character play about a playwriting student charged with tutoring a star quarterback who is flunking a theater class, will get two staged readings in S…
Hollywood, Nebraska, my six-actor comedy about two actresses who return to their remote hometown on family business, will get its Colorado premiere in a 2027 staging by Firehouse Theater Co…
Everybody knows Reggie. She’s the beloved TV talk show host whose warm personality, down-to-earth wisdom and insightful guests have made her program a daytime sensation. But at home, thing…
Tennessee Williams Drank Here, Kenneth Jones' six-character drama about the clash of three generations of Mississippi restaurateurs, gets its latest developmental step April 30 in Florida Re…
Jerry Herman, the Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist of La Cage aux Folles, Mame, Mack and Mabel, The Grand Tour, Dear World and Hello, Dolly!, died in 2019. Here's a reprint of my 2008 in…
Is there such a thing as an actual good deed? Or even a good person? These and more questions about tests of character are asked in Samaritans, the new three-character play by Jeff Tal…
Ground UP Productions will add "Academy Award winner" to its roster of playwrights who've benefited from staged readings in the company's annual New Works Winter Reading Festival. Ernest Tho…
Enid Graham is such a fixture as a New York City-based actress and playwright that I sometimes forget she has roots in Texas. The alumna of the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Program at Ju…
Conflicting memories of what happened to two sisters at the New Jersey home they grew up in punctuate Jon Marans' three-character play home sick, getting a staged reading in Ground UP Produc…
A family at odds over the estate of their late patriarch is at the center of Laura Darrell's new six-actor play The Will, getting a New York City staged reading Feb. 2 as the first of five n…
Off-Broadway's Ground UP Productions will spotlight plays by Laura Darrell, Enid Graham, Jon Marans, Jeff Talbott and On Golden Pond writer Ernest Thompson in its 2026 Winter Reading Series.…
Pioneer Theatre Company's tradition of world-premiere productions continues this winter with Ten Brave Seconds, a new pop musical by Will Van Dyke and Jeff Talbott, running Jan. 30"Feb. 14. …
Following its summer 2025 world premiere by Barrington Stage Company, the new musical fuzzy " the puppet-and-human-populated tale of a storyteller who goes home to care for his ailing mother…
In her new three-character drama 1999, playwright Stacey Isom Campbell fixes her lens on the Hollywood ambitions of female filmmakers in the era of #MeToo, when women were speaking out about…
The centuries-old ritual of the Passion Play " the theatrical depiction of the last days and resurrection of Jesus " has been a bonding force in communities since medieval days. In actor-pla…
From the hearts and minds of the songwriting team of Will Van Dyke and Jeff Talbott comes a new musical " with puppets! " called fuzzy, a title so adorable you'd guess it might be Barrington…
What if you were able to access the history, memories and essence of a dead loved one? Would you? Should you? The intriguing prospect of coming to terms with grief through new tech gives win…
Playwright Enid Graham isn't exactly tackling the small stuff in her new play, How to Save Ourselves, a commission from The Farm Theater and developed with a pair of college theater programs…
Why We Go to Florida, my three-character comedy-drama that reunites estranged chosen family members after the death of a patriarch, was presented in a staged reading May 1 in Florida Reperto…
Ground UP Productions, the indie Off-Broadway company known for presenting readings and eclectic productions in New York City, is taking its act on the road for a residency at The Foundry in…
Florida Repertory Theatre's 2025 PlayLab Festival of New Works will feature readings of new scripts by Jesse Corbin, Stacey Isom Campbell, Lindsay Joelle, Kenneth Jones and Samara Siskind. S…
Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre (MET) gives the censorship drama Alabama Story its Kansas City, MO, premiere April 9-13 in the intimate setting of The Simpson House, a three-story 1909 mansion…
Tennessee Williams Drank Here, a three-act drama by Kenneth Jones about a family of white restaurateurs clashing over their decades-old participation in racist practices at their Mississippi…
Ten Minutes On a Bench, my vignette comedy for a cast of eight or more, will be produced by the theater department of University of Wisconsin Milwaukee April 23-27, 2025. An ensemble of all-…
Ground UP Productions, the independent Off-Off-Broadway company, announced plays by Shelley McPherson, Alex Webb, Jordan Reeves and Kenneth Jones for its Winter 2025 New Works Reading Series…
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 of it …
"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 " also known …
Alabama 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. Ghostl…
"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 themse…
Hollywood, 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 …
Playwright 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 of…
I'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 of…
In 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…
Actors 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 scripted s…
The 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 seeking a lo…
The 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'…
Florida'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 Kenneth…
There'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 Wi…
Jan 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 readin…
Ten 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…
South 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 getti…
Christine 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 read…
Alabama 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 a…
I'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 be a…
Hollywood, 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…
Very 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…
