Sunday, November 19, 2023
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 reading …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 06:43PMThursday, September 28, 2023
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 09:57AMFriday, September 15, 2023
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 get…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 12:44PMThursday, July 13, 2023
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 …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:04PMSunday, July 9, 2023
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:43AMSunday, June 25, 2023
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 …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 12:53PMFriday, June 23, 2023
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 03:56PMWednesday, June 21, 2023
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 10:30PMMonday, June 19, 2023
Two 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 10:50AMThursday, June 8, 2023
Ebony 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 01:49PMTuesday, May 23, 2023
Plays 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 07:16PMSunday, May 21, 2023
A 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 12:54PMThursday, May 4, 2023
Family 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 12:09AMTuesday, April 25, 2023
Amy 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 01:55PMThursday, April 20, 2023
Once 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 12:09PMMonday, April 10, 2023
The 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 02:32PMWednesday, March 15, 2023
New 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 04:00PMFriday, February 3, 2023
At 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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 03:48PMTuesday, January 17, 2023
Peninsula Players is famous in the Midwest for its summer productions in Door County, Wisconsin, but it’s not dormant all winter long. Plays are tested off-season, too. Titles in the compa…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 08:21PMMonday, December 26, 2022
Alabama Story, the true story of an embattled librarian persecuted for protecting children’s books in the Deep South of 1959, will make its West Virginia debut at Greenbrier Valley Theatre…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:15PMMonday, December 12, 2022
Hollywood, Nebraska, the six-actor comedy by Kenneth Jones that reunites two high school friends in their hometown in the Great Plains, will get its third production in a rolling world premi…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 10:33AMMonday, November 28, 2022
Alabama Story, Kenneth Jones’ fact-inspired play about an embattled librarian in the Civil Rights era, is now published in an Acting Edition from Dramatists Play Service, which also licens…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 03:44PMFriday, November 11, 2022
In spring 2022, I read a rueful, charming, tough-minded new play called Off Peak, about former lovers meeting on a train, and I knew immediately that I wanted to throw some questions at pla…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 04:13PMSunday, October 23, 2022
A fire that consumed three immigrant hatmakers in a notorious Ontario town more than a century ago has ignited the imagination of Canadian composer-lyricist Marek Norman, who turned their st…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:14PMWednesday, October 12, 2022
Years ago I did some work on an article I wanted to write about Jerry Herman’s five greatest show tunes. Y’know, one of those clickbait pieces where readers will either celebrate you or …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 12:05AMTuesday, June 7, 2022
Nearly 30 years of milestones in the lives of two pals who meet in middle school are centerstage in Jeffrey Lo’s heartfelt, charming comedy-drama Waiting for Next, finally getting its worl…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:59AMThursday, June 2, 2022
After a winter 2022 postponement due to COVID-era issues, Georgia Ensemble Theatre in Roswell, GA, will give Alabama Story — the six-actor, one-set drama about an embattled librarian in th…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:59AMSunday, May 1, 2022
Kenneth Jones’ six-actor comedy Hollywood, Nebraska — the story of two actresses returning to their dying hometown — will get at least three “rolling world premiere” productions by…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:34PMFriday, April 22, 2022
I just read a rueful, charming, tough new play called Off Peak, about former lovers meeting on a train, and I knew immediately that I wanted to throw some questions at playwright Brenda With…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:27PMThursday, April 21, 2022
Sean Blake, Judy Fitzgerald and Jan Lucas will be the trio of Midwestern snowbirds unpacking family secrets in a May 14 developmental staged reading of Kenneth Jones’ comedy-drama Two Henr…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:50PMSunday, March 20, 2022
“Ah, look at all the lonely people,” a line from Lennon and McCartney’s “Eleanor Rigby,” was on my mind when I read Stephen Kaplan’s quirky, sadness-tinged, four-actor comedy Tra…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:45PM 
