Saturday, October 26, 2024
“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 — als…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:24PMFriday, September 27, 2024
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. Ghos…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 04:13PMTuesday, August 13, 2024
“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 …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 02:17PMMonday, July 22, 2024
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 …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 12:07AMSunday, June 30, 2024
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 …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:11PMSunday, June 23, 2024
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 …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:38PMWednesday, April 24, 2024
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:35PMFriday, February 23, 2024
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 script…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 04:08PMMonday, February 12, 2024
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 seekin…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 10:14AMTuesday, January 30, 2024
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�…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:57PMWednesday, January 10, 2024
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 K…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 10:29PMSunday, December 17, 2023
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 …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:32PMSunday, 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 08:21PM 
