Saturday, February 10, 2018
Jeff Talbott’s The Gravedigger’s Lullaby, the new four-actor drama about hardscrabble lives and an opportunity to crawl out of the dirt, has been published by Dramatic Publishing and is…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:04PMSaturday, January 13, 2018
Workplace harassment is center stage — literally — in Shelley McPherson’s timely new backstage drama Knifeplay, getting a reading Jan. 13 in Boomerang Theatre Company’s First Flight …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:24PMMonday, January 1, 2018
Colleen Baum, Todd Gearhart, Kathleen McElfresh and Nafeesa Monroe will populate Pioneer Theatre Company’s world-premiere production of Jeff Talbott’s drama i in Salt Lake City. PTC arti…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:34PMMonday, December 11, 2017
Alabama Story, the six-actor play by Kenneth Jones that sheds a light on American character through the lens of the Deep South of the Civil Rights era, will get its Alabama debut — in Birm…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:52AMMonday, November 27, 2017
Alabama Story, the six-actor drama by Kenneth Jones in which real and fictional characters leap off the history pages and into “the Deep South of the imagination,” will get its Texas pre…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:08AMWednesday, November 22, 2017
The West Coast premiere of Alabama Story, Kenneth Jones’ social-justice drama set in “the Deep South of the imagination,” will feature Karen DeHart, Erik Gandolfi, Bezachin Jifar, Stev…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:44AMWednesday, November 8, 2017
David Brian Alley, Jade Arnold, Katie Cunningham, Chris Klopatek, Brian Mani and Brittany Pirozzoli will appear in the Southeastern premiere of Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones at the Clar…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:58PMThursday, November 2, 2017
The nautical map of Shakespeare’s late-career seafaring adventure, Pericles, is getting revised this month Off-Broadway in an intimate five-actor production called Pericles: Born in a Temp…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:42PMThursday, October 26, 2017
The Los Angeles-based musical duo of Jack and Benny Lipson, twin brothers who write songs, make music and perform together and with friends as the band jackbenny, will make their New York Ci…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:05PMTuesday, October 3, 2017
Pioneer Theatre Company’s fifth season of Play-by-Play, the series of new play readings mixing playwrights with resident and visiting guest actors and directors, begins Oct. 6-7 with a sta…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 05:14PMThursday, September 28, 2017
Kelli Kerslake Colaco’s new play Hazardous Materials — in which two strangers with Middle Eastern roots are seated together on a New York-bound airplane — will get a San Francisco read…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:59PMFriday, September 15, 2017
A bullying politician and formidable lady librarian are going to clash in the nation’s capital in 2017-18. Washington Stage Guild, the resident DC company known for presenting “literate,…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:41PMThursday, August 17, 2017
Back in May 2015, when pop and theatre singer-songwriter Daniel Zaitchik was prepping his new romantic musical comedy Darling Grenadine for a concert reading in Los Angeles, he answered a …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 06:08PMPlaywright Gabrielle Sinclair went rooting through the pages of Vassar College’s archives in preparation to write her new female-cast play, The Resolute, about the formation of a women’s…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:13PMFriday, August 4, 2017
A kindergartner’s classroom behavior catches the eye of a meddling teacher in Stephen Kaplan’s A Real Boy, getting its world premiere at 59E59 Theaters in Manhattan. Turns out, young Max…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:39PMMonday, July 31, 2017
Another Roll of the Dice, the new musical by librettist Mark Saltzman, might as well be called More Guys and Dolls. Like the beloved hit musical Guys and Dolls, it marries songs by Frank Loe…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:12PMSunday, July 30, 2017
You might know Ben Strothmann as a keen-eyed photographer, capturing the essence of performers for headshots, album covers and theatrical productions in New York City. Or you may know him fo…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:45AMMonday, July 17, 2017
Hollywood, Nebraska, the rueful comedy by Kenneth Jones about two fortysomething actresses who return to their small town for separate family emergencies, will be workshopped by Wyoming Thea…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:20PMFriday, July 14, 2017
Kenneth Jones’ fact-inspired drama Alabama Story, the tale of a librarian persecuted by a politician in the Jim Crow South, will be produced by at least six regional theatres in the 2017-1…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:25PMThe Summoning, playwright Charlotte Ahlin’s darkly comic new play about three college-age women toying with the occult as they stand on the brink of adulthood, gets a staging in SheNYC S…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:38AMMonday, May 15, 2017
NewTACTics, the new play reading series by Off-Broadway’s TACT/The Actors Company Theatre, will welcome four plays and six playwrights into its seventh annual New Play Festival June 7-29. …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:26PMFriday, May 12, 2017
Amelia, the gritty Civil War-set romance by Alex Webb that maps the journey of a young wife who disguises herself as a man and goes behind enemy lines to find her Union Army husband, is now …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:58PMThursday, April 20, 2017
City Lights Theater Company, the resident professional theater in San Jose, CA, will produce the West Coast premiere of Kenneth Jones’ six-actor drama Alabama Story, introducing California…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:16PMTuesday, April 18, 2017
The Department of Music, Theatre and Dance of Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan, surprised me this year with an Alumni Achievement Award in Theatre as part of its 18th annual M…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:16AMTuesday, March 28, 2017
Lamb Theatre, the major non-Equity professional theatre in western Iowa, will launch its 38th season in fall 2017 with the state premiere of Alabama Story, the fact-inspired play about censo…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:45PMSaturday, March 25, 2017
A family’s journey toward wholeness in a household that includes a mermaid-obsessed transgender child is at the heart of Everything That’s Beautiful, a new play by Elyzabeth Gregory Wild…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:55PMSunday, March 19, 2017
The Southeastern premiere of Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones will be presented by the Clarence Brown Theatre, the resident Equity company of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in Januar…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:14PMWednesday, March 15, 2017
Majestic Theater, the resident Equity company in Western Massachusetts, will present the area premiere of Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones in early 2018. West Springfield, MA, will get to expe…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:26PMMonday, February 20, 2017
The scandal of marrying out of your faith — Catholic girl loves Protestant boy! — is at the heart of a new charm-bomb comedy called Divinity Place, one of the recently added titles to th…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:49AMThursday, February 2, 2017
Hudson Stage Company’s Feb. 10 reading of Kenneth Jones’ three-character family drama Two Henrys will feature HSC veteran Susan Pellegrino as grieving Florida matriarch Constance, who is…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:45PMTuesday, January 31, 2017
Jeremy Beck, Ted Koch, Todd Lawson and K.K. Moggie populate a bleak landscape flecked with hope in the world premiere of Jeff Talbott’s new play The Gravedigger’s Lullaby directed by …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:03AM 
