Tuesday, 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 12:03AMSunday, January 22, 2017
A new play called i, by Jeff Talbott, will be heard for the first time as part of Pioneer Theatre Company’s winter 2017 Play-by-Play new play reading series Jan. 27-28. The staged reading …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 08:39AMThursday, January 5, 2017
The Summoning, actor-playwright Charlotte Ahlin’s darkly comic new play about three college-age women flirting with the occult as they stand on the brink of adulthood, gets a developmental…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:51AMThursday, December 22, 2016
Hudson Stage Company, the resident Equity theatre that embraces contemporary plays and develops new works in Westchester County, NY, will give voice to Kenneth Jones’ family drama Two Henr…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 07:04PMThursday, December 15, 2016
It was still early in the 2016-17 Broadway season, during September previews of Holiday Inn, The New Irving Berlin Musical at Studio 54, that a musical number emerged as an instant classic o…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:50PMTuesday, December 6, 2016
Naughty/Nice, the musical comedy revue featuring four adult performers playing a multitude of twisted and desperate children writing letters to Santa Claus, begins its licensing life Dec. 9 …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:59AMMonday, December 5, 2016
Owen Thompson’s new play The Green, charting the machinations of a handful of U.S. soldiers at the end of the Vietnam War, will get a reading in The Workshop Theater’s Sundays@Six readin…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:37PMMonday, November 28, 2016
Another Night Before Christmas, a two-character holiday musical that premiered in America’s heartland and has been seen in nearly 20 productions around the country, gets its U.K. premiere …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:33PMTuesday, November 1, 2016
Kitty Dubin’s Rights of Passage, a grouping of shorts plays addressing momentous events in the lives of disparate Jewish characters, is getting its world premiere by JET — Jewish Ensembl…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:19PMTuesday, October 18, 2016
The Co-Op of Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, CA, is presenting a workshop run of Kenneth Jones’ family dramedy Two Henrys Oct. 27-Nov. 13. Ann Bronston directs a cast featuring Lesley …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:41PMThursday, October 13, 2016
The 2016-17 Play-By-Play Reading Series by Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City will feature Requiem for August Moon by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, i by Jeff Talbott and The Ice Front by …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:30PMWednesday, August 31, 2016
A Connecticut man has fled to the New Mexico desert following an unspeakable tragedy in Vincent Delaney’s drama Las Cruces, getting its world premiere Sept. 1-18 by Premiere Stages in Unio…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:02PMSunday, August 28, 2016
Under This Roof, Barbara Kingsley’s drama of unexpected connections in the racially divided Cleveland of the late 1940s, gets a reading by Penguin Rep in Stony Point, NY, Aug. 29 as part o…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:48PMMonday, August 22, 2016
Alabama Story, the acclaimed historical drama by Michigan-bred playwright Kenneth Jones, will make its Wolverine State premiere Sept. 22-Oct. 9 in a staging by The Theatre Company …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:48AMThursday, August 11, 2016
At The Flash, a new one-man, five-character play that charts seismic cultural changes in recent gay American history, gets its New York City premiere Aug. 13-24 as part of the 2016 New York
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SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:31AMMonday, August 8, 2016
The fluid give-and-take of energy between actors on stage is sometimes referred to as “ping pong,” but a new FringeNYC play is taking the idea literally. A ping pong table and a fast-pac…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:43PMWednesday, August 3, 2016
The cast of the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater production Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones gathers for the first time Aug. 3 in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, to begin building the East Coast prem…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:14AMThursday, July 28, 2016
Some of Chicago’s best actors will begin conjuring the Deep South in northern Wisconsin on July 28, when rehearsals begin for the Midwest premiere of Kenneth Jones’ Alabama Story. The…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 08:38AMWednesday, July 27, 2016
Mark Saltzman’s fact-inspired new play Alice Formerly of Wonderland: A Musical Story of the Real Alice is among titles in the 2016 Wyoming Theater Festival, a startup initiative now in it…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:13PMSaturday, July 16, 2016
Bess Wohl’s beguiling Small Mouth Sounds, a seriocomic ensemble play about broken city folk attending a silent wellness retreat in the country, was a spring 2015 hit at Ars Nova, where the…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:22PMMonday, July 11, 2016
Off-Broadway’s TACT/The Actors Company Theatre will present the world premiere of Jeff Talbott’s The Gravedigger’s Lullaby starting in February 2017 at the Beckett Theatre at Theatre R…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 05:17PMTuesday, June 28, 2016
Mr. Bigger’s Baby, Kate Robin’s serious comedy about the life of a family seen in the context of an ailing patriarch, gets two public reading presentations in Manhattan June 29-30 as the…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:12AMMonday, June 20, 2016
A group of close friends is shaken when one of their own decides to become the caregiver of his compromised father in Jeff Talbott’s How to Build a City, getting a 29-hour reading the week…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:34AMSunday, June 12, 2016
Playwright Kenneth Jones will map out his new serious comedy, Hollywood, Nebraska — about two actresses returning to their shared small-town roots for separate family emergencies — in a …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:28AMSaturday, June 11, 2016
Jeff Talbott’s new play Three Rules for the Dragon, about a law enforcement interrogator pulled between his gruesome work and his domestic life, is being investigated in rehearsals toward …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 05:23PMWednesday, June 8, 2016
A rising political figure. A cunning campaign manager. A complicated cop. A shrewd lawyer. A battered woman. All of them figure into Jeff Keilholtz’s new play, Bad Fiction, kicking off the…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:17AMThursday, June 2, 2016
Kenneth Jones’ new play Hollywood, Nebraska, a rueful comedy about two fortysomething actresses and former schoolmates returning to their small-town roots for separate family emergencies, …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:24PMSunday, May 15, 2016
Crowded Outlet, the new not-for-profit theatre organization committed to developing and producing the work of eclectic theatre artists, will offer its first full production — the world pre…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:22PMFriday, May 13, 2016
Some of Chicago’s best actors will be conjuring the Deep South in northern Wisconsin this summer when they star in the Midwest premiere of Kenneth Jones’ Alabama Story Aug. 17-Sept. 4 at…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:14AMTuesday, May 10, 2016
Matthew Ivan Bennett, Brooke Berman, Callie Kimball, Greg Kotis and Jeff Talbott — dramatists whose work I’ve admired and written about in the past — are among the 54 finalists of the …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:49PMTuesday, April 19, 2016
Florida Studio Theatre continues its commitment to nurturing new works this spring with readings of three new plays — welcoming dramatists Mike Lew, Julie Marie Myatt and Will Snider — i…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:58PM 
