Friday, 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 12:03AMSunday, 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 04:13PM 
