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 11:14AMMatthew 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 10:49PMFlorida 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 01:58PMA hike along the Appalachian Trail is more fraught than expected for a grieving man in Chelsea Marcantel’s new play Even Longer and Farther Away, getting its world premiere April 15-May 15…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:21PMA pair of former lovers reunite in middle age on Fire Island in Michael Raver’s new play, Riptide, getting two Manhattan reading presentations April 18. Raising the stakes in the coinciden…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 08:40AMQuick Silver Theater Company will give voice to new plays by playwrights Sergei Burbank, Guadalis Del Carmen and Shashone Lambert in developmental readings June 12-19 as part of the company&…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:03PMThe American Theatre Critics Association named six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award on March 11, recognizing playwrights for th…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 08:26AMAlabama Story, the acclaimed historical drama by Michigan-bred playwright Kenneth Jones, will make its Wolverine State premiere in fall 2016 in a staging by The Theatre Company of the Univer…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:02PMA New York Times reporter blacklisted from working in Pakistan uses technology to connect to remote colleagues and sources in Sarah Bierstock’s new play Honor Killing, getting public prese…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 07:00PMA torturer’s double life, a meeting of anguished parents, a Southern coming-of-age story and a loner holed up in a ramshackle trailer are in the mix of new works to be developed in Premier…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:04PMCasting is set for the Florida premiere of Alabama Story, the highly theatrical new play by Kenneth Jones that charts a real-life censorship and civil rights battle set in “the Deep South …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:39PMA lurid chapter in the recent history of the Mormon Church is dramatized in playwright-director Charles Morey’s new drama The Salamander’s Tale, seen in several recent developmental read…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:30PMLegitimate theatre and NASCAR racing make a rare marriage March 3-May 7 with the world premiere of White Lightning, playwright Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder’s imagining of the moonshine-runnin�…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:29PMA Manhattan apartment building populated by newlyweds, a visiting mother-in-law, nosy neighbors and a picky co-op board is the setting of actress-playwright Nandita Shenoy’s romantic comed…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:14AMActors Lesley Fera, Susan Pellegrino and Robert Scott Smith will be in a Pioneer Theatre Company rehearsal studio with playwright Kenneth Jones and director Karen Azenberg starting Feb. 1 fo…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 08:58AMNew plays by Catya McMullen, Sean Williams, Brian Sutow and Hal Corley will be heard in February in the 2016 From the Ground UP New Works Reading Festival, an annual series by Ground UP Prod…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:39AMA reading Jeff Talbott’s new play Elliot is on the inaugural 2016 calendar of Crowded Outlet, a fresh New York City not-for-profit theatre company devoted to developing and producing new w…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 05:18PMA respected professor falls from grace when his lack of academic credentials is revealed T.J. Brady’s four-actor drama Two Dollar Bill, getting its world premiere by Utah’s Pioneer Theat…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:58AMPersonal and societal tensions between actors in a community theatre production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? fuel Stephen Kaplan’s new serious comedy The Community, getting a readi…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:42AMNaughty/Nice, a musical comedy revue featuring four adult performers playing a multitude of twisted, profane and heartbreakingly desperate children writing letters to Santa Claus, joined the…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:04PMChristine Toy Johnson‘s new 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 reading Jan. 10…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:29PMWellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre has revealed three titles of its upcoming season.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:16AMA real-life crime linked to the film "Cruising" and set in the Greenwich Village gay community of the '70s gets a fictional spin.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:08AMBroadway's Cass Morgan shares her new autobiographical musical "The Road to Where" in a private industry presentation following appearances at Geva Theatre and and Weston Playhouse.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 08:30AMA new three-character play about German students charged with treason in Nazi Germany gets additional development this month.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:59AMDoor County's major resident Equity theatre announces a five-show 2016 season, including the Midwest premiere of a play about censorship and Civil Rights.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:51PMCasting has been announced for the new holiday revue "It Happened One Christmas," premiering in Salt Lake City in December. Rehearsals begin Nov. 9.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:11AMFlorida Studio Theatre has announced its 2015-16 season, to include the Southern premiere of "Alabama Story," a six-actor drama characterized as a highly theatrical cousin to "To Kill a Mock…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 07:17AMBroadway and Off-Broadway stars sing the songs of composer Will Van Dyke and lyricist Jeff Talbott, who are collaborating on two musicals and a pop album, tonight at Feinstein's/54 Below.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:42AMPlaywright-actor Matthew-Lee Erlbach talks about the characters and conflicts of his new Off-Broadway play "Sex of the Baby."
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:20PMTheatre and pop songwriters Jeff Talbott & Will Van Dyke unveil some of their work on a new EP featuring Broadways stars Billy Porter, Kate Baldwin, Jonathan Groff and more.
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