Thursday, September 11, 2014
Chicago theatre artists Corliss Preston, John Slywka and Michelle Shupe are creating a CD mixing the words of Shakespeare's women with sound effects and music.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:36PMTuesday, August 26, 2014
The creative team of Pioneer Theatre Company's upcoming world premiere staging of "Alabama Story" has been announced.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:59AMWednesday, August 20, 2014
Playwright Matthew-Lee Erlbach talks about the inspiration for his new play "A Neighbor in the Area," getting reading with Reed Birney, Heather Lind and Nick Westrate.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:55AMTuesday, August 12, 2014
A look at Mark St. Germain's new romantic comedy, "Dancing Lessons," getting its world premiere Aug. 13 at Barrington Stage Company.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:02PMWednesday, August 6, 2014
Playwright Roger Weisman talks about his new Albee-esque sci-fi play "How Do You Say Mother in Esperanto?," part of FringeNYC.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:52AMFriday, August 1, 2014
Chicago playwright Brett Neveu discusses his past, his process and his current project, the NYC premiere of his acclaimed play "The Opponent," by A Red Orchid Theatre.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:57AMWednesday, July 30, 2014
Why Brett Neveu’s boxing drama is actually a family play — There is nothing particularly warm, welcoming, or homey about the setting of Brett Neveu’s The Opponent, a two-ch…
SOURCE: TDF at 09:00AMWednesday, July 23, 2014
Actress-playwright Jenny Mercein talks about her solo show "Beautiful Mount Airy Lodge," inspired by her own coming of age and the life and death of the iconic Pennsylvania resort.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:17AMMonday, July 14, 2014
Kellen Blair and Joe Kinosian, the award-winning musical comedy writers whose "Murder For Two" completed an eight-month Off-Broadway run on June 29, have a new musical waiting in the wings.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:21AMTuesday, July 8, 2014
Playwright and director Charles Morey talks about "The Granite State," his Cowardesque new American comedy premiering July 23-Aug. 3 at Peterborough Players, his first and continuing artisti…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:10PMMonday, June 30, 2014
Playwright Sean Grennan talks about his new comedy-drama "The Tin Woman," about a heart transplant recipient meeting the late donor's family, getting its world premiere by Wisconsin's Penins…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:14PMWednesday, June 25, 2014
The fourth and final reading in the 2014 NewTACTics Festival of New Plays, Matte O’Brien‘s "The Wonderful Mr. & Mrs. O’Leary," will be heard 7 PM June 25-26 at the TACT Studio in Manha…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:36AMSaturday, June 21, 2014
Cori Thomas talks about her approach to playwriting and what led her to conjure "When January Feels Like Summer," now in its final weekend at Ensemble Studio Theatre.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 08:35AMTuesday, June 17, 2014
The new play "Alabama Story," a finalist in the 2014 National Playwrights Conference, gets a Manhattan reading June 18-19 prior to its world premiere by Utah's Pioneer Theatre Company.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:39AMTuesday, June 10, 2014
Broadway's Robert Creighton sings and dances in a June 13 New York City reading of the musical "Cagney," the Carbonell Award-winning show that he co-wrote with Peter Colley and Christopher M…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:37AMCasting has been announced for the June 11-12 NewTACtics reading of "A Public Education," Jeff Talbott‘s peek inside the faculty lounge of an American high school, presented by Off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:33AMSunday, June 8, 2014
A look at the four titles in the newTACTics Festival of New Plays, a series of readings by Off-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:07AMIn honor of Cole Porter's birthday on June 9, a look at the forgotten musical "You Never Know," which was revised in the 1980s and '90s.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:59AMFriday, June 6, 2014
Cori Thomas dramatizes her revelation about cultural differences — Playwright Cori Thomas didn’t have to travel far to find inspiration for her new play When January Feels Like S…
SOURCE: TDF at 09:00AMTuesday, May 20, 2014
Artistic director Antoni Cimolino talks about "King Lear," one of 12 productions in the now-dawning 2014 season of the Stratford Festival in Ontario.
SOURCE: www.detroitnews.com at 11:55AMMonday, May 12, 2014
Alabama Shakespeare Festival has announced the titles, writers, directors and actors of the 2014 Southern Writers' Project Festival of New Plays, launching this week in Montgomery, AL.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:23AMWednesday, May 7, 2014
Shaw Festival artistic director Jackie Maxwell talks about "re-oxygenating" classics, like "The Philanderer," in the 2014 season, which officially begins May 9 in Ontario.
SOURCE: www.detroitnews.com at 09:35AMMonday, May 5, 2014
A chat with playwright James Bosley, artistic director of NYC's UP Theater Company, which is premiering his "Broad Channel" this month.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:32AMThursday, May 1, 2014
An interview with singer Sara Zahn on the occasion of her May revival of "The Cahn Film Festival," her Sammy Chan cabaret at the Metropolitan Room.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:01PMMonday, April 21, 2014
The 2014-15 season of Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City will include the world premiere of Kenneth Jones' fact-inspired drama "Alabama Story," previously developed by Pioneer and Ala…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:14AMFriday, April 18, 2014
Matthew-Lee Erlbach ("Handbook for an American Revolutionary") talks about his National Playwrights Conference finalist script "Kevin Lamb," getting an April 21 New York City reading under t…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:02AMThursday, April 17, 2014
Following an Off-Broadway run, "Falling," Deanna Jent’s drama of a family's experience with autism, has returned to its place of birth — Mustard Seed Theatre in St. Louis — for a reviv…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:34PMHow dozens of writers came together to create The Mysteries — When invited to pitch a new project to The Flea Theater following his epic staging of These Seven Sicknesses—a five-…
SOURCE: TDF at 08:36AMTuesday, April 15, 2014
At the Hilberry Theatre of Wayne State University in Detroit, Lavinia Hart — head of the MFA acting program, and better known as Lavinia Moyer, founder of the long-gone Attic Theatre — …
SOURCE: www.detroitnews.com at 03:55PMTuesday, March 25, 2014
Pioneer Theatre Company's inaugural Play-By-Play new play series continues with a developmental reading of Kenneth Jones' "Alabama Story," inspired by true events in the Deep South. PTC arti…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:02AMMonday, March 24, 2014
How Bikeman evokes the chaos of Ground Zero — Michael Bush had a clear vision when he was preparing to direct and co-adapt Bikeman, Thomas F. Flynn’s autobiographical narrative p…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:54PM 
