Monday, 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 02:54PMMonday, March 10, 2014
Elaine Chelton and Erik Johnke's musical "God's Country" gets a reading by York Theatre Company on March 11. Writer Johnke talks about changes made to the script and score following its NYMF…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:11PMJeff Talbott, author of the award-winning Off-Broadway play "The Submission," talks about his new play, getting a reading in Pioneer Theatre Company's Play-By-Play series in Salt Lake City.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:57AMSaturday, March 8, 2014
Performance Network Theatre in Ann Arbor, MI, gives voice to resident playwrights in its latest new-works reading festival March 9-12. Associate artistic director explains the history and wo…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:46AMThursday, March 6, 2014
Folk-pop singer Jonatha Brooke talks about the creation of her autobiographical one-woman musical play "My Mother Has 4 Noses," now Off-Broadway, an expressionistic hybrid of monologue and s…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:04AMTuesday, February 25, 2014
Rehearsals began Monday for a Utah reading of Jessica Provenz's "True Art," the first of three works being developed this winter in Pioneer Theatre Company's inaugural Play-By-Play reading s…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:16PMMonday, February 17, 2014
Pioneer Theatre Company announces the directors who'll participate in the inaugural Play-By-Play new-works series in Salt Lake City this winter.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:58PMActor-playwright Joshua Rollins, known for Chicago productions of "25 Saints" and "The Girl With Sun in Her Eyes," talks about his new play, "Darlin'," plus his training, influences, West Vi…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:53PMTuesday, February 11, 2014
Sheldon Harnick revises three musicals at once — No one could blame Sheldon Harnick if he simply reveled in his past achievements. After all, as the lyricist of classic musicals like F…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:30AMTuesday, February 4, 2014
Playwright Kari Bentley-Quinn talks about the inspiration for her new play about the sole survivor of a plane crash, "The Unlikely Ascent of Sybil Stevens," premiering at The Secret Theatre …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:59AMThursday, January 30, 2014
An interview with New York City playwright Brooke Berman (whose roots are in Michigan) about her world-premiere drama set in Detroit high-rise apartment building that was a symbol of aspirat…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 05:13PMSaturday, January 25, 2014
Barrymore Award-winning composer-lyricist-librettist Michael Ogborn returns to his hometown of Philadelphia to workshop 1980s-set musical "Field Hockey Hot" with 11th Hour Theatre Co.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:52PMSaturday, January 18, 2014
Playwright Sarah Shaefer shares a few thought about her new Off-Off-Broadway play, "The Gin Baby," about a woman in crisis.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:55PMSaturday, January 4, 2014
Playwright Chuck Blasius talks about his new Off-Off-Broadway dramedy "I Could Say More," which is in the spirit of handcrafted ensemble plays of Lanford Wilson.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:11PMMonday, December 30, 2013
An update about the progress of the holiday-themed musical comedy "Naughty/Nice," by Kenneth Jones & Gerald Stockstill, recently seen at Caroline's on Broadway and now being optioned by The …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:34PMThe year 2013 ended on a positive note for the new musical Naughty/Nice, the holiday-set four-actor show that I co-wrote with composer Gerald Stockstill. A producer is picking it up, and we …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 06:28PMThursday, December 12, 2013
Tony Award-winning puppet designers Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones and puppeteer Jessica Krueger talk about the magic of "War Horse" on the occasion of the Detroit stop of the North American …
SOURCE: www.detroitnews.com at 09:37AMThursday, December 5, 2013
Folk singer-songwriter Laurelyn Dossett talks about her collaboration on a new Appalachian-set musical, "Snow Queen," inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen story, now getting its world pre…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:04PMMonday, December 2, 2013
In How I Learned What I Learned, Ruben Santiago-Hudson conjures August Wilson’s past — Late in his life, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson added a grace note to the…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:26PMSaturday, November 30, 2013
Director Gordon Greenberg, co-conceiver Abigail Pogrebin and producer Daryl Roth talk about crafting their new musical "Stars of David," a revue about Jewish personalities processing their r…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:22PMThursday, November 28, 2013
As one of two national tours of "Elf" visits Detroit, songwriters Chad Beguelin and Matthew Sklar reflect on getting into the head of the title character.
SOURCE: www.detroitnews.com at 10:03PMWednesday, November 27, 2013
At a recent matinee of the new musical Stars of David: Story to Song, now playing a limited engagement through Dec. 15 at Off-Broadway’s DR2, actor Aaron Serotsky spoke the Hebrew words �…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:30PMFriday, November 22, 2013
A look at how director Rob Ruggiero approached Goodspeed Musicals' current revival of Frank Loesser's "The Most Happy Fella," including trimming songs, changing the time period and adding a …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:22PMSaturday, November 9, 2013
An appreciation of lyricist Dorothy Fields, whose work is heard on Philip Chaffin's new PS Classics release, "Somethin' Real Special: The Songs of Dorothy Fields." Includes reprint of Maury …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:27PMFriday, November 1, 2013
Playwright Ken Ludwig reveals details about his sequel to "Lend Me a Tenor," and discusses his Sherlock Holmes-inspired titles and his new book about teaching Shakespeare to kids.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:12PMTuesday, October 29, 2013
In showstopping performances, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Adriane Lenox evoke the legends of jazz and blues — Welcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing series on actors and how th…
SOURCE: TDF at 09:07AMMonday, October 14, 2013
Alabama Story, the new history-inspired six-actor play by Kenneth Jones, is one of three plays announced to be presented in Pioneer Theatre Company’s inaugural Play-by-Play new-play re…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 06:54PMThursday, October 3, 2013
The 25th-anniversary season of Jewish Ensemble Theatre in West Bloomfield, MI, in suburban Detroit, kicked off Sept. 25 with the first performance of Wendy Wasserstein’s rueful comedy …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:07PMSunday, September 29, 2013
The idea of the kitchen-sink drama — gritty, angry plays of social realism — gets a full remodeling job in suburban Detroit this month with “The Kitchen Plays,” a world-premi…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:42PMFriday, September 27, 2013
The first great discovery of the 2013-14 Off-Broadway season, TACT/The Actors Company Theatre’s Natural Affection by William Inge, expertly directed by Jenn Thompson, is bait for tho…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:31AMWednesday, September 18, 2013
Theatre students in Rochester, NY, are cutting their teeth on a world-premiere collection of short comic pieces — including eight songs — by two-time Tony Award winner Greg Kotis (Urinet…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:33AM 
