A few years ago when a play of mine was being produced by Florida Studio Theatre, a twentysomething intern named Dave Osmundsen picked me up at the airport and we got to chatting about plays…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:27PMTwo Henrys, Kenneth Jones’ three-character humor-laced drama about Wisconsin snowbirds dealing with grief, guilt, prejudice and perceptions in Florida, is among titles featured in PlayWork…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 02:36PMAlabama Story, the six-actor/one-set social justice drama by Kenneth Jones, will make its professional streaming debut Jan. 18-Feb. 14, 2021, when Actors Theatre of Indiana offers an on-dem…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 02:37PMSimply put, Greta Lambert is one of the great things to happen to regional theater. If you don’t know her work, you’re in luck: The veteran Alabama actress who has spent 35 years working…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:29PMOak Ridge Playhouse, the 77-year-old civic theater in eastern Tennessee, got more creative than usual for the year of COVID 19. Executive artistic director Reggie Law conceived a production …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 03:17PMAlabama Story, the six-actor drama cited by The Washington Post for its “national relevance” — trafficking in racial tensions, bullying politicians, persecuted but persistent women, Ci…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 07:20PMCape May Stage in New Jersey will stream a virtual reading of Kenneth Jones’ three-actor, one-set play Two Henrys live on Facebook 7 PM June 18 in celebration of Pride Month as part of the…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:37PMCape May Stage in New Jersey will stream a virtual reading of Kenneth Jones’ three-actor, one-set play Two Henrys live on Facebook 7 PM June 18 in celebration of Pride Month as part of the…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:37PMThe adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's classic tales opened at the Helen Hayes in 2001, and can be streamed though May 10 on composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's YouTube Channel The Shows Must Go On.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:32AMThe epic musical, drawn from Irish history by the creators of Les Misérables and Riverdance, was directed by Frank Galati.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:37AMTo mark the 80th birthday of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim in 2010, Playbill.com asked Broadway songwriters to do the impossible—pick their favorite songs by the master. A decade late…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PMOf the many gratifying experiences I’ve had witnessing the regional life of my play Alabama Story since 2015, I’m uniquely touched by the college and high school productions that have su…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:12PMWashington Stage Guild will give playwright Alex Webb a first-listen of his new six-actor comedy Beautiful Monster, about young aspiring novelist and gadabout George Bernard Shaw in the year…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:29PMThe inaugural TheatreLab series of new plays developed in readings by Actors Theatre of Indiana continues Feb. 4 with the presentation of Lindsay Adams’ drama Rattler, about a support grou…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:25PMAlabama Shakespeare Festival has announced casting for its March 2020 production of Kenneth Jones’ six-actor social justice drama Alabama Story — the Montgomery premiere of the acclaimed…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:18PMAlabama Shakespeare Festival has announced casting for its March 2020 production of Kenneth Jones’ six-actor social justice drama Alabama Story — the Montgomery premiere of the acclaimed…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:18PMAlabama Story, playwright Kenneth Jones’ six-actor, one-set play inspired by real events that touch on censorship and Civil Rights issues in “the Deep South of the imagination,” had i…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 07:21PMAlabama Story, the true tale of a librarian who was persecuted in the Deep South for her commitment to the freedom to read, will be produced by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and M…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:27PMHenrik Ibsen’s classic 1882 play An Enemy of the People, about civic responsibility, greed, mob mentality and public health, gets a fresh spin in Jeff Talbott’s new drama The Messenger, …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:16PMCumberland County Playhouse will conjure “the Deep South of the imagination” in fall 2020 with a new Tennessee production of Alabama Story, the fact-inspired drama about a children’s b…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:36PMPlaywright Enid Graham is enjoying a unique launch pad for her play, What Martha Did, in the University of California Santa Barbara program called, aptly, Launch Pad, which develops full pro…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:49AMNational artists and resident Hoosier actors assemble starting Nov. 1 in Carmel, Indiana, for rehearsals for Kenneth Jones’ new comedy Hollywood, Nebraska, the first public staged reading …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:38PMTAG-The Actors’ Group, the indie professional company known for its commitment to staging contemporary plays in intimate productions in Hawaii, presents the state premiere of Jeff Talbott�…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:24AMActors Theatre of Indiana co-founders Cynthia Collins and Don Farrell will face off as foes in the Indiana premiere of Kenneth Jones’ six-actor social justice drama Alabama Story, the true…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 07:02PMActors Theatre of Indiana co-founders Cynthia Collins and Don Farrell face off as foes in the Indiana premiere of Kenneth Jones’ six-actor social justice drama Alabama Story, the true stor…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 07:02PMKenneth Jones’ rueful six-actor comedy Hollywood, Nebraska will launch the first Lab Series of new play readings at Actors Theatre of Indiana in Carmel, IN, in November 2019. Playwrights L…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:43PMThe brilliant, brief candle that was U.K. theater director Mary Ann “Buzz” Goodbody — the first woman to direct at Royal Shakespeare Company — reignites in the world premiere product…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:49PMSeven years after it had its first developmental reading by Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery, Alabama Story, the highly theatrical drama that pits a state senator against the state…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:20AMIf you care about playwriting, you probably listen — or you should be listening — to the valuable podcast called “The Subtext,” hosted by Chicago-based playwright Brian James Polak, …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:00PMThe famously hawk-nosed actress Margaret Hamilton — best known as The Wicked Witch in the film “The Wizard of Oz,” but employed for decades as a treasured character actress — gets a …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:19PMThe title word of Rachel Bublitz’s stark new three-character play, Ripped, has multiple meanings as it explores layers of truth about the sexual assault of a college student named Lucy. Th…
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