Two couples who are best friends and neighbors are on the brink of conflict. Herman is facing challenges. His pal Lou just got a huge opportunity. There's the rub of Imbroglio, a play by Mel…
Ebony Road Players, the only Black theater company in Grand Rapids, is presenting the west Michigan premiere of Kenneth Jones' social justice drama Alabama Story " about interracial marriage…
Plays by Matthew Ivan Bennett, Kaaron Briscoe and Catherine Trieschmann will be presented in staged readings in Pioneer Theatre Company's spring 2023 Play-by-Play Festival of new works in…
A facts-only astrophysicist at life's crossroads is challenged to view a celestial phenomenon in a new way in the world premiere of Sean Grennan's new dramatic comedy A Rock Sails By, gettin…
Family history often provides inspiration for playwrights, as actor-playwright Jenny Mercein knows too well. For her past plays, she has borrowed from her own easily accessible personal hist…
Amy Baldwin and Matthew Scott Campbell will face off as ideological foes in the West Virginia premiere of Kenneth Jones' highly theatrical Alabama Story, playing Greenbrier Valley Theatre Ma…
Once upon a time there was a children's picture book, "The Rabbits' Wedding," about a bunny with white fur who marries a bunny with black fur. Written and illustrated by Garth Williams, best…
The Schoolhouse Theater, the resident Equity theater company that has produced classic and new works in Westchester County, New York since 1986, relights as a live performance venue this spr…
New scripts that explore Southern identity will be presented in staged readings in the 2023 Southern Writers Festival of New Plays at Alabama Shakespeare Festival March 17-18 in Montgomery, …
At a women's wellness retreat run by an unseen male guru, cloistered attendees Lois, Toni, Maria and Aditi meet, share housing, chafe, bond and ask questions of themselves and the world in N…
Peninsula Players is famous in the Midwest for its summer productions in Door County, Wisconsin, but it's not dormant all winter long. Plays are tested off-season, too. Titles in the company…
Alabama Story, the true story of an embattled librarian persecuted for protecting children's books in the Deep South of 1959, will make its West Virginia debut at Greenbrier Valley Theatre i…
Hollywood, Nebraska, the six-actor comedy by Kenneth Jones that reunites two high school friends in their hometown in the Great Plains, will get its third production in a rolling world premi…
Alabama Story, Kenneth Jones' fact-inspired play about an embattled librarian in the Civil Rights era, is now published in an Acting Edition from Dramatists Play Service, which also licenses…
In spring 2022, I read a rueful, charming, tough-minded new play called Off Peak, about former lovers meeting on a train, and I knew immediately that I wanted to throw some questions at p…
A fire that consumed three immigrant hatmakers in a notorious Ontario town more than a century ago has ignited the imagination of Canadian composer-lyricist Marek Norman, who turned their st…
Years ago I did some work on an article I wanted to write about Jerry Herman's five greatest show tunes. Y'know, one of those clickbait pieces where readers will either celebrate you or tras…
Nearly 30 years of milestones in the lives of two pals who meet in middle school are centerstage in Jeffrey Lo's heartfelt, charming comedy-drama Waiting for Next, finally getting its world …
After a winter 2022 postponement due to COVID-era issues, Georgia Ensemble Theatre in Roswell, GA, will give Alabama Story " the six-actor, one-set drama about an embattled librarian in the …
Kenneth Jones' six-actor comedy Hollywood, Nebraska " the story of two actresses returning to their dying hometown " will get at least three "rolling world premiere" productions by American …
I just read a rueful, charming, tough new play called Off Peak, about former lovers meeting on a train, and I knew immediately that I wanted to throw some questions at playwright Brenda With…
Sean Blake, Judy Fitzgerald and Jan Lucas will be the trio of Midwestern snowbirds unpacking family secrets in a May 14 developmental staged reading of Kenneth Jones' comedy-drama Two Henrys…
"Ah, look at all the lonely people," a line from Lennon and McCartney's "Eleanor Rigby," was on my mind when I read Stephen Kaplan's quirky, sadness-tinged, four-actor comedy Tracy Jones. Th…
When I saw a New York City reading of a three-character pop musical called Writing Kevin Taylor a few years ago, I was certain this would be the next big little hit in regional theaters " a …
Kenneth Jones' six-actor comedy Hollywood, Nebraska is the latest title in Music Theatre of Connecticut's New Voices series, a non-musical pilot program that gives a spotlight to five …