The Department of Music, Theatre and Dance of Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan, surprised me this year with an Alumni Achievement Award in Theatre as part of its 18th annual M…
Lamb Theatre, the major non-Equity professional theatre in western Iowa, will launch its 38th season in fall 2017 with the state premiere of Alabama Story, the fact-inspired play about censo…
A family's journey toward wholeness in a household that includes a mermaid-obsessed transgender child is at the heart of Everything That's Beautiful, a new play by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, …
The Southeastern premiere of Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones will be presented by the Clarence Brown Theatre, the resident Equity company of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in Januar…
Majestic Theater, the resident Equity company in Western Massachusetts, will present the area premiere of Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones in early 2018. West Springfield, MA, will get to expe…
The scandal of marrying out of your faith " Catholic girl loves Protestant boy! " is at the heart of a new charm-bomb comedy called Divinity Place, one of the recently added titles to the ca…
Hudson Stage Company's Feb. 10 reading of Kenneth Jones' three-character family drama Two Henrys will feature HSC veteran Susan Pellegrino as grieving Florida matriarch Constance, who is con…
Jeremy Beck, Ted Koch, Todd Lawson and K.K. Moggie populate a bleak landscape flecked with hope in the world premiere of Jeff Talbott's new play The Gravedigger's Lullaby directed b…
A new play called i, by Jeff Talbott, will be heard for the first time as part of Pioneer Theatre Company's winter 2017 Play-by-Play new play reading series Jan. 27-28. The staged reading di…
The Summoning, actor-playwright Charlotte Ahlin's darkly comic new play about three college-age women flirting with the occult as they stand on the brink of adulthood, gets a developmental p…
Hudson Stage Company, the resident Equity theatre that embraces contemporary plays and develops new works in Westchester County, NY, will give voice to Kenneth Jones' family drama Two Henrys…
It was still early in the 2016-17 Broadway season, during September previews of Holiday Inn, The New Irving Berlin Musical at Studio 54, that a musical number emerged as an instant classic o…
Naughty/Nice, the musical comedy revue featuring four adult performers playing a multitude of twisted and desperate children writing letters to Santa Claus, begins its licensing life Dec. 9 …
Owen Thompson's new play The Green, charting the machinations of a handful of U.S. soldiers at the end of the Vietnam War, will get a reading in The Workshop Theater's Sundays@Six reading se…
Another Night Before Christmas, a two-character holiday musical that premiered in America's heartland and has been seen in nearly 20 productions around the country, gets its U.K. premiere at…
Kitty Dubin's Rights of Passage, a grouping of shorts plays addressing momentous events in the lives of disparate Jewish characters, is getting its world premiere by JET " Jewish Ensemble Th…
The Co-Op of Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, CA, is presenting a workshop run of Kenneth Jones' family dramedy Two Henrys Oct. 27-Nov. 13. Ann Bronston directs a cast featuring Lesley Fe…
The 2016-17 Play-By-Play Reading Series by Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City will feature Requiem for August Moon by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, i by Jeff Talbott and The Ice Front by …
A Connecticut man has fled to the New Mexico desert following an unspeakable tragedy in Vincent Delaney's drama Las Cruces, getting its world premiere Sept. 1-18 by Premiere Stages in Union,…
Under This Roof, Barbara Kingsley's drama of unexpected connections in the racially divided Cleveland of the late 1940s, gets a reading by Penguin Rep in Stony Point, NY, Aug. 29 as part of …
Alabama Story, the acclaimed historical drama by Michigan-bred playwright Kenneth Jones, will make its Wolverine State premiere Sept. 22-Oct. 9 in a staging by The Theatre Compa…
At The Flash, a new one-man, five-character play that charts seismic cultural changes in recent gay American history, gets its New York City premiere Aug. 13-24 as part of the 2016 New York …
The fluid give-and-take of energy between actors on stage is sometimes referred to as "ping pong," but a new FringeNYC play is taking the idea literally. A ping pong table and a fast-paced m…
The cast of the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater production Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones gathers for the first time Aug. 3 in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, to begin building the East Coast prem…
Some of Chicago's best actors will begin conjuring the Deep South in northern Wisconsin on July 28, when rehearsals begin for the Midwest premiere of Kenneth Jones' Alabama Story. T…