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A reading Jeff Talbott's new play Elliot is on the inaugural 2016 calendar of Crowded Outlet, a fresh New York City not-for-profit theatre company devoted to developing and producing new wor…
A respected professor falls from grace when his lack of academic credentials is revealed T.J. Brady's four-actor drama Two Dollar Bill, getting its world premiere by Utah's Pioneer Theatre C…
Personal and societal tensions between actors in a community theatre production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? fuel Stephen Kaplan's new serious comedy The Community, getting a reading i…
Naughty/Nice, a musical comedy revue featuring four adult performers playing a multitude of twisted, profane and heartbreakingly desperate children writing letters to Santa Claus, joined the…
Christine Toy Johnson‘s new play The Secret Wisdom of Trees, about a woman’s need to map her past as she faces a future with Alzheimer’s disease, will get a reading Jan. 10…
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre has revealed three titles of its upcoming season.
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, the resident Equity theatre on Cape Cod, will present the New England premiere of Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones in its 2016 season. Full details for the WHA…
A real-life crime linked to the film "Cruising" and set in the Greenwich Village gay community of the '70s gets a fictional spin.
Playwright Chuck Blasius will hear his new play, Victim, inspired by a real-life murder in New York City’s pre-AIDS-era gay scene, in a private industry reading in Manhattan Dec. 13. T…
Broadway's Cass Morgan shares her new autobiographical musical "The Road to Where" in a private industry presentation following appearances at Geva Theatre and and Weston Playhouse.
The Road to Where, the folk-tinged musical memoir that actress-writer Cass Morgan conjured from real events, places and people in her life, will get a fresh New York City industry presentati…
A new three-character play about German students charged with treason in Nazi Germany gets additional development this month.
The latest developmental reading of David Meyers‘ We Will Not Be Silent, his new three-character play about students locked up after publishing anti-Nazi literature in Germany during W…
Pioneer Theatre Company's 2016 Play-By-Play Reading Series will spotlight three new American plays.
Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City will welcome playwrights Sarah Bierstock, Kenneth Jones and Tim Slover for separate weeklong residencies this winter for the third annual Play-By-Pl…
Door County's major resident Equity theatre announces a five-show 2016 season, including the Midwest premiere of a play about censorship and Civil Rights.
Peninsula Players Theatre, the nation’s oldest professional summer theatre, will produce Kenneth Jones‘ six-actor play Alabama Story in 2016, marking the title’s Midwest pr…
Casting has been announced for the new holiday revue "It Happened One Christmas," premiering in Salt Lake City in December. Rehearsals begin Nov. 9.
Over at Utah’s Pioneer Theatre Company, it’s beginning to look at lot like " oh, you know. Rehearsals begin Nov. 9 for the world premiere of It Happened One Christmas, a new holi…
Florida Studio Theatre has announced its 2015-16 season, to include the Southern premiere of "Alabama Story," a six-actor drama characterized as a highly theatrical cousin to "To Kill a Mock…
Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota will give Kenneth Jones‘ fact-inspired drama Alabama Story its second resident Equity production " and its debut in the South " in 2016. The six-acto…
Broadway and Off-Broadway stars sing the songs of composer Will Van Dyke and lyricist Jeff Talbott, who are collaborating on two musicals and a pop album, tonight at Feinstein's/54 Below.
The public debut of the new theatre/pop songwriting team of composer Will Van Dyke and lyricist Jeff Talbott happens Sept. 21 at Feinstein’s/54 Below with a 9:30 PM concert of their st…
Matthew Lee-Erlbach, the actor-playwright fearless about mixing personal, social and global politics into his plays, adds a jolt of carnality into his latest script, Sex of the Baby, getting…
Alabama Story, a new six-actor play by Kenneth Jones, had its world premiere Jan. 9-24, 2015, at Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, UT. Artistic director Karen Azenberg directed the …