379 stories from By Kenneth Jones
A look at the four titles in the newTACTics Festival of New Plays, a series of readings by Off-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre.
In honor of Cole Porter's birthday on June 9, a look at the forgotten musical "You Never Know," which was revised in the 1980s and '90s.
Alabama Shakespeare Festival has announced the titles, writers, directors and actors of the 2014 Southern Writers' Project Festival of New Plays, launching this week in Montgomery, AL.
A chat with playwright James Bosley, artistic director of NYC's UP Theater Company, which is premiering his "Broad Channel" this month.
An interview with singer Sara Zahn on the occasion of her May revival of "The Cahn Film Festival," her Sammy Chan cabaret at the Metropolitan Room.
The 2014-15 season of Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City will include the world premiere of Kenneth Jones' fact-inspired drama "Alabama Story," previously developed by Pioneer and Ala…
Matthew-Lee Erlbach ("Handbook for an American Revolutionary") talks about his National Playwrights Conference finalist script "Kevin Lamb," getting an April 21 New York City reading under t…
Following an Off-Broadway run, "Falling," Deanna Jent's drama of a family's experience with autism, has returned to its place of birth " Mustard Seed Theatre in St. Louis " for a revival to …
Pioneer Theatre Company's inaugural Play-By-Play new play series continues with a developmental reading of Kenneth Jones' "Alabama Story," inspired by true events in the Deep South. PTC arti…
Playwright Michael Slade talks about his new same-sex marriage comedy "Family Shots" in anticipation of its 2015 world premiere by The Human Race Theatre Company in Dayton, OH.
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…
Jeff 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.
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…
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…
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…
Pioneer Theatre Company announces the directors who'll participate in the inaugural Play-By-Play new-works series in Salt Lake City this winter.
Actor-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…
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 …
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…
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.
Playwright Sarah Shaefer shares a few thought about her new Off-Off-Broadway play, "The Gin Baby," about a woman in crisis.
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.
Playwright Chuck Blasius, whose two-actor 2002 play, We Were There, movingly charted the relationship of two gay men over a 30-year period " from the flashpoint of Stonewall to the grief and…
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 …
The 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 …
