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David Brian Alley, Jade Arnold, Katie Cunningham, Chris Klopatek, Brian Mani and Brittany Pirozzoli will appear in the Southeastern premiere of Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones at the…
The nautical map of Shakespeare's late-career seafaring adventure, Pericles, is getting revised this month Off-Broadway in an intimate five-actor production called Pericles: Born in a Tempes…
The Los Angeles-based musical duo of Jack and Benny Lipson, twin brothers who write songs, make music and perform together and with friends as the band jackbenny, will make their New York Ci…
Pioneer Theatre Company's fifth season of Play-by-Play, the series of new play readings mixing playwrights with resident and visiting guest actors and directors, begins Oct. 6-7 with a stage…
Kelli Kerslake Colaco's new play Hazardous Materials " in which two strangers with Middle Eastern roots are seated together on a New York-bound airplane " will get a San Francisco reading Se…
A bullying politician and formidable lady librarian are going to clash in the nation's capital in 2017-18. Washington Stage Guild, the resident DC company known for presenting "literate, cha…
Back in May 2015, when pop and theatre singer-songwriter Daniel Zaitchik was prepping his new romantic musical comedy Darling Grenadine for a concert reading in Los Angeles, he answere…
Playwright Gabrielle Sinclair went rooting through the pages of Vassar College's archives in preparation to write her new female-cast play, The Resolute, about the formation of a women's bas…
A kindergartner's classroom behavior catches the eye of a meddling teacher in Stephen Kaplan's A Real Boy, getting its world premiere at 59E59 Theaters in Manhattan. Turns out, young Max has…
Another Roll of the Dice, the new musical by librettist Mark Saltzman, might as well be called More Guys and Dolls. Like the beloved hit musical Guys and Dolls, it marries songs by Frank Loe…
You might know Ben Strothmann as a keen-eyed photographer, capturing the essence of performers for headshots, album covers and theatrical productions in New York City. Or you may know him fo…
Hollywood, Nebraska, the rueful comedy by Kenneth Jones about two fortysomething actresses who return to their small town for separate family emergencies, will be workshopped by Wyoming Thea…
Kenneth Jones' fact-inspired drama Alabama Story, the tale of a librarian persecuted by a politician in the Jim Crow South, will be produced by at least six regional theatres in the 2017-18 …
The Summoning, playwright Charlotte Ahlin's darkly comic new play about three college-age women toying with the occult as they stand on the brink of adulthood, gets a staging in SheNYC…
NewTACTics, the new play reading series by Off-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre, will welcome four plays and six playwrights into its seventh annual New Play Festival June 7-29. Th…
Amelia, the gritty Civil War-set romance by Alex Webb that maps the journey of a young wife who disguises herself as a man and goes behind enemy lines to find her Union Army husband, is now …
City Lights Theater Company, the resident professional theater in San Jose, CA, will produce the West Coast premiere of Kenneth Jones' six-actor drama Alabama Story, introducing California a…
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…
Jeff Talbott's latest play, i, will get its world premiere in the 2017-18 season of Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, UT. The resident Equity company first developed the drama " a m…
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…