Tennessee Williams Drank Here, Kenneth Jones' six-character drama about the clash of three generations of Mississippi restaurateurs, gets its latest developmental step April 30 in Florida Re…
Jerry Herman, the Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist of La Cage aux Folles, Mame, Mack and Mabel, The Grand Tour, Dear World and Hello, Dolly!, died in 2019. Here's a reprint of my 2008 in…
Is there such a thing as an actual good deed? Or even a good person? These and more questions about tests of character are asked in Samaritans, the new three-character play by Jeff Tal…
Ground UP Productions will add "Academy Award winner" to its roster of playwrights who've benefited from staged readings in the company's annual New Works Winter Reading Festival. Ernest Tho…
Enid Graham is such a fixture as a New York City-based actress and playwright that I sometimes forget she has roots in Texas. The alumna of the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Program at Ju…
Conflicting memories of what happened to two sisters at the New Jersey home they grew up in punctuate Jon Marans' three-character play home sick, getting a staged reading in Ground UP Produc…
A family at odds over the estate of their late patriarch is at the center of Laura Darrell's new six-actor play The Will, getting a New York City staged reading Feb. 2 as the first of five n…
Off-Broadway's Ground UP Productions will spotlight plays by Laura Darrell, Enid Graham, Jon Marans, Jeff Talbott and On Golden Pond writer Ernest Thompson in its 2026 Winter Reading Series.…
Pioneer Theatre Company's tradition of world-premiere productions continues this winter with Ten Brave Seconds, a new pop musical by Will Van Dyke and Jeff Talbott, running Jan. 30"Feb. 14. …
Following its summer 2025 world premiere by Barrington Stage Company, the new musical fuzzy " the puppet-and-human-populated tale of a storyteller who goes home to care for his ailing mother…
In her new three-character drama 1999, playwright Stacey Isom Campbell fixes her lens on the Hollywood ambitions of female filmmakers in the era of #MeToo, when women were speaking out about…
The centuries-old ritual of the Passion Play " the theatrical depiction of the last days and resurrection of Jesus " has been a bonding force in communities since medieval days. In actor-pla…
From the hearts and minds of the songwriting team of Will Van Dyke and Jeff Talbott comes a new musical " with puppets! " called fuzzy, a title so adorable you'd guess it might be Barrington…
What if you were able to access the history, memories and essence of a dead loved one? Would you? Should you? The intriguing prospect of coming to terms with grief through new tech gives win…
Playwright Enid Graham isn't exactly tackling the small stuff in her new play, How to Save Ourselves, a commission from The Farm Theater and developed with a pair of college theater programs…
Why We Go to Florida, my three-character comedy-drama that reunites estranged chosen family members after the death of a patriarch, was presented in a staged reading May 1 in Florida Reperto…
Ground UP Productions, the indie Off-Broadway company known for presenting readings and eclectic productions in New York City, is taking its act on the road for a residency at The Foundry in…
Scott co-wrote the musical and starred as a young woman going from a Mennonite upbringing to a career in show business.
Florida Repertory Theatre's 2025 PlayLab Festival of New Works will feature readings of new scripts by Jesse Corbin, Stacey Isom Campbell, Lindsay Joelle, Kenneth Jones and Samara Siskind. S…
Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre (MET) gives the censorship drama Alabama Story its Kansas City, MO, premiere April 9-13 in the intimate setting of The Simpson House, a three-story 1909 mansion…
Tennessee Williams Drank Here, a three-act drama by Kenneth Jones about a family of white restaurateurs clashing over their decades-old participation in racist practices at their Mississippi…
Ten Minutes On a Bench, my vignette comedy for a cast of eight or more, will be produced by the theater department of University of Wisconsin Milwaukee April 23-27, 2025. An ensemble of all-…
Ground UP Productions, the independent Off-Off-Broadway company, announced plays by Shelley McPherson, Alex Webb, Jordan Reeves and Kenneth Jones for its Winter 2025 New Works Reading Series…
When I saw Michelle Kholos Brooks' new play Room 1214 in a staged reading at Florida Repertory Theatre in spring 2024, I called it "a conjuring." After experiencing the world premiere of it …
"Two comedians in recovery walk into a theater." That sounds like the start of a dubious joke, but it's exactly where collaborating playwrights Spike Manton and Harry Teinowitz " also known …