Alabama Shakespeare Festival has announced casting for its March 2020 production of Kenneth Jones' six-actor social justice drama Alabama Story " the Montgomery premiere of the acclaimed pla…
Alabama Story, playwright Kenneth Jones' six-actor, one-set play inspired by real events that touch on censorship and Civil Rights issues in "the Deep South of the imagination," had its w…
Alabama Story, the true tale of a librarian who was persecuted in the Deep South for her commitment to the freedom to read, will be produced by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and M…
Henrik Ibsen's classic 1882 play An Enemy of the People, about civic responsibility, greed, mob mentality and public health, gets a fresh spin in Jeff Talbott's new drama The Messenger, to b…
Cumberland County Playhouse will conjure "the Deep South of the imagination" in fall 2020 with a new Tennessee production of Alabama Story, the fact-inspired drama about a children's book th…
Playwright Enid Graham is enjoying a unique launch pad for her play, What Martha Did, in the University of California Santa Barbara program called, aptly, Launch Pad, which develops full pro…
National artists and resident Hoosier actors assemble starting Nov. 1 in Carmel, Indiana, for rehearsals for Kenneth Jones' new comedy Hollywood, Nebraska, the first public staged reading in…
TAG-The Actors' Group, the indie professional company known for its commitment to staging contemporary plays in intimate productions in Hawaii, presents the state premiere of Jeff Talbott's …
Actors Theatre of Indiana co-founders Cynthia Collins and Don Farrell will face off as foes in the Indiana premiere of Kenneth Jones' six-actor social justice drama Alabama Story, the true s…
Actors Theatre of Indiana co-founders Cynthia Collins and Don Farrell face off as foes in the Indiana premiere of Kenneth Jones' six-actor social justice drama Alabama Story, the true story …
Kenneth Jones' rueful six-actor comedy Hollywood, Nebraska will launch the first Lab Series of new play readings at Actors Theatre of Indiana in Carmel, IN, in November 2019. Playwrights Lin…
The brilliant, brief candle that was U.K. theater director Mary Ann "Buzz" Goodbody " the first woman to direct at Royal Shakespeare Company " reignites in the world premiere production of S…
Seven years after it had its first developmental reading by Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery, Alabama Story, the highly theatrical drama that pits a state senator against the state…
If you care about playwriting, you probably listen " or you should be listening " to the valuable podcast called "The Subtext," hosted by Chicago-based playwright Brian James Polak, who asks…
The famously hawk-nosed actress Margaret Hamilton " best known as The Wicked Witch in the film "The Wizard of Oz," but employed for decades as a treasured character actress " gets a fresh sp…
The title word of Rachel Bublitz's stark new three-character play, Ripped, has multiple meanings as it explores layers of truth about the sexual assault of a college student named Lucy. Ther…
Out of Box Theatre, the Marietta, Georgia company devoted to contemporary plays and musicals in an intimate setting, is giving Jeff Talbott's six-actor play A Public Education a full product…
Pulitzer Prize finalist Jon Marans' new four-character play home sick " an American haunting is the latest script getting developed in Alma Theatre Company's Fresh, Raw and Wild Equity Stage…
Playwright Tira Palmquist explores tough choices " personal and professional " made by law enforcement officers in her new four-character play The Way North, which is getting a development o…
Alabama Story, the fact-inspired six-actor drama about an Indiana librarian who made international headlines when she stood up for the freedom to read in the segregated Deep South, will make…
Emerson Theater Collaborative, the boutique bicoastal company devoted to innovative, socially relevant and thought-provoking theater, is presenting a weekend run of Kenneth Jones' six-actor …
Humor is the unexpected thread that holds together compelling elements of sexual trauma, family memory, addiction and legacy in Steven Strafford's arresting new ensemble play Small Jokes Abo…
The swirl of wind, the chaos of rain and the roar of thunder, all capricious elements of Shakespeare's The Tempest, seem to inform the twisty, whimsical nature of Lila Rose Kaplan's new poet…
Great Plains Theatre, the professional Equity company in Abilene, Kansas, will stage Kenneth Jones' six-actor social justice drama Alabama Story in spring 2020, introducing Sunflower State a…
Playwright Victor Lesniewski draws on his tech background " an engineering degree and a job in network security and cryptography " for his new play, The Fifth Domain, which is enjoying devel…