Playwright Kenneth Jones will map out his new serious comedy, Hollywood, Nebraska " about two actresses returning to their shared small-town roots for separate family emergencies " in a 29-h…
Jeff Talbott's new play Three Rules for the Dragon, about a law enforcement interrogator pulled between his gruesome work and his domestic life, is being investigated in rehearsals toward a …
A rising political figure. A cunning campaign manager. A complicated cop. A shrewd lawyer. A battered woman. All of them figure into Jeff Keilholtz's new play, Bad Fiction, kicking off the 2…
Kenneth Jones' new play Hollywood, Nebraska, a rueful comedy about two fortysomething actresses and former schoolmates returning to their small-town roots for separate family emergencies, is…
Crowded Outlet, the new not-for-profit theatre organization committed to developing and producing the work of eclectic theatre artists, will offer its first full production " the world premi…
Some of Chicago's best actors will be conjuring the Deep South in northern Wisconsin this summer when they star in the Midwest premiere of Kenneth Jones' Alabama Story Aug. 17-Sept. 4 at Pen…
Matthew Ivan Bennett, Brooke Berman, Callie Kimball, Greg Kotis and Jeff Talbott " dramatists whose work I've admired and written about in the past " are among the 54 finalists of the 2016 N…
Florida Studio Theatre continues its commitment to nurturing new works this spring with readings of three new plays " welcoming dramatists Mike Lew, Julie Marie Myatt and Will Snider " in th…
A hike along the Appalachian Trail is more fraught than expected for a grieving man in Chelsea Marcantel's new play Even Longer and Farther Away, getting its world premiere April 15-May 15 b…
A pair of former lovers reunite in middle age on Fire Island in Michael Raver's new play, Riptide, getting two Manhattan reading presentations April 18. Raising the stakes in the coincidenta…
Quick Silver Theater Company will give voice to new plays by playwrights Sergei Burbank, Guadalis Del Carmen and Shashone Lambert in developmental readings June 12-19 as part of the company&…
The American Theatre Critics Association named six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award on March 11, recognizing playwrights for th…
Alabama Story, the acclaimed historical drama by Michigan-bred playwright Kenneth Jones, will make its Wolverine State premiere in fall 2016 in a staging by The Theatre Company of the Univer…
A New York Times reporter blacklisted from working in Pakistan uses technology to connect to remote colleagues and sources in Sarah Bierstock's new play Honor Killing, getting public present…
A torturer's double life, a meeting of anguished parents, a Southern coming-of-age story and a loner holed up in a ramshackle trailer are in the mix of new works to be developed in Premiere …
Casting is set for the Florida premiere of Alabama Story, the highly theatrical new play by Kenneth Jones that charts a real-life censorship and civil rights battle set in "the Deep South of…
A lurid chapter in the recent history of the Mormon Church is dramatized in playwright-director Charles Morey's new drama The Salamander's Tale, seen in several recent developmental readings…
Legitimate theatre and NASCAR racing make a rare marriage March 3-May 7 with the world premiere of White Lightning, playwright Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder's imagining of the moonshine-runnin' r…
A Manhattan apartment building populated by newlyweds, a visiting mother-in-law, nosy neighbors and a picky co-op board is the setting of actress-playwright Nandita Shenoy's romantic comedy …
Actors Lesley Fera, Susan Pellegrino and Robert Scott Smith will be in a Pioneer Theatre Company rehearsal studio with playwright Kenneth Jones and director Karen Azenberg starting Feb. 1 fo…
New plays by Catya McMullen, Sean Williams, Brian Sutow and Hal Corley will be heard in February in the 2016 From the Ground UP New Works Reading Festival, an annual series by Ground UP Prod…
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…