Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Kitty Dubin’s Rights of Passage, a grouping of shorts plays addressing momentous events in the lives of disparate Jewish characters, is getting its world premiere by JET — Jewish Ensembl…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:19PMTuesday, October 18, 2016
The Co-Op of Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, CA, is presenting a workshop run of Kenneth Jones’ family dramedy Two Henrys Oct. 27-Nov. 13. Ann Bronston directs a cast featuring Lesley …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:41PMThursday, October 13, 2016
The 2016-17 Play-By-Play Reading Series by Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City will feature Requiem for August Moon by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, i by Jeff Talbott and The Ice Front by …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:30PMWednesday, August 31, 2016
A Connecticut man has fled to the New Mexico desert following an unspeakable tragedy in Vincent Delaney’s drama Las Cruces, getting its world premiere Sept. 1-18 by Premiere Stages in Unio…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:02PMSunday, August 28, 2016
Under This Roof, Barbara Kingsley’s drama of unexpected connections in the racially divided Cleveland of the late 1940s, gets a reading by Penguin Rep in Stony Point, NY, Aug. 29 as part o…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:48PMMonday, August 22, 2016
Alabama Story, the acclaimed historical drama by Michigan-bred playwright Kenneth Jones, will make its Wolverine State premiere Sept. 22-Oct. 9 in a staging by The Theatre Company …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:48AMThursday, August 11, 2016
At The Flash, a new one-man, five-character play that charts seismic cultural changes in recent gay American history, gets its New York City premiere Aug. 13-24 as part of the 2016 New York
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SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:31AMMonday, August 8, 2016
The fluid give-and-take of energy between actors on stage is sometimes referred to as “ping pong,” but a new FringeNYC play is taking the idea literally. A ping pong table and a fast-pac…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:43PMWednesday, August 3, 2016
The cast of the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater production Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones gathers for the first time Aug. 3 in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, to begin building the East Coast prem…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:14AMThursday, July 28, 2016
Some of Chicago’s best actors will begin conjuring the Deep South in northern Wisconsin on July 28, when rehearsals begin for the Midwest premiere of Kenneth Jones’ Alabama Story. The…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 08:38AMWednesday, July 27, 2016
Mark Saltzman’s fact-inspired new play Alice Formerly of Wonderland: A Musical Story of the Real Alice is among titles in the 2016 Wyoming Theater Festival, a startup initiative now in it…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:13PMSaturday, July 16, 2016
Bess Wohl’s beguiling Small Mouth Sounds, a seriocomic ensemble play about broken city folk attending a silent wellness retreat in the country, was a spring 2015 hit at Ars Nova, where the…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:22PMMonday, July 11, 2016
Off-Broadway’s TACT/The Actors Company Theatre will present the world premiere of Jeff Talbott’s The Gravedigger’s Lullaby starting in February 2017 at the Beckett Theatre at Theatre R…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 05:17PMTuesday, June 28, 2016
Mr. Bigger’s Baby, Kate Robin’s serious comedy about the life of a family seen in the context of an ailing patriarch, gets two public reading presentations in Manhattan June 29-30 as the…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:12AMMonday, June 20, 2016
A group of close friends is shaken when one of their own decides to become the caregiver of his compromised father in Jeff Talbott’s How to Build a City, getting a 29-hour reading the week…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:34AMSunday, June 12, 2016
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 …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:28AMSaturday, June 11, 2016
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 …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 05:23PMWednesday, June 8, 2016
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…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:17AMThursday, June 2, 2016
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, …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:24PMSunday, May 15, 2016
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 pre…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:22PMFriday, May 13, 2016
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…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:14AMTuesday, May 10, 2016
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 …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:49PMTuesday, April 19, 2016
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 — i…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:58PMFriday, April 15, 2016
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…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:21PMThursday, April 14, 2016
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 coinciden…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 08:40AMSunday, March 27, 2016
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&…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:03PMSaturday, March 12, 2016
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…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 08:26AMThursday, March 3, 2016
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…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:02PMWednesday, March 2, 2016
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 prese…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 07:00PMTuesday, March 1, 2016
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 Premier…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:04PMSunday, February 28, 2016
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 …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:39PM 
