Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Iowa Stage Theatre Company, the resident professional theater in Des Moines, has added the six-actor drama Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones to its 2018-19 Scriptease series of concert readings…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:02PMMonday, November 26, 2018
Red Mountain Theatre Company in Birmingham, Alabama, will continue its commitment to new works in spring 2019 with a developmental production of Kenneth Jones’ Florida-set, three-character…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 05:17PMFriday, November 16, 2018
Alma Theatre Company in California’s Bay Area will present Kenneth Jones’ six-actor comedy-drama Hollywood, Nebraska, about two actresses coincidentally returning to their rural hometow…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:21AMTuesday, November 13, 2018
Creative people whose heyday was yesteryear struggle with desires, secrets and their very existence as they reach middle age in All Save One, a new award-winning comedy-drama by Greg Jones E…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:39PMWednesday, October 31, 2018
Life is a little sweeter because of the catalog of albums released over the years by PS Classics, the indie label devoted to the heritage of musical theater and the American Songbook. If you…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:15PMMonday, October 15, 2018
Alabama Shakespeare Festival resurrects its longtime new play development program Oct. 19-21, 2018, replacing the past name, Southern Writers Project, with Southern Writers Festival of New P…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:47PMThursday, October 11, 2018
Premiere Stages, the resident professional theater at Kean University in New Jersey, continues its commitment to new American plays with the world premiere of Martin Casella’s historical d…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 05:30PMFriday, October 5, 2018
An immigrant art teacher in Utah becomes a target of conservative parents and administrators in a complicated rural landscape of children at risk, substance abuse, religious intolerance and …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 07:15PMSunday, September 23, 2018
The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, PEN America and Butler University’s theater department are partnering to present a one-night-only staged reading of Kenneth Jones’ fact-inspired cen…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:32PMTuesday, September 4, 2018
Alma Theatre Company in California’s Bay Area is launching its Fresh, Raw and Wild New Play Reading Series with Enid Graham’s ensemble drama What Martha Did Sept. 15 at Phoenix Theatre I…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:46PMWednesday, August 15, 2018
Wyoming Theater Festival, the not-for-profit company devoted to producing workshop productions of new plays and musicals in the quiet of the High Plains, far from commercial pressures, wi…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 05:27PMMonday, May 28, 2018
She Calls Me Firefly, the new play by Teresa Lotz in which painful memories buzz through the air like insects seeking a lamp, gets its world premiere June 6-23, 2018, at Off-Broadway’s SoH…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:47PMTuesday, May 22, 2018
Alabama Story will make its Ohio premiere by opening the 39th season of Ensemble Theatre, the ambitious indie company in Cleveland Heights known for its commitment to modern classics — li…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:45PMSunday, May 13, 2018
A young barkeep gets late-night advice (and a hard-to-refuse offer) from a world-weary drinker in Now and Then, the new four-actor romance by Sean Grennan that will have its world premiere b…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:28PMSunday, April 29, 2018
This week marks a publishing milestone related to one of the more colorful and ugly footnotes in a cross-section of American subjects, from children’s literature to civil rights to censors…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 07:29PMUnder This Roof, Barbara Kingsley’s drama of unexpected connections in the racially divided Cleveland of the late 1940s, gets its world premiere May 4-20 in a Minnesota production by Full…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:08PMTuesday, April 17, 2018
Civics and Humanities for Non-Majors, the new play by Jeff Talbott teeming with college-age characters trying to form student organizations in two eras, in 1976 and 2016, gets its world prem…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 07:40PMSunday, April 15, 2018
Kelli Kerslake Colaco’s fact-inspired crime drama with folk songs, you are my sunshine, will get a six-performance Equity developmental staging in San Francisco by Alma Theatre Company Apr…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 05:05PMThursday, March 1, 2018
A true story of censorship and Civil Rights will leap from the pages of history and into its Washington, DC premiere in Washington Stage Guild’s production of Kenneth Jones’ six-actor pl…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:18PMMonday, February 26, 2018
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis will produce Kenneth Jones’ censorship-and-social-justice drama Alabama Story in January 2019, marking the 60th anniversary of the real-life controversy that…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:56PMSaturday, February 10, 2018
Jeff Talbott’s The Gravedigger’s Lullaby, the new four-actor drama about hardscrabble lives and an opportunity to crawl out of the dirt, has been published by Dramatic Publishing and is…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:04PMSaturday, January 13, 2018
Workplace harassment is center stage — literally — in Shelley McPherson’s timely new backstage drama Knifeplay, getting a reading Jan. 13 in Boomerang Theatre Company’s First Flight …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:24PMMonday, January 1, 2018
Colleen Baum, Todd Gearhart, Kathleen McElfresh and Nafeesa Monroe will populate Pioneer Theatre Company’s world-premiere production of Jeff Talbott’s drama i in Salt Lake City. PTC arti…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:34PMMonday, December 11, 2017
Alabama Story, the six-actor play by Kenneth Jones that sheds a light on American character through the lens of the Deep South of the Civil Rights era, will get its Alabama debut — in Birm…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:52AMMonday, November 27, 2017
Alabama Story, the six-actor drama by Kenneth Jones in which real and fictional characters leap off the history pages and into “the Deep South of the imagination,” will get its Texas pre…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:08AMWednesday, November 22, 2017
The West Coast premiere of Alabama Story, Kenneth Jones’ social-justice drama set in “the Deep South of the imagination,” will feature Karen DeHart, Erik Gandolfi, Bezachin Jifar, Stev…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:44AMWednesday, November 8, 2017
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 Clar…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:58PMThursday, November 2, 2017
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 Temp…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:42PMThursday, October 26, 2017
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…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:05PMTuesday, October 3, 2017
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 sta…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 05:14PMThursday, September 28, 2017
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 read…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:59PM