Sunday, August 2, 2026
Urbanite Theatre, the intimate Sarasota, FL, company devoted to contemporary voices, will develop new plays by Stacey Isom Campbell, Mantra Radhakrishnan and Joz Vammer in its 2026 Mode…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 12:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 19, 2026
The prismatic stream-of-consciousness narrative style of Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway has not made it easy to adapt for the stage. In the book, there’s a flui…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 12:40PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Living Room Theatre, the experiment-friendly New York and Vermont-based company that presents works in unique environments with boldly realized direction, premieres The Tyrant Play, written …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 03:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 25, 2026
Hut, Hut, Hike, my new college-set four-character play about a playwriting student charged with tutoring a star quarterback who is flunking a theater class, will get two staged readings in S…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 08:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 11, 2026
Hollywood, Nebraska, my six-actor comedy about two actresses who return to their remote hometown on family business, will get its Colorado premiere in a 2027 staging by Firehouse Theater Co…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 30, 2026
Everybody knows Reggie. She’s the beloved TV talk show host whose warm personality, down-to-earth wisdom and insightful guests have made her program a daytime sensation. But at home, thing…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 07:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2026
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 22, 2026
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 27, 2026
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 10:46PM[SHARE]Friday, February 20, 2026
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 09:51PM[SHARE]Friday, February 13, 2026
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 09:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 8, 2026
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 07:20PM[SHARE]Monday, January 26, 2026
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 20, 2026
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.…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 14, 2026
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. …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2025
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 03:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 02:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2025
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 08:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 8, 2025
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 06:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2025
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 07:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2025
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 18, 2025
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 12:25PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 10, 2025
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 02:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 9, 2025
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 12:18PM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2025
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 06:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2025
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-…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 09:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 12, 2025
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…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 12:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 11, 2024
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 …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 10:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 26, 2024
"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 …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:24PM[SHARE]Friday, September 27, 2024
Alabama Story, the drama that tells the true story of a librarian who was persecuted for protecting a children's book in 1959, will get its Chicago premiere in apt venues: bookstores. Ghostl…
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