The Warner Theatre will present its 12th Annual International Playwrights Festival held in the Warner’s Nancy Marine Studio Theatre, 84 Main St., Oct. 13 and 14 at 8 p.m. The mission of the International Playwrights Festival is to recognize the work of emerging and established playwrights and to bui
Attending a new play festival is like celebrating your birthday, or Christmas: these unknown plays are nicely wrapped gifts; you have no idea what’s inside until you open them. With a new play festival, you’re seeing brand new plays that have never been produced, not familiar plays you may have seen elsewhere before. Other than
PHOTO COURTESY Attending a new play festival is like celebrating your birthday, or Christmas: these unknown plays are nicely wrapped gifts; you have no idea what’s inside until you open them. With a new play festival, you’re seeing brand new plays that have never been produced, not familiar plays you may have seen elsewhere before.
April 14, 2021
BY NANCY SASSO JANIS | REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
TORRINGTON–The final installation of the virtual edition of the Warner Theatreâs ninth annual International Playwrights Festival premiered on YouTube over the weekend. Humans Lea Dmytryck and Beth Steinberg, along with stuffed dog Marla Steinberg and real dog Stella Luna Ray, star in âSaul,â a one-act play written by Colleen OâDoherty.
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Beth Steinberg is Bernie, left, and Lea Dmytryck is Nancy in the play âSaulâ at the Warner Theatre.
The playwright, who holds a master of fine arts in play and screenwriting from the University of Nebraska, shares that she wrote this piece for a friend who has been living with AIDS for many years.