Today Keen Company Artistic Director Jonathan Silverstein announced the company for the 22nd Annual Benefit Gala, a virtual evening of extraordinary performances, musical entertainment, and backstage stories from stars of stage and screen, all in honor of Pearl Cleage.
Launch: A Docuseries, John J. Caswell, Jr. and Bleu Beckford-Burrell
Page 73, the play development company highlighting early-career playwrights, will take two of its Playwriting Fellows through to production this season. John J. Caswell, Jr.âs
Man Cave and Bleu Beckford-Burrellâs
La Race will both take the stage for live audiences in 2022.
Caswell was named a Page 73 Playwriting Fellow in 2017, and Beckford-Burrell is the current 2021 Fellow. Both playwrights have received summer residencies and have been members of the Interstate 73 Writers Group.
Caswell s
Man Cave centers on a group of friends in Sedona, Arizona, who convert a luxurious basement man cave into their own spiritual war room and protective sanctuary from the violence of men, both real and supernatural. Beckford-Burrell s
Page 73 today announced a new playwright-supporting initiative: self-directed retreats, tailored to writers individual needs and preferences. In lieu of the organization s usual Summer Residency, this year Page 73 offers four playwrights in its community-current Page 73 Fellows Bleu Beckford-Burrell and Emma Goidel, two-time Interstate 73 member Amina Henry, and 2019 Interstate 73 member Jessica Huang-the opportunity to design their own week-long professional writing retreats, with Page 73 covering expenses for housing, travel, and food, with an additional $1,000 stipend.
Across their respective retreats, the playwrights will have regular check-ins with the Page 73 artistic team and document moments of their trip to share upon their return. In August, Page 73 will hold a public Zoom event, bringing the four playwrights together to recount their writing experiences, with Page 73 Artistic Director Michael Walkup and Page 73 Associate Producer Kari Olmon.
Premiere Stages At Kean University Announces Readings Of Premiere Play Festival Finalists
The Festival is an annual competition for unproduced scripts that offers developmental opportunities to playwrights.by BWW News Desk
Premiere Stages has announced public readings of three of the 2020 Play Festival Finalists, which had been postponed in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions.
The Festival is an annual competition for unproduced scripts that offers developmental opportunities to playwrights with strong affiliations to New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Delaware. The readings will be held virtually via Zoom and are free to the public. A live Q&A with the playwrights will follow each reading.