This year's festival will feature two productions of new plays in repertoire by third year MFA playwright Jayne Deely and visiting professor of playwriting Diana Grisanti. The festival will also showcase staged readings of new plays by MFA playwriting candidates, Annalise Cain, and David Davila, several panels with esteemed guests, and Undergrad Shorts, an evening of short plays written by undergraduate playwrights.
After Tragedy, an Indianapolis Theater Stages a Comeback
Bryan Fonseca, the founder of a notable company, died of complications from Covid-19. But at the theater named for him, the show goes on.
Latrice Young in the premiere of “Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too August Wilson)” at the Fonseca Theater Company in Indianapolis.Credit.Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times
May 24, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS On a breezy, 80-degree evening, the sun still in the sky, the actor Chandra Lynch walked to the center of the Fonseca Theater Company’s outdoor stage-in-the-round. At her back was a semicircle of oversized blocks, each with printed words that together formed the sentence “Blackness iz not a monolith.”
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