Teachers to visit BG workplaces to help students find career paths – BG Independent News bgindependentmedia.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bgindependentmedia.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Photo provided by Scott Myers
Ed Nahhat to virtually premier original comedy, ‘Hope Canyon’
Advertisement
ROYAL OAK While live theater has been put on the back burner during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ed Nahhat, longtime attorney, Royal Oak High School drama coach and founder of Shakespeare Royal Oak, used the downtime to finish a comedy he had begun writing a decade ago.
The Feb. 27 virtual premier of Nahhat’s original play, titled “Hope Canyon,” will feature six actors from the area in the form of a table read. Patrons are encouraged to sign up for a limited number of free tickets for the unprecedented event.
On Saturday, February 27 Shakespeare Royal Oak will host a virtual play reading of the new original comedy Hope Canyon by Edward Nahhat. Tickets for this FREE event with a limited number available now at shakespeareroyaloak.com.
All attendees will be invited to join the professional cast and playwright immediately after the reading for a live conversation.
Before he was a well-known area lawyer and long before he founded Shakespeare Royal Oak, Royal Oak native Edward Nahhat (BFA Wayne State 1983) was an Equity actor, an Off-Broadway produced playwright, and a director of his alma matter Royal Oak High School Drama Club. When Covid-19 brought his non-lawyer activites to a halt, Nahhat decided to finish writing the play he d been drafting for a decade, Hope Canyon.