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The Antaeus Playwrights Lab Festival The Antaeus Playwrights Lab supports a select group of award-winning, mid-career writers as they develop the classics of the future. The Lab incubates new works that provide compelling roles for actors, and creates a nurturing and supportive artistic community. Saturday, September 29 11:00 am Along The River, Almost Winter by Paula Cizmar directed by Stephanie Shroyer Perdita knows something is off in her life and she longs to know what happened to her mother in this update of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. Set along the Sacramento River Delta during the time of the Gold Rush, Along the River, Almost Winter is a journey from betrayal to forgiveness — told from the point of view of a bear. Saturday, September 29 1:30 pm The Abuelas by Stephanie Alison Walker directed by Eli Gonda Gabriela is an Argentine concert cellist living a good life in Chicago with her American husband and adjusting to life as a new mom until a visit from two strangers upends everything. The Abuelas explores the long and devastating repercussions of Argentina’s military dictatorship from 1976-1983, and the heart’s capacity for forgiveness even in the face of the harshest betrayal.
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 The Ashland New Play Festival 2018
Winning Playwrights include The Abuelas By Stephanie Alison Walker A visit from two strangers exposes a 37-year-old secret about the ongoing and devastating repercussions of the military dictatorship in Argentina in the 1970s and ‘80s. The Abuelas explores the heart’s capacity for resilience and forgiveness even in the face of the most incomprehensible betrayal. Stephanie Alison Walker is a returning ANPF Fall Festival winner, previously winning in 2016 for The Madres, which is receiving four consecutive productions in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Diego, and Austin, as part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere this year. The Abuelas is a companion piece. Walker is a NNPN Affiliate Artist and a member of the Playwrights Union and Antaeus Playwrights Lab. She lives in Los Angeles. Teatro Vista will be producing the World Premiere of The Abuelas in February of 2019. Aline Lathrop's The Hero's Wife and Minita Gandhi's Muthaland both get Jeff nominated for best new work!
 Playing at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe!
The Squirrel Plays by Mia McCullough There’s only one thing you need to know about newlyweds Tom and Sarah: they are definitely not squirrel people. Not that they judge, of course. So when they discover a critter in their attic, they’re faced with a marriage-testing decision: to exterminate, or not to exterminate? But the squirrels aren’t only invading Tom and Sarah’s home. They’ve infested the whole neighbourhood. This time, the issue doesn’t only tear Sarah and Tom apart. It threatens the peace of an entire community. Using both absurdist humour and emotional truth, award-winning playwright Mia McCullough sheds new light on timely matters. Aug 8-12, 14-27 TICKETS THE HERO'S WIFE by Aline Lathrop directed by Ann Filmer and Miguel Nunez 16th Street Theater through August 18 2018 ...it’s a lacerating and relevant portrait of how hard it can be for two people to find their way home to each other in the wake of the living nightmare of war. Kerry Reid, Chicago Tribune  The striking final moments will stay with you, as will the warmth and humor shared by the characters even as they literally fight for their relationship and try to create a world where they can exist together.
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Ripped from the headlines, Kristiana Rae Colón’s Tilikum explores captivity, violence and rebellion in a vital and visceral blend of theatre, drumming and dance. Poetic and lyrical, Tilikum calls out the power structures--both corporate and human--that ensure continued oppression, and the complicity of those willing to stand by and do nothing. Presented by Sideshow Theatre and playing June 22-July 29 at Victory Gardens.
The Hero’s Wife by Aline Lathrop premieres at 16th Street Theater July 12 – August 18, 2018. Cameron doesn’t remember in the morning what he does to Karyssa at night. She doesn’t tell him, believing his night terrors may provide a window into her new husband who just retired from the Navy SEALs.
Once In My Lifetime - A Buffalo Football Fantasy by Donna Hoke opens at Shea's Smith Theatre. For one night, fans at the downtrodden Miracle Bar discover that the impossible happens when you believe it can.
A release announcing the show calls it "the most exciting event to hit this city since the Bills made four straight trips to the Super Bowl – but with a happier ending." GUSTO
A release announcing the show calls it "the most exciting event to hit this city since the Bills made four straight trips to the Super Bowl – but with a happier ending." GUSTO
Stephanie Alison Walker's The Madres finishes its NNPN Roll at Shrewd Productions. It's 1978 in Buenos Aires, Argentina where people are disappearing right off the street but no one is talking about it...
The New Colony’s The Light by Loy A. Webb at Theater on the Lake runs 8/21 - 8/24. A surprise proposal takes an unexpected turn that upends the world of Genesis and Rashad, forcing them to confront a devastating secret from the past and putting the future of their relationship at risk. The Light is a 70-minute rollercoaster journey of laughter, romance and despair that uncovers how the power of radical love can be a healing beacon of light.
The multi-award-winning play The Madres, by North American playwright Stephanie Alison Walker, will receive its non-U.S. premiere in San Miguel, as the 2018 full production of La Troupe México. This powerful new five-character play, set in Buenos Aires in 1978, will be performed for the first time in Spanish.
D(ART) is announcing the launch of its inaugural season with David Rush’s POLICE DEAF NEAR FAR. Loosely based on actual events, POLICE DEAF NEAR FAR will follow the parallel stories of a young Deaf rights activist and two police officers as their worlds collide. POLICE DEAF NEAR FAR opens July 25th.
BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!) by Jami Brandli comes to Promethean Theatre July 21-August 25. It’s 1960 in North Orange, NJ. Clytemnestra and Medea are now discontented housewives, and Antigone is the teenage girl next door struggling with the rules of her overbearing uncle. On the surface, they’re seemingly blissful to follow the “rules” of Emily Post, the American author famous for writing on etiquette. But that’s just the surface...
Daniel Radcliffe, Cherry Jones and Bobby Cannavale in “The Lifespan of a Fact," a new play adapted from a 2012 book about the real-life, multiyear, wildly tortured editing of a magazine essay about an adolescent’s suicide. Opening October 18, 2018 at Studio 54.
Coming Soon...
Muthaland written and performed by Minita Gandhi comes to PCPA.
MCC Theater presents the New York Premiere of THE LIGHT by Loy A. Webb, directed by Logan Vaughn.
Teatro Vista announced the lineup for its 2018-19 season, including the world premiere of “The Abuelas,” by Stephanie Alison Walker.
MCC Theater presents the New York Premiere of THE LIGHT by Loy A. Webb, directed by Logan Vaughn.
Teatro Vista announced the lineup for its 2018-19 season, including the world premiere of “The Abuelas,” by Stephanie Alison Walker.
"...Walker’s play celebrates their commonality: the fierce, fearless, feminine drive to stand up, no matter the personal cost, for one’s children and for human rights. During Argentina’s seven-year “dirty war,” as many as 30,000 students, liberals and government-described “subversives” disappeared into prisons, mass graves and the ocean depths. More than 500 were pregnant women who were killed after giving birth and their babies were “adopted” by military families...
Walker’s play tells an important story, but what it really honors is a mother’s love, and the play’s hauntingly-lit closing moments illustrate just how far a mother will go for those she loves." Pam Kragen, San Diego Union Tribune
"Walker’s taut script, excellent direction, and these fine actors keep the fear and suspense levels at a nearly unbearable level throughout, reminding us once again how fragile freedom and democracy are...
It is estimated that 30,000 Argentinians were “disappeared” and never seen again. The Madres began marching in front of the Casa Rosada in 1977 and are still at it. Now focused on building a DNA database of the children who were taken from their parents and farmed out to military families under different names. To date, they have found 114 grandchildren. Don’t miss this fine, thought-provoking production." SDGLN Theater, Jean Lowerison
"After seeing The Madres at Moxie Theatre, I understand why someone living in a totalitarian surveillance state would begin to “doublethink,” Orwell’s old chestnut about believing two contradictory ideas at once—sometimes it’s a survival mechanism...
it all builds toward an innervating finale that will have you ready to take to the streets, join hands, and shout for justice." Dan Letchworth, San Diego Magazine
Walker’s play tells an important story, but what it really honors is a mother’s love, and the play’s hauntingly-lit closing moments illustrate just how far a mother will go for those she loves." Pam Kragen, San Diego Union Tribune
"Walker’s taut script, excellent direction, and these fine actors keep the fear and suspense levels at a nearly unbearable level throughout, reminding us once again how fragile freedom and democracy are...
It is estimated that 30,000 Argentinians were “disappeared” and never seen again. The Madres began marching in front of the Casa Rosada in 1977 and are still at it. Now focused on building a DNA database of the children who were taken from their parents and farmed out to military families under different names. To date, they have found 114 grandchildren. Don’t miss this fine, thought-provoking production." SDGLN Theater, Jean Lowerison
"After seeing The Madres at Moxie Theatre, I understand why someone living in a totalitarian surveillance state would begin to “doublethink,” Orwell’s old chestnut about believing two contradictory ideas at once—sometimes it’s a survival mechanism...
it all builds toward an innervating finale that will have you ready to take to the streets, join hands, and shout for justice." Dan Letchworth, San Diego Magazine
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Now Playing...
- The Madres by Stephanie Alison Walker at MOXIE Theatre is based on the true story of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, whose protest captured the world’s attention.
- The most beloved musical of all time, Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY , is back on Broadway in a lavish new production from Lincoln Center Theater. Directed by Tony winner Bartlett Sher, the stellar cast is led by Lauren Ambrose, Harry Hadden-Paton, Norbert Leo Butz, Diana Rigg, Allan Corduner, Jordan Donica, Linda Mugleston and Manu Narayan.
- Jo Cattell directs The Displaced by Isaac Gomez at Haven Theatre. The Displaced explores the wake of pain and yearning left behind when gentrification forces people out of their homes and the kind of vengeance that can come from it.
- GHOST GARDENS by Steven Simoncic at Detroit Repertory Theatre is a story of the humor, grit, denial and delusion it takes to survive in a urban village. This is a Michigan Premiere!
- MCC Theater presents the New York Premiere of THE LIGHT by Loy A. Webb , directed by Logan Vaughn.
- Once In My Lifetime - A Buffalo Football Fantasy by Donna Hoke premieres at Shea's Smith Theatre in Buffalo, New York.
- Muthaland written and performed by Minita Gandhi comes to PCPA .
- Sideshow presents the World Premiere of Tilikum by Kristiana Rae Colón.
- The Madres by Stephanie Alison Walker finishes its NNPN Roll at Shrewd Productions in Austin.
- Promethean Theatre Ensemble presents Bliss (or Emily Post is Dead!) by Jami Brandli .
- The New Colony’s The Light by Loy A. Webb comes to Theater on the Lake.
- The Hero’s Wife by Aline Lathrop premieres at 16th Street Theater.
- We are thrilled to welcome Emilio Williams to our client roster!
- Voyage Chicago interviews writer and producer, Mia McCullough of
- Reginald Edmund is one of "6 Theatre Workers You Should Know."
- Technicolor Life by Jami Brandli
- The "So-Amazing" Murga Brothers by Emilio Williams
- Tar and Feather by Kristin Idaszak
- How the Light Gets In by E. M. Lewis
- Berlin Diary by Andrea Stolowitz
- Tombolo by Terence Anthony
- Friends With Guns by Stephanie Alison Walker
Emilio Williams’ plays have been produced in Spain, Argentina, France, Estonia, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States (including productions and performances in Chicago, New York, Washington DC, and Los Angeles).
His most recent comedy “Your Problem with Men” was produced by Teatro Luna in Chicago, and has traveled to New York City, Los Angeles and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
In 2012, his one woman show “Medea’s Got Some Issues” received “Best International Show” at United Solo Festival, Off Broadway, New York City.
That same year, his comedy “Smartphones – a pocket-size farce,” received its world premiere at Trap Door Theatre in Chicago.In 2010, his “dramedy” “Tables and Beds, an unromantic comedy“was selected among 80 plays from 12 countries as the winner of the 4th Premio el EspectáculoTeatral.
His most recent comedy “Your Problem with Men” was produced by Teatro Luna in Chicago, and has traveled to New York City, Los Angeles and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
In 2012, his one woman show “Medea’s Got Some Issues” received “Best International Show” at United Solo Festival, Off Broadway, New York City.
That same year, his comedy “Smartphones – a pocket-size farce,” received its world premiere at Trap Door Theatre in Chicago.In 2010, his “dramedy” “Tables and Beds, an unromantic comedy“was selected among 80 plays from 12 countries as the winner of the 4th Premio el EspectáculoTeatral.
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