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John Colton

Date of Death: December 26, 1946

Birth Place: Minnesota, USA

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Review: FUN HOME at CV Rep

This play is a very personal, journey that’s ironically relatable. It is disquieting, to its core it's more than disturbing, yet it is often hilarious, and while much of the information we learn is not light-hearted - the musical is joyous and full of laughs until it splits you in two. 

Review: MEN ON BOATS at Contemporary Theater Company

Explore the Colorado River in this taut, compelling — and darkly funny — production at the Contemporary Theater Company.

MEN ON BOATS Comes to Chenango River Theatre in June

June 3-26, Chenango River Theatre will present the area premiere of Men On Boats, a raucous and lively new play by Jaclyn Backhaus.

Palo Alto Players Announces New Performance Dates For Jaclyn Backhaus' MEN ON BOATS 

Palo Alto Players ushers in 2022 with Jaclyn Backhaus' MEN ON BOATS - a 19th century adventure story about ten men, four boats, and two rivers. Told without men, boats, or rivers.=

MEN ON BOATS Comes to Palo Alto Players in January

Palo Alto Players ushers in 2022 with Jaclyn Backhaus' MEN ON BOATS - a 19th century adventure story about ten men, four boats, and two rivers. Told without men, boats, or rivers.

An NBC TIMELESS Reunion, Marin Ireland in David Adjmi's MARIE ANTOINETTE & More to be Presented by Play-PerView

Play-PerView has announced its latest streaming programming for the coming months. For two weeks, beginning July 22nd (through August 4th), Play PerView is taking one of its biggest streaming events out of the vault in celebration of Comic-Con “@Home 2021.”

Baltimore Center Stage Announces Cast and Artistic Team for MEN ON BOATS

Baltimore Center Stage is pleased to announce the cast and artistic team for Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus. This rollicking comedy is history as you've never seen it beforea?"without a single man in sight. Join a team of explorers as they tell the true(ish) story of a?oediscoverya?? of the Grand Canyon and upend everything...including their boats. 

Baltimore Center Stage Announces Cast and Artistic Team For MEN ON BOATS

Baltimore Center Stage is pleased to announce the cast and artistic team for Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus. This rollicking comedy is history as you've never seen it beforea?"without a single man in sight. Join a team of explorers as they tell the true(ish) story of a?oediscoverya?? of the Grand Canyon and upend everythinga??including their boats. 

BWW Review: MEN ON BOATS at Strand Theater

All aboard for Jaclyn Backhaus' thrilling, testosterone-filled expedition down the Colorado River and through the wonderous gorges of the Grand Canyon in her sly and very funny take on macho adventuring mid-19th century America. Based on the journals of one-armed Civil War veteran John Wesley Powell and his ragtag band of explorers, thrill-seekers, soldiers and trappers, Backhaus' script and Tamilla Woodard's superb direction shines a keen, incisive eye on the men who 'conquered' the West, their own fears and trepidations.

Photo Flash: Circle Theatre Presents MEN ON BOATS

Ten volunteers chart the course of the Colorado River in Jaclyn Backhaus' off-the-wall comedy, Men On Boats. With a one-armed captain and a loyal crew, follow the true(ish) story of the 1869 Grand Canyon expedition. This widely acclaimed and hysterical new play closes Circle's 37th season with a splash! Will they survive the wild rapids to change the course of history?

Photo Flash: First Look at MEN ON BOATS at Circle Theatre

Ten volunteers chart the course of the Colorado River in Jaclyn Backhaus' off-the-wall comedy, Men On Boats. With a one-armed captain and a loyal crew, follow the true(ish) story of the 1869 Grand Canyon expedition. This widely acclaimed and hysterical new play closes Circle's 37th season with a splash! Will they survive the wild rapids to change the course of history?

Circle Theatre to Present MEN ON BOATS

Circle Theatre closes their 2018 season with Men on Boats.

BWW Review: Boston Premiere MEN ON BOATS

SpeakEasy Stage Company opens its 27th season with the Boston-area premiere of MEN ON BOATS, directed by Dawn Simmons, and featuring an all-female design team and a racially diverse, non-male cast. The playwright specifies in the script that the actors are to be female-identifying, trans-identifying, gender fluid, and/or non-gender-conforming, but no cisgender white males. Even as she bases the play on the known history and Major John Wesley Powell's own journal of the events on his 1869 expedition, Jaclyn Backhaus flips the narrative by altering the nature of the cast of characters.

FANCY Musical, Inspired by Reba McEntire, Gets NYC Lab

Margot Astrachan and The Peccadillo Theater Company will present a developmental lab presentation of FANCY, a new musical, on Thursday, March 16 at 4PM and Friday March 17 at 11AM and 3PM at The Westside Theatre, downstairs (407 West 43rd Street).

Photo Flash: First Look at Regional Premiere of MEN ON BOATS, Opening Tonight at American Theater Company

American Theater Company (ATC) opens the regional premiere of Jaclyn Backhaus' Men on Boats tonight, Monday, January 9. Men on Boats is the first production helmed by newly appointed ATC Artistic Director Will Davis, who also staged the production's acclaimed Off Broadway run last year. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Regional Debut of MEN ON BOATS Begins Tonight at American Theater Company

American Theater Company (ATC) presents the regional premiere of Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus, tonight, Jan. 6, through Feb. 12, 2017, immediately following the production's acclaimed Off Broadway run directed by ATC Artistic Director Will Davis at Playwrights Horizons. Davis also helms the ATC production, with an all-new Chicago cast.

All-New Chicago Cast Set for Regional Debut of MEN ON BOATS at ATC

American Theater Company (ATC) announces casting for its regional premiere of Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus, Jan. 6-Feb. 12, 2017, immediately following the production's acclaimed Off Broadway run directed by ATC Artistic Director Will Davis at Playwrights Horizons. Davis also helms the ATC production, with an all new Chicago cast.

Scoop: THE MIDDLE on ABC - Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Get all the scoop on THE MIDDLE, airing on ABC on Wednesday, July 6, 2016!

ION to Present Five All-New Original Holiday Movies

ION Television wants viewers to 'Get Wrapped Up in the Holidays,' today announcing the addition of five all-new original movies to its 2014 holiday lineup.

John Colton FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

John Colton has written 6 shows including Rain (Bookwriter), The Shanghai Gesture (Playwright), Saint Wench (Playwright), Nine Pine Street (Playwright), Rain (Author), The Shanghai Gesture (Playwright).

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