Arlene Hutton News

Luna Stage will present a free short play festival, The Shortest of Plays for the Shortest of Days on Sunday, December 20 from 12pm through 7:30pm.

LETTERS TO SALA tells the true story of Sala Kirschner. During World War II, Sala endured seven Nazi Labor Camps. Along the way, she corresponded with friends and family, and saved every letter. Her letters kept hidden for fifty years. At 67, Sala finally shared the story with her daughter. Her letters are on display at the NY Public Library.

This weekend, Dramatists Play Service's YouTube channel, 'DPS On Air,' will feature a special reading of Natalie Margolin's new online play 'The Party Hop' starring Beanie Feldstein, Ben Platt, Ayo Edebiri, Ashley Park, Kaitlyn Dever, Catherine Cohen and more.

Even though COVID-19 interrupted An Other Theater Company's plans for their 2020-2021 season, they're metaphorically re-opening their doors for the heartwarming Last Train to Nibroc next month!

Next week, Mad Cow Theatre will be launching the first annual Women's Voices Festival of new works by emerging and established female-identifying playwrights.

Are you interested in broadening your storytelling skills? The Virtual Jumpstart Playwriting Class for Adults is for playwrights, actors, directors, designers, and anyone interested in exploring the creative process. Join in on Tuesday, September 1st and Thursday, September 3rd, 2020 from 7-9pm on Zoom.

My Life As You is a top 5 finalist in The Mad Cow's Women's play festival in Orlando, FL. The festival includes professional Zoom reading productions, Thursday, August 13th at 7pm ET/4pm PT.

Dramatists Play service has announced a new play collection created exclusively for streaming platforms, a?oeTechnical Difficulties: Plays for Online Theatrea??, is available for licensing in the United States and Canada and for both professional and amateur theater companies.

UC Santa Barbara Department of Theater and Dance LAUNCH PAD's ALONE, TOGETHER premieres today, Saturday, June 6. The festival joins acclaimed writers and directors with acting and directing students for a virtual presentation of new work and new talent.

UC Santa Barbara Department of Theater and Dance is proud to present two unique events - LAUNCH PAD's ALONE, TOGETHER and THE SPOTLIGHT PROJECT - which join acclaimed writers and directors with acting and directing students for a virtual presentation of new work and new talent.

UCSB's Launch Pad Zooms Into Action With ALONE, TOGETHER

Heartwood Theater is launching a mini-series of play readings, streamed live to audiences each week during the month of April.

As the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus shutters productions big and small across the nation, theatrical licensers have responded with a series of measures to accommodate arts institutions affected by the crisis. 

Rubicon Theatre Company of Ventura begins the new year with the West Coast Premiere of NEVER NOT ONCE, a powerful, compelling and timely new drama by CAREY CRIM. The production premiered earlier this season at JEFF DANIELS' Purple Rose Theatre. NEVER NOT ONCE previews February 5-7 and opens February 8 at Rubicon's home, 1006 E. Main Street in Ventura's Downtown Cultural District, continuing Wednesdays through Sundays through February 23. A thought-provoking response to the #MeToo movement, NEVER NOT ONCE is about the families we choose, and the secrets that can pull them apart. The production is helmed by Brit KATHARINE FARMER, who has directed acclaimed Rubicon productions of Gulf View Drive (Ovation Award, Best Production of a Play, Larger Theatre), Incognito (West Coast Premiere), Heisenberg with Faline England and Joe Spano, and South Pacific (all Critic's Choices in the L.A. Times). For tickets, call 805.667.2900 or go to www.rubicontheatre.org. 

New Light Theater Project presents Brecht: Call and Respond (an evening of three one-acts), featuring The Jewish Wife by  Bertolt Brecht with the commissioned one-acts Self Help in the Anthropocene by Kristin Idaszak and Sunset Point by Arlene Hutton.  Directed by Jerry Heymann, Brecht: Call and Respond (an evening of three one-acts) begins performances on Thursday, January 30 for a limited engagement through Saturday, February 15.  Press opening is Sunday, February 2 at 3 pm.  The performance schedule is Wednesday a?" Friday at 7:30 pm, Saturday at 2 pm & 7:30 pm, and Sunday at 3 pm. Please note the following schedule adjustments: there is no matinee performance on Saturday 2/1; there is an added performance on Tue 2/11 at 7:30 pm.  Performances are at The Paradise Factory (64 East 4th Street, between Bowery and Second Avenue). Tickets, which are on sale now, are $25. To purchase tickets, visit www.newlighttheaterproject.com.

Nylon Fusion Theatre Company will present the New York Premiere of The Listening Room, written by Michaela Jeffery (National Enbridge Playwrights Award recipient; Playwrights Guild of Canada's RBC Emerging Playwright Award finalist). and directed by Ivette Dumeng (Malan American Reconciliation at Royal Family: Jack in the Box/Medusa at Planet Connections) & Lori Kee (Luft Gangster at The Sheen Center) at The New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher Street, New York, NY 10014), November 30 - December 21. Performances will be on Saturday, November 30 at 8pm, Sunday, December 1 at 8pm, Monday, December 2 at 8pm, Friday,

For one week each, beginning on August 6, three professional playwrights-in-residence will develop their new works in active collaboration with some of Santa Barbara's favorite actors and a cadre of talented UC Santa Barbara students as part of LAUNCH PAD's 6th annual Summer Reading Series. 

The Big Bridge Theatre Consortium (BBTC), a group of 10 university theatre departments dedicated to peace and interfaith dialogue, has commissioned Rohina Malik as its second playwright in a three-part series of plays dedicated to combating the issues of xenophobia, sectarianism and racism within the U.S.

Parity Productions, the New York based theatre company dedicated to producing new work and filling at least 50% of the creative positions (playwrights, directors, and designers) with women and/or trans and gender nonconforming (TCNG) artists, is pleased to announce its selection to the 2019/2020 Season of Next Door at New York Theatre Workshop for its world premiere production of Mirrors by 2018 Parity Commission Winner Azure D. Osborne-Lee, to be directed by Parity's Founder and Artistic Director, Ludovica Villar-Hauser.

Parity Productions, the New York based theatre company dedicated to producing new work and filling at least 50% of the creative positions (playwrights, directors, and designers) with women and/or trans and gender nonconforming (TCNG) artists, opened Charlie's Waiting by Inaugural Parity Commission Winner Melisa Annis on March 31 at Theaterlab (357 W 36th St, New York, NY 10018) hosted by TLab Shares. Charlie's Waiting is playing an extended run of 21 performances now through April 20. The cast is led by Tony nominee Xanthe Elbrick (Broadway: Coram Boy, Candida), and features Stephanie Heitman (A Snowfall in Berlin), and Amy Scanlon (Balladeers Play to the Moon) and is directed by Parity Productions Artistic Director, Ludovica Villar Hauser.