Genesis Theatrical Productions Presents The Latest In Their First Generation Series Of New Plays

Genesis Will Present Staged Readings Of 4 Of The Newest Plays Currently Available.

A staged reading is a form of theatre without sets or full costumes. The actors, who read from scripts, may be seated, stand in fixed positions, or incorporate minimal stage movement.

MAY 3, 2017 at 7:30pm
'THE TRIAL OF HERSCHEL GREEN'
by Barbara Trainin Blank and Dean Kaner

The play was inspired by true events--events that changed the course of history. On November 7, 1938, Herschel Green, a German Jewish emigre, shot a Nazi official at the German Embassy in Paris to avenge the treatment of his family and other Jews in Germany. A day later, the official mysteriously died. On November 9 and 10 in Germany and Austria, the Nazis executed the revenge known as "The Night Of Broken Glass"-destroying thousands of Jewish-owned businesses and hundreds of synagogues, and sending 30,000 Jews to concentration camps. Herschel Green was brought to trial. The Trial Of Herschel Green is a courtroom battle of conspiracy theories played out between the Nazi prosecutor and French defense attorney. The question is: Who really killed Von Hinter, and why?

At the Buena space of the Pride Arts Center
4147 N. Broadway

MAY 24, 2017, 7:30pm

"TWO LIGHTS/ THE HOPPER PLAY"
By Brett Busang

Two Lights is about two artists who, because one is more successful than the other, find that their marriage is as fragile a thing as their egos. It is loosely based on Edward and Jo Hopper - who were never quite so frank about their troubles - and is set in the early 1940's.

At the Buena Space of the Pride Arts Center
4147 N. Broadway

JUNE 13, 2017 at 7:30pm
"OLD ROMEO"
By Joe Powers

Joe Powers' two act play about a short order cook in a small Texas town who drifts in and out of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

At the Broadway space of the Pride Arts Center
4139 N. Broadway

June 27, 2017 at 7:30pm
"ARBUCKLE'S RAPE"
by Louis Philips

A look at the scandal surrounding silent film superstar Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
The first media frenzy over a celebrity's private life

At the Buena space of the Pride Arts Center
4147 N. Broadway

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AND COMING IN JUNE, A SPECIAL STAGED READING AT THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM
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