Pride Films and Plays Announces Great Gay Play Fest, 3/3-3/6

The schedule has been set for the five new plays that will be performed as staged readings in the Great Gay Play Fest March 3 - 6, 2011, at the Hoover-Leppen Theater at the Center on Halsted in Chicago. These five scripts have been selected by our esteemed reading panel from fresh GLBT work submitted from around the country, and includes work by new writers, as well as that from those already working in the industry. Five esteemed Chicago directors are working to make these plays a reality.

The schedule for the weekend is as follows:

Program A: Thursday, March 3, 7:00 pm,
False Reality by Joe Lauderdale, Los Angeles, CA,
Directed by Patrick Rybarczyk

Program B: Friday, March 4, 7:00 pm,
Short Expanse by Corinne J. Kawecki, Chicago, IL,
Directed by Liz Pazik

Program C: Saturday, March 5, 4:00
Learn To Be Latina by Enrique Urueta, San Francisco, CA,
Directed by Eddie Torres

Program D: Saturday, March 5, 7:00,
Save the Date by Tyler Dean, Chicago, IL,
Directed by John Nasca

Program E: Sunday, March 6, 4:00 pm,
The Times by Mark S. Watson, Key West, FL,
Directed by David Zak

All tickets for the weekend are $10, with student and industry tickets $5. A weekend pass to see all five shows is $25. Tickets may be ordered at Brown Paper Tickets, 1800 838 3006 or www.brownpapertickets.com.

After the final reading on Sunday, Pride Films and Plays will announce both an Audience Favorite Award, and the juried winner. Our reading panel included Marshall W. Mason, Jason Moore, Doug Finlayson, Patricia Kane, Jeremy Cohen, Patrick Trettenero, Brian Fonseca, and theater professionals across the country.

For more information, visit www.pridefilmsandplays.com.

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