Monday Night Theatre Appreciation Seminars at Theatre 40

Play readings followed by Q&A.

January 26- A Picasso by Jeffrey Hatcher. A Nazi agent summons Pablo Picasso to a storage vault for an interrogation. A battle of wits ensues

February 2- Address Unknown by Katherine Kressmann Taylor. A play told in letters. Two friends are torn apart when the Nazi regime rises to power. 

February 9 - Double Feature by John Logan. Two parallel scenes unfold: Vincent Price argues with the director of his latest horror film/Alfred Hitchcock summons Tipi Hedren to a private meeting.

February 23- Bad Jews by Joshua Harmon. The death of a beloved grandfather brings together three relatives and one outsider. The ownership of Grandfather's chai becomes a dangerously divisive issue. 

From the author of Significant Other, which was presented in last year’s Seminar Series.

March 2 - Bull in a China Shop by Bryna Turner. Inspired by the letters of Mary Wooley and Jeanette Marks. Two lovers with very different ideas of revolution work at a woman's college. A comedy.

March 16 - A Mirror by Sam Holcroft. We appear to be watching a wedding. But this is a cover for...something else. Then more layers of reality get peeled away. A play about censorship and its consequences.    

This series is curated by Dan Leslie.