The Theater Project's 'Opening Nights on Saturday Afternoons' Continues with New Works on 2/21

The Theater Project, Union County College's Professional Theater Company, will continue its winter 2009 season of Opening Nights on Saturday Afternoons, with two one-act plays by Ed Shakespeare on February 21 at 3 pm.

This series of FREE monthly staged readings of original plays from The Theater Project's Playwrights Workshop, is held at Union County College's Cranford campus, which is located at 1033 Springfield Avenue.

Ed Shakespeare, a resident of Lavallette, is a former recipient of a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship grant for his play Firehouse. He is a member of Playwright By the Sea and the South Street Players. Shakespeare is the author of the book When Baseball Returned to Brooklyn, and he writes a baseball column for the Brooklyn Paper.

Opening Nights on Saturday Afternoons is a series of original plays by members of The Theater Project's Playwrights Development Workshop, led by Mark Spina, Artistic Director. These script-in-hand performances offer the excitement and immediacy of actually sitting in on rehearsals with talented members of the Theater Project.

For more information, call (908) 659-5189; email TheaterProject@aol.com; or visit www.TheTheaterProject.org. The Theater Project is wheelchair accessible.

Admission to Opening Nights on Saturday Afternoon play reading series is free of charge, thanks to the support of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Union County College Foundation, a HEART grant (History-Education-Arts-Reaching- Thousands) from the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders, and the generosity of Ms. Stephanie Fein and Ms. Marion Curka.

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