Donna Hoke News

Student blogger Macy is sharing 28 plays by Queer playwrights for the month of February!

I give you a 28 plays by queer playwrights in 28 days reading list. Shoutout to The New Play Exchange. 

At Home Artist Project Presents: A Short Play Festival, featuring three short length plays. At Home Artists Project is a virtual space for new work.

Redhouse Art’s Center has announced the two plays that will take part in  this year’s New Works Festival. The first is “Esmeranda’s Gift (Or How to Make a Crossword Puzzle and Solve  Your Life.)” by Donna Hoke and the second is “Repair of the World” by Paul Sambol.

Road Less Traveled Productions has announced new and original programming for fall 2020.

September is Copyright Advocacy Month at the Dramatists Guild! For 30 days, the DG will share tips on what exactly copyright means, how it benefits theatrical writers, and what you can do to protect your copyright.

Hearts of Stone, by Donna Hoke, directed by Willow Jade Norton, and co-produced by Arts at the Palace (AATP) and Women's Theatre Festival (WTF), streams live July 24-25, 2020, with additional recorded performances to be announced.

Palm Beach Dramaworks is presenting a series of weekly readings of evolving plays. The plays can be viewed for free by the public. A few hours after the conclusion of the play, a recording of the presentation can be seen on Palm Beach Dramawork's YouTube Channel. The project involves the audience in helping determine which plays will be included in the 2021 New Year/New Plays Festival. The audience may contribute to a 'talkback' by entering their question or comment in the Q&A section at the bottom center of their screen. The readings are free, but reservations are required.

Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) has announced its 2020-2021 season at the Road Less Traveled Theater. The company's 17th season will feature five plays, four of which written by female playwrights and one of them, a world-premiere.

In only it's second year, the Wet Paint - New Play Festival has managed to round up B'way veterans (Johanna Leister, Layan Elwazani), TV stars (Christopher Shyer, Rachel Handler), & Amazon Best-Selling authors (Edward Medina) to participate in a barebones development series of short-performances. This year's festival has a theme: Walls, and with that theme, Point-Blank Theatre Co. received a unique submission. William Hobbs, a member of Voices Inside, an inmate writing/theatre program at Northpoint Training Center in KY, submitted his play, A Spider's Web and was accepted among dozens of NYC playwright applicants.

InProximity Theatre Company's PROJECT W Theatre Festival is currently seeking submissions for contemporary non-musical plays written by women and female-identifying writers. Project W Theatre Festival will take place September 2019.

Join Rainbow Theatre Project as we present a staged reading of Stonewall: 50, a collection of new short plays that celebrate the legacy and worldwide changes that started from the Stonewall events in June 1969.

The seventh annual In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY will kick off on Monday, April 29 at 7pm at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo at NYU (24 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011) with the Opening Night Rainbow Jubilee, an international celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising.

Plays In Progress is a unique program to fostering new works by women playwrights. Each Spring playwrights are invited to submit previously unproduced plays which are read and scored by a team of readers.

The Warner Theatre will present its 7th Annual International Playwrights Festival held in the Warner's Nancy Marine Studio Theatre on October 12 and 13, 2018. The mission of the International Playwrights Festival is to recognize the work of emerging and established playwrights and to build a link between the playwrights, the theatre community and our audiences.

Gulfshore Playhouse's Sixth Annual New Works Festival takes place October 4-7, and it is not one to be missed! This is a very unique chance to get an inside look at the process of creating a new play and bringing it to life.

Gulfshore Playhouse, Naples' premiere professional theatre, has announced the finalists for its Sixth Annual New Works Festival, which brings together playwrights, actors and directors from across the country for a weeklong workshop culminating in a series of staged readings.

This summer, Bills fans, Buffalo fans, and theater fans can begin the 2018 season with an exciting new play that is a love letter to all of them. Written by WNY's award-winning playwright Donna Hoke, ONCE IN MY LIFETIME: A Buffalo Football Fantasy is the most exciting event to hit the Queen City since the Bills made four straight trips to the Super Bowl--but with a happier ending. This one-of-a kind presentation employs an entirely local creative team of Buffalo's finest theater professionals and will feature a surprise cameo each night.

What could be more natural than watching a Bills game in a local bar? That's the setting for a new play by local playwright Donna Hoke. It's called Once In My Lifetime, A Buffalo Football Fantasy.

Scott Norwood, the kicker who embedded 'wide right' into the national lexicon, returns to Buffalo, New York this Saturday to appear in a play about--what else?--the Bills winning the Super Bowl.