Gary Garrison News

Ringing in its 60th year, The Provincetown Theater has announced 30 Under 30, a new ticketing initiative, in which any person 30 years of age or under may buy discounted tickets to our mainstage productions: Casa Valentina, the 4-Star Solo Show Festival, The Fantasticks, The Gale: Beware the Siren's Song, and What the Constitution Means to Me. The Provincetown Theater is committed to making their playhouse, at 238 Bradford Street in Provincetown, an accessible and enjoyable experience year round for all. 

Eight playwrights from Florida, including a past winner, have new work featured in Theatre Odyssey's 18th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts virtually hosted more than 110 outstanding theater students from colleges and universities across the nation as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF).

On the cusp of its 60th Anniversary Season, the Provincetown Theater in Provincetown, Massachusetts has announced that Gary Garrison has joined the Cape Cod nonprofit institution as managing director, effective April 1, 2023.

Following on the creative path of the 24-Hours Plays last weekend, the new play development mission of the Provincetown Theater will present a succession of one-night presentations, free-to-the-public, over the next two months of new works in their annual new play reading series, Spring Play Dates.

A NAGGING FEELING BEST NOT IGNORED began performances on July 6, and due to popular demand extended performances through September 7, 2022, featuring a post-show talkback at each performance.

The past two years have been nothing short of disorienting for everyone. With physical theaters shuttered many artists tried to make the most of “Zoom Theatre” but the electricity of live theatre proved elusive online.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts virtually hosted more than 125 outstanding theater students from colleges and universities across the nation as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. 

Boston Playwrights' Theatre announces the in-person return of its annual celebration of new short plays. Boston Theater Marathon XXIV will feature 50 ten-minute plays written by New England playwrights and presented by New England theatre companies. The event will take place in BPT's home theatre on Boston University's West Campus.

The drama examines big pharma's impact on everyday American culture through the eyes of five women on the frontlines of the opioid epidemic, blurring ethical boundaries in a love triangle fueled by money, sex and power.

In celebration of our 10th year, the Warner Theatre International Playwrights Festival will be presenting a retrospective of some of our most memorable plays and playwrights! Since our inception, the festival has produced 111 plays from around the world and across the country. 

The Warner Theatre will present its 10th Anniversary International Playwrights Festival in person and streaming live from the Nancy Marine Studio Theatre October 15 & 16, 2021.

Boston Playwrights' Theatre (BPT) today announces the new plays that will comprise its 2021-2022 season. The line-up includes LORENA: a Tabloid Epic by Eliana Pipes, Gone Nowhere by Daniel C. Blanda, Incels and Other Myths by Ally Sass, Rx Machina by Caity-Shea Violette and Beasts by Cayenne Douglass.

Each of the finalists were given the prompt  'Borders' for their submission. Each entry is evaluated for its Character Development, Ear for Authentic Speech, Camouflage of Exposition, Thrilling Story, Dramatic Structure, and Clever Use of Festival Theme. 

With over 400 submissions from around the world, this year's Hear Me Out New American Monologue Competition's founder Roland Tec has announced this year's 13 finalists.

#CHARLOTTESVILLE will be staged as part of 59E59 Theaters' 'East to Edinburgh Goes Virtual' festival from July 15-25. Tickets are $20 and include access to all nine virtual productions. Learn more about the production and how to purchase tickets here!

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced the national awardees of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, which was held virtually in convenings for each discipline that began on March 8, 2021 and continued through May 22, 2021.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced its lineup of spring and summer performances in the lead-up to its highly anticipated 50th Anniversary season. A mix of in-person, digital, and outdoor performances are designed to safely celebrate a return to live performances.

Two intergalactic trash collectors, both women, one Black, one white, are hurtling through space toward the finish of their anniversary route, ready to celebrate their return to Earth. But a surprising job sends them back out to the asteroid belt and forces them to make a devastating choice.

The winning plays, The Last Ship to Proxima Centauri by Greg Lam, In His Hands by Benjamin Benne, and Rx Machina by Caity-Shea Violette will be workshopped and given digital readings in the 32nd Annual Little Festival of the Unexpected over three weekends in March and April, starting March 12, 2021. The digital workshop performances are free and open to the public with registration.