With generous funding from the Smart Foundation, and in a partnership with the Madison Arts and Culture Alliance, MCAC is presenting a play development program showcasing New Jersey women playwrights. Plays are presented in a concert reading format and feature professional actors. The event includes a post-reading conversation with the author.
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Thanks to a generous grant from the Smart Foundation, the Madison Arts and Culture Alliance, in partnership with MCAC, will present concert readings of eight new works by women playwrights from New Jersey. Writers and plays will be selected shortly.
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Get Tickets Something Blue explores female gender roles via the wedding industrial complex and investigates the unique societal expectations and pressures of marriage and singledom on the modern American women. Intercut with pivotal moments from their past, this dark comedy examines the complexity of female friendship through the lens of two best friends, Chloe, a
Get Tickets On the first night of Rosh Hashanah, Beatrice Larson, a 70-year-old New Yorker and Rita Shah, a 23-year-old actress, spend their first evening together in Beatrice’s Upper East Side apartment musing race, religion, relationships, loss, and solitude. Rita dreams of performing on stage, a challenge for a South Asian woman in 1995 facing casting
Get Tickets The stories of our mothers are overshadowed by our fathers, in a man’s world, where language is not the mother-tongue but rather, the father-tongue. Grace has always lived in the shadow of her father. On her final day of life, Grace conjures up her mother, Jeanette, and her child-self, young Grace, and the
Get Tickets Two one-act plays looking at how protecting the environment comes down to more than environmental policy. The Polar Bear by Maryanne Melloan Woods. In Southern Alaska, a Polar Bear has wandered far from its natural habitat and traps itself in the garage of Kayla and Dewey. Kayla is desperate to free the bear, but
Get Tickets Lastlines, a professional theater in Des Moines IA, is in production for the World Premiere of One Bitter Winter by celebrated playwright and Lastlines regular Michaela Bursar, and their sights are set on a move Off-Broadway. Starring a well-known television actor, a young New York stage actress, members of the local Des Moines
Lastlines, a professional theater in Des Moines IA, is in production for the World Premiere of One Bitter Winter by celebrated playwright and Lastlines regular Michaela Bursar, and their sights are set on a move Off-Broadway . Starring a well-known television actor, a young New York stage actress, members of the local Des Moines
This reading has been postponed. Please check back for a rescheduled date. On the first night of Rosh Hashanah, Beatrice Larson, a 70-year-old New Yorker and Rita Shah, a 23-year-old actress, spend their first evening together in Beatrice’s Upper East Side apartment musing race, religion, relationships, loss, and solitude. Rita dreams of performing on stage, a
INSURRECTION is a memory play that takes place in the present, whatever the present is in the presence of memory. A woman attempts to save her Father from his grief at the memory of his country’s betrayal during the McCarthy era, all the while committing a betrayal of deep moment in her own life. A
Women Playwrights Series: Insurrection by Deb Margolin– Friday, October 7, 2022 7:00 pm Read More »