September 2013: NYC Staged Readings
The Fall theater schedule in New York City is packed with staged readings from some amazing artists at the Lark Play Development Center, MCC Theater, WorkShop Theater Company, 1st Irish Festival, & Amas Musical Theatre.
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20th Annual Playwrights’ Week
During the Lark Play Development Center’s Playwrights’ Week writers participate in an intensive seven-day retreat, during which each play receives ten hours of rehearsal in advance of a public staged reading. The works to be presented this year are:
Deacon of the Bronx, Matt Dellapina, September 25
Dreams of the Penny Gods, Callie Kimball, September 25
Guadalupe in the Guest Room, Tony Meneses, September 26
Lasso of Truth, Carson Kreitzer, September 27
Fight Call, Jessica Brickman, September 27
The Tomb of King Tot, Eric Dufault, September 28
Perse, August Schulenburg, September 28
PlayLabs
MCC Theater, a leading New York City theater production company, is host to PlayLabs, a free series that debuts fresh works and is open to the public. PlayLabs focuses on exhilarating new plays that possess a unique voice.
Next:
Owned, Julian Sheppard, September 9
Absolution, Brooke Berman, September 16
Mike and Seth, Daniel Talbott, September 23
Nicholas Maeve Marianne, Matthew Stephen Smith, September 30
WorkShop Theater Company
The WorkShop Theater Company continues their reading series in the Fall of 2013 with three new shows. Unlike most reading series that perform each play only once, this series performs each play three times, once on three consecutive evenings.
Next:
Parish Dunkeld, Mark Loewenstern, September 19-21
Off the Rack, Riley Jones-Cohen, September 26-28
Eye to Eye, Eddie Antar, October 3-5
Festival of Irish Theater: Reading
Origin Theatre Company, a not-for-profit company that presents U.S. premiers of emerging European playwrights, is hosting its 6th annual Festival of Irish Theater. The festival hosts many events, including full scale productions, concerts, screenings, and two readings, one of a stage play and another of a screenplay.
Next:
The Chicken House, Bernard McMullen, September 16 (screenplay)
Maybe, Jimmy Kerr, September 26 (play)
The Amas Musical Theatre Lab
Amas Musical Theatre is devoted to the creation, development, and production of new American musicals, the celebration of diversity and minority perspectives, and the training and encouragement of inner-city young people. They have two lab performances of new musicals coming up this September.
Next:
notes to MariAnne, David Rossmer and Dan Lipton, September 12 (SOLD OUT)
Cookin’!, Debra Barsha and Hollye Leven, September 25 and 26