Panel Discussion: Playwriting in the 21st Century

Featuring Theresa Rebeck, Bruce Graham and Thomas Gibbons

Wednesday, October 6 @ 7p.m.

A discussion and Q&A on the state of American theater, and how the business and craft of playwriting is evolving as well as how playwriting is impacted by screen and television writing.

What We’re Up Against

By Theresa Rebeck

Directed by Loretta Greco

October 7 @ 7PM

  A fresh look at the battle of the sexes! Set in a highly competitive architecture firm, What We’re Up Against explodes the stereotypes of the workplace, and gives us a deeper look into what it means to be female in a male-dominated career.

Casa Cushman

Written and Directed by Leigh Fondakowski

in conjunction with the Tectonic Theater Project

October 8 @ 7PM

  From the artists who created The Laramie Project and 33 Variations comes an examination of the controversial genderbending actress, Charlotte Cushman, who challenged gender stereotypes by only playing Shakespeare’s male characters on-stage.

Strongman’s Ghost

By Jeffrey Hatcher

Directed by John Rando

October 11 @ 7PM

  In a war-torn future, a General locks a Writer in a room to complete the General’s novel. But as he writes, his fiction begins to mirror what’s happening in reality. Strongman’s Ghost explores the dangerous line between fact and fiction in a world where the ‘truth’ has become acommodity.

Milk Like Sugar

By Kirsten Greenidge

Directed by Rebecca Taichman

October 18 @ 7PM

  On her sixteenth birthday Annie's friends present her with a challenge: get pregnant fast so they can have babies together. Milk is an exhilarating examination of the American Dream in the 21st Century.

How To Write A New Book For The Bible

By Bill Cain

Directed by Hal Brooks

October 21 @ 7PM

  Bill returns home in his 40s to care for his elderly mother whose body is failing but spirit is still passionately alive. How To Write A New Book For The Bible is a caregiver's poignant autobiography of family, faith, and the struggle to say goodbye.