ATHE Disabillity in Theatre and Performance does a Zoom readingn of A Playwright nwith the Palsy
Semi-finalist, Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries” competition.
Wounds Invisible was named a semi-finalist, for the fourth year of the “Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries” competition, 2020-21, American Shakespeare Center.
Make a reservation for the Bowery Poetry Club launch of Rattapallax Magazine’s “Parkinson’s Poetry” issue, including a reading of an excerpt from A Puppeteer with the Palsy Apologizes to his Puppet.
Click here to reserve for the event, on April 28th at 6PM EDT
New one-act play adapted from A Puppeteer with the Palsy … to be published in on-line magazine.
A Puppeteer with the Palsy Apologizes to his Puppet, a ten-minute play adapted from A Puppeteer with the Palsy Performs Scenes from Shakespeare, or, The Ghost in the Machine, has been selected to appear in the on-line magazine, Rattapallax, for their issue “Parkinson’s Poetry.” Stay tuned for details of a reading of an excerpt from the play at the launch event, Zoomed from the Bowery Poetry Club on April 28 at 6PM, EDT.
Script-in-hand reading of Shylock’s Beard on Zoom, Sunday August 2, 2020
The Jewish Collaborative of Orange County is presenting a script-in hand reading of Shylock’s Beard, directed by Abi Steinberg, via Zoom, on Sunday, August 2, 3 to 5PM PACIFIC TIME (= 6 to 8PM Eastern Time.)
To register for the event, click here.
Semi-finalist, Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries” competition.
Kicky-Wicky was named a semi-finalist, for the third year of the “Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries” competition, 2019-20, American Shakespeare Center.
Finalist for the Judith Royer Award of Excellence in Playwriting
Dear Birthmother Letter was named a finalist for the Judith Royer Award of Excellence in Playwriting, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, 2019.
Script-in-hand reading of Benefit Performance, or, The Other Jew
A Script-in-hand reading
7:30 PM, Thursday, March 7
Tufts University Hillel
220 Packard Ave., Medford, MA 02155
In 1858 New Orleans, theatre manager and playwright George Washington Lazarus has two problems on his hands, and both of them involve trial scenes: an actor in his own company has chosen to play Shylock for a benefit performance; and his trial for first-degree murder begins the next day. Lazarus refuses to defend himself; but his wife and daughter may have other plans.
Inspired by people, events, and plays featured in the Bernard Hewitt Award-winning book, Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage, by Heather Nathans, Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies Tufts University
featuring:
Laurence Senelick
Barbara Wallace Grossman
Teri Incampo
Ali-Reza Mirsajadi
Shylock’s Beard reading
An excerpt from SHYLOCK’S BEARD will be presente at the annual conference of the Alliance for Jewish Theatre, at the Drake in Philadelphia, on October 22.
Cary Mazer 