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Roundabout Underground Reading Series to Launch on February 6

Sheryl Kaller
(© Tristan Fuge)
Sheryl Kaller
(© Tristan Fuge)

Roundabout Theatre Company will present the Roundabout Underground Reading Series, which will feature a nightly reading of a new play written and directed by an emerging artist, February 6-10. All readings beings at 7pm at the Harold and Laura Steinberg Center. Casting will be announced at a later date.


The series will begin with include Jordan Seavey’s The Funny Pain, directed by May Adrales. The play concerns Mary Rochelle Douleur, a woman who has a disease that makes her unable to feel physical pain, but whose emotional state is put in question once she and her older sister Mary May become rival stand-up comediennes.


Up next are Laura Jacqmin’s Two Lakes, Two Rivers, directed by Laura Savia, about a Midwestern college town where 12 boys have drowned; Joshua Elias Harmon’s Bad Jews, directed by Sheryl Kaller, about two family members who both want the religious emblem worn by their recently deceased grandfather; and Emily Schwend’s Route One Off, directed by Giovanna Sardelli, about two friends whose relationship is shaken up by the arrival of an unstable repairman,


The series will conclude Kirsten Guenther and Joy Son’s musical Little Miss Fix-It, directed by Eli Gonda, which concerns a free-spirited 11-year-old girl who tries to save her parents’ marriage and solve the problems of everyone around her.


For tickets and information, visit www.roundabouttheatre.org.