Play Reading Series

This Series gives playwrights the opportunity to showcase their works by having their plays read by seasoned professional actors in front of an audience.

The Walk-In by Jeff Millar

Monday, December 11th at 2:00 P.M. & 7:00 P.M.

This machine-gun-fast serio-absurdist play retaliates against the American health insurance system in a way that makes us laugh at the system and ourselves as well. Written by the man who has spent a lifetime dishing out sharp-toothed social satire in Tank McNamara, the iconoclastic comic strip about the nation’s obsession with sports, which he has written for decades. Mr. Millar said he devised much of this 90 minute, real-time, no-intermission play “while I was waiting on hold for my health-insurance company.”

Unwavering Light by Richard Janaro

Monday, January 8th at 2:00P.M. & 7:00 P.M.

In 1933 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, Albert Einstein gives a speech on how he arrived at the special and general theories of relativity. Einstein opens the door to his personal life telling of the journey that his family, wife and friends followed, which led to his recognition as the greatest mind of the 20th century.

The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez

Monday, March 5th at 2:00 P.M. & 7:00 P.M.

It is Passover in April 1865, and American slaves have been set free throughout the South. A Jewish Confederate soldier returns from the war to find that his home is in ruins and that his family has disappeared. Only two former slaves remain. As each man contemplates an uncertain future, they are forced to face the truth about their past, and the complexity of freedom.

Lover’s Leap by Frank Higgins

Monday, April 23rd 2:00 P.M. & 7:00 P.M.

A silent film star, whose career has been wiped out by the advent of the talkies, returns to her home town to find her ex-flame on the verge of great accomplishments, if only she can get him to acquire the vision of America that she alone can give him. A nightclub singer called The Cinnamon Chanteuse serves as a Greek chorus and sings period hits including “Ain’t We Got Fun?” “If You Want the Rainbow, You Must Have the Rain,” “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out,” and “You’re the Cream in my Coffee.”