Next Generation Playwriting Contest Reading

Next Generation Playwriting Contest Reading is a reading of all finalists:

Sunday, May 2 @ 7pm
A Park Slope Story
By Eric Winick; Directed by Alyse Rothman
“Harold and Maude” meets “The Graduate” in this affectionate tale of two Brooklyn lonely hearts whose need for companionship and desire to transcend loss leads them into an unconventional friendship, much to the horror of their friends.

Sunday, May 9 @ 7pm
Strange Rain
by Lynda Crawford
A moody noir play about the weather and a search for what’s real, set in the present and the 1950s.

Tuesday, May 11 @ 7pm
Leap
by John Yearly; directed by Erma Duricko
A comedy about: amnesia, death, mourning, regret, denial, suffering and loss.

Sunday, May 16 @ 7pm
A Question of Color
by Michael Bettencourt; directed by Ria Cooper
In North Carolina in 1907, two people, John Wicks (white) and Susan Morgan (black), marry despite a prohibition against inter-racial marriages. The play follows Susan and John as they struggle to live under the shadow cast by color and prejudice.

Sunday, May 23 at 7pm
A Little Rebellion Now
by Lisa Voss; directed by Susanna Harris
D.C. statehood activists form an uneasy alliance with IMF-World Bank protestors and attempt to secede from the Union. Branded as “terrorists”, the rebels soon find themselves facing down armed US soldiers, and resolve to stand their ground.

Dutch Masters: Or, A Black Kid and A White Kid
by Greg Keller; directed by Brian Roff
This is based on a true story about a kid on the subway who happens to be white, who meets a kid on the subway who happens to be black.