NYCPlaywrights February 17, 2024
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*** FREE THEATER IN NYC ***
Fight or Flight
The 2024 Black Men Talk Play Festival is aimed at recognizing the voices and stories of Black male playwrights. The project is created by a playwright from Chicago where the festival will be held and selected plays will be produced in August 2024.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** PRESIDENTS DAY ON STAGE ***
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1938 play by Robert Sherwood. It is a study in the life of you-know-who, starting with Lincoln as a young man in his twenties in search of his destiny. He loves and loses Ann Rutlege, marries Mary Todd, overcomes a pile of debt incurred when his general store fails, and establishes himself as a lawyer and a politician. The third act of the play deals with Lincoln's famous campaign against Stephen Douglas for the U.S. Senate in 1858, then his campaign against Douglas again (and others) for the presidency in 1860. The play ends as Lincoln leaves for Washington to be inaugurated.
More...
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Theatre/AbeLincolnInIllinois
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General George Washington
The career of ambitious General and statesman, President George Washington, is traced amidst the turmoil and conflicts surrounding the nation’s founding. Memorable period music and authentic storytelling punctuates the saga of Washington’s ascent to power and a legacy influential to this day.
More...
https://lifehousetheater.com/2023/06/12/general-george-washington-2/
***
Every audience has the same experience at Abraham Lincoln, and I laugh privately when I think of that experience. The curtain goes up on a highly commonplace little parlour, and a few ordinary people chatting in a highly commonplace manner. They keep on chatting. The audience thinks to itself: "I've been done! What is this interminable small talk?" And it wants to call out a protest: "Hi! You fellows on the stage! Have you forgotten that there is an audience on the other side of the footlights, waiting for something to happen?" (Truly the ordinary people in the parlour do seem to be unaware of the existence of any audience.) But wait, audience! Already the author is winding his chains about you. Though you may not suspect it, you are already bound.... At the end of the first scene the audience, vaguely feeling the spell, wonders what on earth the nature of the spell is. At the end of the play it is perhaps still wondering what precisely the nature of the spell is.... But it fully and rapturously admits the reality of the spell. Indeed after the fall of the curtain, and after many falls of the curtain, the spell persists; the audience somehow cannot leave its seats, and the thought of the worry of the journey home and of last busses and trains is banished. Strange phenomenon! It occurs every night.
Intro to ABRAHAM LINCOLN by John Drinkwater - available on Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11172/11172-h/11172-h.htm
***
Cato, by Joseph Addison, staged through the lens of the 1778 Valley Forge performance for and with George Washington’s troops.
Setting: The play, which premiered in 1713 and was performed at Valley Forge in 1778, unfolds on the last day of Cato the Younger’s life, as Julius Caesar makes his march as dictator across the African continent and the colonial outposts of republican Rome.
More...
https://clarencebrowntheatre.com/cato/
***
To portray Abraham Lincoln in flesh and blood on the stage is to be the somewhat daring attempt of a young American who is at once his own playwright and leading man. Just a week after Lincoln's Birthday will be seen for the first time in Hartford, Conn., a character drama by Benjamin Chapin, which is called "Lincoln," and in which the personality of the great President plays a dominant part.
More...
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/02/04/101765237.html?pageNumber=48
***
Theatre had an odd way of paying Washington back though. There are are surprisingly few stage plays about the “Father of Our Country” and/or the parts of the Revolution he took part in. Just a couple spring to mind: Percy MacKaye’s George Washington (1920), starring Walter Hampden and directed by Robert Edmond Jones; and Maxwell Anderson’s Valley Forge (1935), which was made into a tv movie with Richard Basehart 40 years later...
More...
https://travsd.wordpress.com/2023/02/22/george-washington-on-stage-and-screen/
***
The Spirit of Lincoln, a play/musical written by Illinois native, Ken Bradbury, recounts the real-life stories of people affected by Lincoln’s spirit and ideologies, while exploring the themes of friendship, bravery, racism, and social justice that are still relevant today. Experience first-hand the lasting impact Abraham Lincoln had on his central Illinois community and beyond.
More...
http://springfieldtheatrecentre.com/spirit-of-lincoln/
*** FREE THEATER IN NYC ***
Fight or Flight
by Allison Furlong
Sunday, March 10 · 7 - 8:30pm EDT
TADA! Youth Theater, West 28th Street, New York, NY, USA
15 West 28th Street New York, NY 10001
Within the confines of a small airplane, four girls, each in different years of their college career, get to know one another over the span of the 50 minute flight. Their views on social injustices, race, and politics are all tested through faux-polite (and sometimes outright impolite) conversation with one another. The play tackles everything from school shootings, suicide, and sexuality, to whether or not Prince William is hot. Each of the characters start off as complete strangers and leave the flight knowing more about one another than their closest friends do. No phone numbers or instagrams are exchanged. These girls meet one another, and then continue on their individual journeys. Their backgrounds and “classiness” define how they talk to one another, but at their core, this is a play about 4 girls just hanging out and being there for each other for a fleeting moment in time.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fight-or-flight-an-off-broadway-premiere-of-a-play-by-allison-furlong-tickets-839549343687?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
*** NYCPLAYWRIGHTS ZOOMERS ***
You can sit in on a Zoomers meeting for free - let us know which Monday you want to join us by dropping a line to na...@nycplaywrights.org
Learn about the group here: https://nycp-zoomers.blogspot.com
*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
As a part of our 10th annual season, the Barr Hill Players (BHP) will present a staged reading of new works by emerging playwrights. Selected scripts will be workshopped by our ensemble of acting fellows during the BHP summer intensive in Greensboro, VT, then presented for a developmental staged reading at La MaMa Galleria in New York City on July 17, 2024.
***
WhatCo One-Act Play Festival 2024
Selected plays will be presented this Spring to the public at The Theater at WHATCO
All plays must be completed one-acts running 5-30 minutes in length
Limit of 3 submissions per playwright
Plays in English, Spanish or Portuguese are welcome
Content should be appropriately PG-13
***
Sunday, March 10 · 7 - 8:30pm EDT
TADA! Youth Theater, West 28th Street, New York, NY, USA
15 West 28th Street New York, NY 10001
Within the confines of a small airplane, four girls, each in different years of their college career, get to know one another over the span of the 50 minute flight. Their views on social injustices, race, and politics are all tested through faux-polite (and sometimes outright impolite) conversation with one another. The play tackles everything from school shootings, suicide, and sexuality, to whether or not Prince William is hot. Each of the characters start off as complete strangers and leave the flight knowing more about one another than their closest friends do. No phone numbers or instagrams are exchanged. These girls meet one another, and then continue on their individual journeys. Their backgrounds and “classiness” define how they talk to one another, but at their core, this is a play about 4 girls just hanging out and being there for each other for a fleeting moment in time.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fight-or-flight-an-off-broadway-premiere-of-a-play-by-allison-furlong-tickets-839549343687?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
*** NYCPLAYWRIGHTS ZOOMERS ***
You can sit in on a Zoomers meeting for free - let us know which Monday you want to join us by dropping a line to na...@nycplaywrights.org
Learn about the group here: https://nycp-zoomers.blogspot.com
*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
As a part of our 10th annual season, the Barr Hill Players (BHP) will present a staged reading of new works by emerging playwrights. Selected scripts will be workshopped by our ensemble of acting fellows during the BHP summer intensive in Greensboro, VT, then presented for a developmental staged reading at La MaMa Galleria in New York City on July 17, 2024.
***
WhatCo One-Act Play Festival 2024
Selected plays will be presented this Spring to the public at The Theater at WHATCO
All plays must be completed one-acts running 5-30 minutes in length
Limit of 3 submissions per playwright
Plays in English, Spanish or Portuguese are welcome
Content should be appropriately PG-13
***
The 2024 Black Men Talk Play Festival is aimed at recognizing the voices and stories of Black male playwrights. The project is created by a playwright from Chicago where the festival will be held and selected plays will be produced in August 2024.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** PRESIDENTS DAY ON STAGE ***
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1938 play by Robert Sherwood. It is a study in the life of you-know-who, starting with Lincoln as a young man in his twenties in search of his destiny. He loves and loses Ann Rutlege, marries Mary Todd, overcomes a pile of debt incurred when his general store fails, and establishes himself as a lawyer and a politician. The third act of the play deals with Lincoln's famous campaign against Stephen Douglas for the U.S. Senate in 1858, then his campaign against Douglas again (and others) for the presidency in 1860. The play ends as Lincoln leaves for Washington to be inaugurated.
More...
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Theatre/AbeLincolnInIllinois
***
General George Washington
The career of ambitious General and statesman, President George Washington, is traced amidst the turmoil and conflicts surrounding the nation’s founding. Memorable period music and authentic storytelling punctuates the saga of Washington’s ascent to power and a legacy influential to this day.
More...
https://lifehousetheater.com/2023/06/12/general-george-washington-2/
***
Every audience has the same experience at Abraham Lincoln, and I laugh privately when I think of that experience. The curtain goes up on a highly commonplace little parlour, and a few ordinary people chatting in a highly commonplace manner. They keep on chatting. The audience thinks to itself: "I've been done! What is this interminable small talk?" And it wants to call out a protest: "Hi! You fellows on the stage! Have you forgotten that there is an audience on the other side of the footlights, waiting for something to happen?" (Truly the ordinary people in the parlour do seem to be unaware of the existence of any audience.) But wait, audience! Already the author is winding his chains about you. Though you may not suspect it, you are already bound.... At the end of the first scene the audience, vaguely feeling the spell, wonders what on earth the nature of the spell is. At the end of the play it is perhaps still wondering what precisely the nature of the spell is.... But it fully and rapturously admits the reality of the spell. Indeed after the fall of the curtain, and after many falls of the curtain, the spell persists; the audience somehow cannot leave its seats, and the thought of the worry of the journey home and of last busses and trains is banished. Strange phenomenon! It occurs every night.
Intro to ABRAHAM LINCOLN by John Drinkwater - available on Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11172/11172-h/11172-h.htm
***
Cato, by Joseph Addison, staged through the lens of the 1778 Valley Forge performance for and with George Washington’s troops.
Setting: The play, which premiered in 1713 and was performed at Valley Forge in 1778, unfolds on the last day of Cato the Younger’s life, as Julius Caesar makes his march as dictator across the African continent and the colonial outposts of republican Rome.
More...
https://clarencebrowntheatre.com/cato/
***
To portray Abraham Lincoln in flesh and blood on the stage is to be the somewhat daring attempt of a young American who is at once his own playwright and leading man. Just a week after Lincoln's Birthday will be seen for the first time in Hartford, Conn., a character drama by Benjamin Chapin, which is called "Lincoln," and in which the personality of the great President plays a dominant part.
More...
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/02/04/101765237.html?pageNumber=48
***
Theatre had an odd way of paying Washington back though. There are are surprisingly few stage plays about the “Father of Our Country” and/or the parts of the Revolution he took part in. Just a couple spring to mind: Percy MacKaye’s George Washington (1920), starring Walter Hampden and directed by Robert Edmond Jones; and Maxwell Anderson’s Valley Forge (1935), which was made into a tv movie with Richard Basehart 40 years later...
More...
https://travsd.wordpress.com/2023/02/22/george-washington-on-stage-and-screen/
***
The Spirit of Lincoln, a play/musical written by Illinois native, Ken Bradbury, recounts the real-life stories of people affected by Lincoln’s spirit and ideologies, while exploring the themes of friendship, bravery, racism, and social justice that are still relevant today. Experience first-hand the lasting impact Abraham Lincoln had on his central Illinois community and beyond.
More...
http://springfieldtheatrecentre.com/spirit-of-lincoln/
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