With generous funding from the Smart Foundation, and in a partnership with the Madison Arts and Culture Alliance, MCAC is presenting a play development program showcasing New Jersey women playwrights. Plays are presented in a concert reading format and feature professional actors. The event includes a post-reading conversation with the author.
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Thanks to a generous grant from the Smart Foundation, the Madison Arts and Culture Alliance, in partnership with MCAC, will present concert readings of eight new works by women playwrights from New Jersey. Writers and plays will be selected shortly.
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Get Tickets The stories of our mothers are overshadowed by our fathers, in a man’s world, where language is not the mother-tongue but rather, the father-tongue. Grace has always lived in the shadow of her father. On her final day of life, Grace conjures up her mother, Jeanette, and her child-self, young Grace, and the
Get Tickets Use the Code NJWPP1 to receive free admission. Lastlines, a professional theater in Des Moines IA, is in production for the World Premiere of One Bitter Winter by celebrated playwright and Lastlines regular Michaela Bursar, and their sights are set on a move Off-Broadway. Starring a well-known television actor, a young New York
GET TICKETS Curccio’s has been serving Italian specialties at this working-class Bergen County neighborhood corner bar for 60 years, the last 20 headed up by Jim, the son of the original owner. But the town has become a destination for New York City transplants looking for affordable homes and good schools. Everything is changing to
Lastlines, a professional theater in Des Moines IA, is in production for the World Premiere of One Bitter Winter by celebrated playwright and Lastlines regular Michaela Bursar, and their sights are set on a move Off-Broadway . Starring a well-known television actor, a young New York stage actress, members of the local Des Moines
This reading has been postponed. Please check back for a rescheduled date. On the first night of Rosh Hashanah, Beatrice Larson, a 70-year-old New Yorker and Rita Shah, a 23-year-old actress, spend their first evening together in Beatrice’s Upper East Side apartment musing race, religion, relationships, loss, and solitude. Rita dreams of performing on stage, a
SMOKE SCREEN: A SICILIAN/AMERICAN OPERA by Mary Ann Castronovo Fusco is set in northern New Jersey and Sicily in 1993. It is about an immigrant family that reunites to confront a health crisis and discovers there can be life after death. Having given up on his American dream 20 years earlier, Nino Di Martino, a
The stories of our mothers are overshadowed by our fathers, in a man’s world, where language is not the mother-tongue but rather, the father-tongue. Grace has always lived in the shadow of her father. On her final day of life, Grace conjures up her mother, Jeanette, and her child-self, young Grace, and the three women
THE DIAGONAL TRILOGY by Vita Patrick Morales is the story of Carly, a man who grew up under unusual circumstances in the shadow of the Pulaski Skyway in the Ironbound District of Newark, New Jersey. The troubles of his childhood go with him his entire life through war and injury as he searches endlessly