Member Productions

A reading of HOW TO STOP HATING YOUR LIFE by Patricia Milton, presented by the Playwrights Center of San Francisco.

7:30 p.m.
Shelton Theater (downstairs), 533 Sutter (btw. Powell and Mason),
San Francisco, CA
$5-10 suggested donation/your discretion/members free

America's Self-Help Expert, MJ Powers, has a three-step plan to create the perfect life. She's even written the book on relationship happiness. So why is her own relationship teetering on the brink? Gently spoofing the fringes of America's self-help movement, How to Stop Hating Your Life examines our very human capacity to delude, pretend, and evade ... yet eventually find our way to real love.

Patricia Milton's plays include Bamboozled (2018 Outstanding Production and Ensemble, TBA Awards), Hearts of Palm, Enemies: Foreign and Domestic (2015 Outstanding World Premiere Play, TBA Awards) and Reduction in Force, all for Central Works Theatre. Believers was produced in San Francisco, Monterey, CA, and in Istanbul, Turkey; and Without Mercy premiered at Off Broadway West Theatre Company. 3Girls Theatre premiered Moments of Truth, her musical co-written with Caroline Altman. Patricia is co-author with Andrew Black of It's Murder, Mary! (New Conservatory Theatre Center), and other plays. She is resident playwright at Central Works, and serves as the Northern California Rep for the Dramatists Guild.

Patricia Milton's website

A premiere solo show at the Triad Theater. Passageways is an original song cycle with live music, and artwork projections, all created by the performer. Music, humor and art, interwoven with autobiographical narrative, as the creativity of the artist becomes an unexpected passageway through profound crisis. On passageways, there's no way in, no way out, only through. So why not laugh, dance and paint our way towards the light? Musical Direction and Arrangements by Bob Goldstone, and Direction by Shellen Lubin. 

PASSAGEWAYS: Songs of Connections, Abnormal and Sublime will perform at The Triad (158 West 72nd Street) with performances on Saturday March 16th at 7pm, and Sunday March 31st at 3pm. Tickets are $15 plus a two-drink minimum and can be purchased online at www.TriadNYC.com, and http://www.triadnyc.com/event/586e71f0397f954f12a81f419a24e1f7

ICWP members and parent playwrights Elana Gartner and Victoria Z. Daly will present their work alongside parent playwright Charlie Schulman. Pen Parentis is an organization that supports writers that are parents. We will be reading excerpts from our work and answering questions about the balancing act of parenting and playwriting. 

The Hideout at Killarney Rose (80 Beaver Street), 2nd Floor

7pm-9:30pm

RSVP at http://www.penparentis.org/calendar/

On March 25 at Theatre for the New City, Melba LaRose will be presented with the Acker Award for her numerous contributions to NYC avant-garde theatre as a playwright, director, and actress.  She is Artistic & Executive Director of the nonprofit NY Artists Unlimited, known for its dedication to works that evoke dignity of the individual and sanctity of the human spirit.  For 25+ years, the company has reached audiences throughout NYC and the Northeast with plays that are multicultural, multidisciplinary, and nontraditionally cast in all ways.  Melba also created the International CringeFest/ Bad Plays Festival and Downeast Arts Center in the East Village.  She debuted in NY avant-garde theatre with Warhol luminaries Jackie Curtis and Candy Darling, as the star of Curtis's "Glamour, Glory & Gold, the Life & Legend of Nola Noonan, Goddess & Star."  She toured internationally with the NY Street Theatre Caravan and was a member of Lonny Chapman's Group Repertory Theatre, LA.  Melba appears in 4 editions of Who's Who, has won numerous grants and awards, and is a member of the League of Professional Theatre Women, International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts (ietm), International Centre for Women Playwrights, Dramatists Guild, AEA, SAG-AFTRA.  The ACKER AWARDS were created by Alan Kaufman in San Francisco and Clayton Patterson in New York.  Join Patterson and friends as they pay tribute to members of the avant-garde arts community who have made outstanding contributions in their discipline in defiance of convention, and to those who have served their fellow writers and artists in outstanding ways.  At the free event, doors open at 6 and the ceremony, hosted by Phoebe Legere, begins at 7 pm.  No reservations, just show up!

FYI: On March 17 my new play (with music) is going to be part of a New Works Series (as a staged reading) in NYC! Should be fun, funny and amazing! Check this one out if you have interest. Would love to meet you!

Here are the specifics:
"More than just a staged reading" this new play (with music) will be presented as part of Emerging Artists Theatre’s New Play Series

SUNDAY, MARCH 17 AT 2:00PM

TADA! Theater, 15 West 28th St, 2nd floor (between Broadway and 5th)

$10 tickets at the door or 888-744-2797
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4075628

Set in a dystopian "near future", this fun and funny romp explores if “old growth” historical values…once denied, disavowed and electronically erased from the culture… can be protected and preserved as a resource for all future generations.

There will be a talk-back afterwards, I'll welcome all of your wonderful (and also "not so wonderful") feedback!

The Blank Theatre’s Living Room Series presents a staged reading of Diane Baia Hale’s full-length drama The Rake of His Heart directed by Andrew Lynford. The performance will take place at 8:00 p.m., Monday, February 18, at The Blank’s 2^nd Stage Theatre, 6500 Santa Monica Blvd, Hollywood, CA. $15 suggested donation.

The Rake of His Heart was inspired by the true story of the unlikeliest spy of WWII: April in Paris and love is in the air, but so is the sound of Nazi jackboots. Posing as the female chanteuse L’Hirondelle by night, working with American Oss officer Virginia Hall by day, Denis Rake—a homosexual British actor lives dangerously enough. But when Max Halder, a gay German colonel, falls for him the stakes soar even higher.

SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA WILL PRESENT SHE DANCED WITH A RED FISH FEB. 19-22, 2019 IN THE BONNIE VORDEN THEATRE. 

“She Danced with a Red Fish,” the winner of the 2018 Inkslinger Playwriting Competition, written by Carolyn Nur Wistrand, will be performed on Feb. 19-22, 2019

The competition called for an original, unpublished, full-length play for the university. Anne-Liese Fox, third time guest director for the theatre department, explained the process of entering the competition down to winning and performing it. “Playwrights from all over the country submit their original plays, and the SLU theatre department offers a full production of this new play,” said Fox. “The contest promotes and encourages new works by playwrights. Achieving this gives Wistrand the opportunity to present her play ‘She Danced with a Red Fish,’ to a 445-seat theatre on this coming Feb.19-22.” According to Fox, Wistrand’s method of storytelling will give a fresh perspective on the most famous Creole woman of New Orleans, Marie Laveau.

http://lionsroarnews.com/19249/arts-entertainment/a-look-into-the-inkslinger-production/

February 15 and 16, February 22 and 23, 2019 @7:30 pm

February 17 and February 24, 2019 @ 3:00 pm
Cook Theatre, Dillard University

New Orleans, LA  – The Dillard Theatre Program at Dillard University will continue  its 83^rd Historic Season with the Louisiana Premiere of a new play on the indefatigable 19^th century female journalist, Miss Ida B. Wells, Ida B. ‘N The Lynching Tree written by Carolyn Nur Wistrand. Directed by Cherelle Palmer, the production runs on the Main Stage in Cook Auditorium, Dillard University February 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, and 24, 2019. Tickets are on sale now.

About the play… Ida B. ‘N The Lynching Tree tells the true story of  how Ida B. Wells, born into slavery in 1862, championed freedom of the press to spotlight the atrocities of lynching in the Deep South. Constructed in four historical pageants, the play highlights the courageous, fearless, and militant spirit of the young Ida B. Wells as a schoolteacher and editor of The Free Press in Memphis, Tennessee. The Memphis lynching’s of Tommie Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry Stewart in 1892 become the catalyst for her lifelong crusade against lynching and inequities, brought about by Jim Crow laws in the Deep South.

Rated PG 13 for content and language.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

• ·         Friday,     February  15, 2019 @ 7:30 p.m.
• ·         Saturday, February  16, 2019 @ 7:30 p.m.
• ·         Sunday,   February  17, 2019 @ 3:00 p.m.
• ·         Friday,     February  22, 2019 @ 7:30 p.m.
• ·         Saturday, February  23, 2019 @ 7:30 p.m.
• ·         Sunday,   February  24, 2019 @ 3:00 p.m.

For more information please call 504-208-0547

A choropoem of poetry from real people enslaved in America in the 18th centurey, Harlem renaissance poets and the work of Mahasin D. Shamsid-Deen interwoven to tell the 400 year history of African peoples enslaved in the Americas.  Told against the backdrop of national African American artwork, true recorded songs of ex-slaves, live drumming and song the story of humanity, capture, pain, resistance and re-emergence is told through poetry and movement.  Saturday, February 15, 2019 at Richmond Public Library 101 E. Franklin St., Richmond, VA.  Performance will be streamed live and shown in 5 minute shorts on youtube channel.