Member Productions

Believers, a full-length comedy by Patricia Milton, will receive a Playwrights Center of San Francisco table reading this Thursday.

Love. Drugs. Unexpected side effects.

Is it really better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? Or is it better to (pharmaceutically) remove the possibility of heartbreak altogether? Rockwell Wise is set to develop a love vaccine when his ex-lover Grace is hired to lead his team. What could go wrong? This full-length romantic comedy is set in a dystopian future, and inspired by the Grimm's fairy tale The Frog Prince.

With Jeffrey Hoffman, Heidi Wolff, Jean Butterfield, Laylah Muran de Assereto, and Rick Paxson.

Thursday, April 29, 7:30 p.m.
Ray of Light Theatre Studio
965 Mission Street, Room 350

$5-10 sliding scale, members free

Four Women In Search Of A Character by Diane Grant had a staged reading at the Blank Theatre in Hollywood, CA on April 19, 2010 at 8pm.

A staged reading of Four Women In Search Of A Character, by Diane Grant will be presented by The Red Brick Road Company at the Avery Schrieber Theatre, 11050 Magnolia Blvd. North Hollywood, CA 91601, on Friday, April 30th at 7:30 pm.

A reading of THREE EXTINCTIONS by Carolyn Kras

Wednesday, April 21 @ 7:30 P.M.

Centenary Stage Company's Women Playwrights Series, Mastodon Project

Ticket price: suggested donation at the door

Call 908-979-0900 to reserve tickets

400 Jefferson Street, Hackettstown, NJ 07840 

 

"Though They May Be Parted," a short play by ICWP member Patricia Milton, premieres as part of Woman's Will's Playfest 2.0 at 8 pm Saturday, April 24 at the Clay Buriel Theatre in San Francisco, CA.

The evening of short plays is a fundraiser for this all-woman theatre group. "Though They May Be Parted" is inspired by the Beatles song, "Let It Be," and concerns three sisters at a funeral home making a decision about their mother's burial service.

Details and tickets here.

Patricia Milton's short play, "Middle of the Road," about a funny/serious romantic encounter that takes place on the shoulder of 880, is competing in the first round of PianoFight's Shortlived 3.0 ten-minute-play competition.

Of eight plays, four will move on to the next round, and four will be
eliminated, based on audience voting. The author of the ultimate winning play gets a commission!

If you attend, use the discount code "pat" to save 25%.

Dates: April 9 & 10, 2010, 8 pm at the Off-Market Theatre, 965 Mission near 5th. BART & MUNI nearby (5th and Market) and parking @ 5th and Mission Streets.

Tickets here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/103412

In a corporate law firm manifested as a wacky gym, law clerks dressed in ties and running shorts climb the corporate ladder - literally - and throw punches, step out of bounds, and commit personal fouls.  Janet must decide whether to blow the whistle on the runaway fraud or kill her conscience (a talking copy machine) in order to stay in the game.  Winner of the K.C.A.C.T.F. Region II One Act Play Award.

Directed by Joshua William Gelb as part of Carnegie Mellon's PLAYGROUND: Festival of Independent Student Work.

The performance is on SWAN Day, 3/27/10, at 10:50 P.M. in Carnegie Mellon's Purnell Center for the Arts, Wells Studio.  Tickets are FREE and are available at the main box office starting at 5:30 P.M.

Hearts, Flowers...And Blood.

Playwright Anne Hamilton will read the first play AND HERE YOU ARE from THE LOVE PLAY at No Passport's Hibernating Rattlesnakes Reading Series in New York City at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, 236 E. 3rd Street (Between Avenues B and C). She will read one part each month. $5 suggested admission.

Follow artist STACY LEE MADISON and her dead teenage lover JONATHAN through Paradise, Earth, Limbo and the Womb. In that order.

SELDOM IS HEARD, a ten minute play
by Mary Steelsmith
Saturday March 6
2:00 p.m.
Donald Bruce Kaufman - Brentwood Branch Library
11820 San Vicente Boulevard
Los Angeles, 90049
http://www.lapl.org/branches/Branch.php?bID=16

ADMISSION IS FREE!!!

SELDOM IS HEARD

CA...ST OF CHARACTERS
IVAN- 20's - 30's
A strapping, young man, dressed in a faded buttoned up work shirt and jeans, wearing a kerchief that covers his hair. He totters unsteadily. We hope he won't tip over. Whatever happened to make him this way, there are no outward scars.

HANNAH - 20's -30's
Hannah is a plain looking woman, perhaps large-sized. She wears a buttoned up shirt, covering a tank top beneath it, and jeans. Hannah carries herself with a familiar caregiver's energy, tired but in a groove of well-practiced cheerfulness.

MARILYN - 30's - 40's
With one glance, you can tell she's one of those women who made sure her home was spotless before she left it this morning.
Marilyn's hair is perfect and she sports a pink feminine suit with matching purse,fit for the many cosmetics it must contain. You just know her car is pink.

SETTING:
Two chairs signifying a front porch of a modest house in the suburbs.

SYNOPSIS: Hannah has quite a bit on her plate nowadays. Her husband, Ivan, has returned from his tour of duty in Afghanistan with an I.E.D.- caused brain injury. The term "supporting our troops" seems to have a different meaning now that he's home. Ivan's noisy and unpredictable behavior on his own front porch irks Marilyn, president of the local Neighborhood Restoration Association (NRA), who insists Ivan be put in a "special place," in order to keep up the local morale. Recognizing the war on terror has to also be fought on the home front, Hannah and Ivan choose to reenter mainstream society and credit Marilyn for her bright idea.

Patricia Milton's short play, "Meltdown" will be featured in SHEHEREZADE X, an evening of short plays inspired by events of 2009. Performances begin at 8 p.m. March 19-27 at the Phoenix Theatre in San Francisco, 414 Mason Street, 6th Floor. "Meltdown" was inspired by the worldwide economic downturn and the discovery of a supernova by a 14-year-old citizen astronomer in upstate New York.

The Women of the Stockyards features readings of 7 plays about women who worked in the Chicago Stockyards on 4 dates. On March 5, 6, and 26, at 7 pm, readings will be at Cafe Ballou, 939 N. Western, Chicago, Illinois, and on March 28 at 7, at Royal George Gallery in Chicago. A donation of $5 is suggested.

Considered the 8th Wonder of the World in the late 19th century, the Chicago Stockyards is a place where anything can happen – so, of course, in Nancy's play, Rosie wants to defy her mother’s plans for her and join in the excitement.