My play, A YEAR OF BLUE JAYS, is part of the BridgePHL fall theater festival.  This piece is presented with four other short pieces on October 22nd at 7 pm.  This year is BridgePHL is doing their productions as virtual. You need to go on their website to register, but the event itself is free.  My play us acted by myself and my husband , Richard.  It tells of a morning with a couple watching the birds  while trying to sort out their life. I hope some of you see it and enjoy it. Christine Emmert dakinichris@yahoo.com 

Khaos Company Theatre is giving a free reading of "The Wedding Dress," Tuesday, September 15, 2020, 7:30 p.m. Eastern, one-night only. It's a quirky comedy about two sisters (one a hoarder, one a recycling guru) and their mother (who has been keeping a huge secret from both of them). This play won a KCT competition and the theatre plans a full production in 2021 in Indianapolis, Indiana. A few minutes before 7:30, click on this URL to be taken to the show: https://fb.me/e/cHQlPTcHP  

FUKT is an oddly uplifting personal tale of traumatic memory, incest, murder & private parts! With zombies, a striptease and song, this immersive, fearless journey to bare all is a healing balm for anyone with a secret.

FUKT was a finalist at Unicorn and a finalist at BAPF and is available for download on NPX. The reading is part of Friday Night Footlights at the Dramatists Guild. Here's the link for reserve a free ticket! 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-online-friday-night-footlights-tickets-117800202577?aff=erelpanelorg

Elana Gartner's "Before Lesbians" is a finalist for the 2020 Dayton's FutureFest. Due to the current circumstances, FutureFest has chosen to do readings of three of the six finalists. "Before Lesbians" will be available from July 31st-August 6th. Elana will be doing a live interview on August 2nd at 2pm EST through the Dayton Playhouse's Facebook live feed. Please stop by and ask questions! Tickets are available at http://wordpress.thedaytonplayhouse.com/tickets/

When Charlotte and Vivian meet, they are about to marry their fiancés who are leaving to fight for President Lincoln. Through letters and visits, Charlotte and Vivian nurture their friendship, sharing books and projects to support the troops and their husbands. In an era where women were not recognized as sexual beings and when words did not exist for women falling in love, Charlotte and Vivian struggle to understand the confusing feelings they are developing for each other while the Civil War rages on.

West of Lenin in Seattle, WA, USA will livestream a FREE reading of

THE GARDEN OF MONSTERS by Mara Lathrop

June 17, 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern. / June 18, 1am GMT

In the final days of WWII, a Jewish GI encounters a dying Holocaust survivor and the last shred of hope in all the world. A hundred years later his great-granddaughter is caught up in a deadly pandemic and hope is the only thing that can save her.

Directed by Greg Paul

Featuring Adam Arkin, Sylvie Mae Baldwin, Kate Kraay, Craig MacArthur, Allison Siko, Jayne Taini and Max Urdell.

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Hi Sisters and Mister Listers! Working in a virtual rehearsal room is both weird and comfortingly familiar. Certainly the technical demands are different -- there's not a music stand or a folding chair in sight. On the other hand, viewing the virtual rehearsal space with my mike and camera turned off while director and actors work moments and talk through transitions is as thrilling to me as if I was sitting  in the corner of any real room.The theatre and the Production Manager are in Seattle. I'm participating from my dining room table in Port Townsend 70 miles from Seattle  as the crow flies. The director lives in Brooklyn but joins us from a log cabin in rural Wisconsin.The actors are in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago and New York. My director Greg and I have assembled a great cast.I am blessed to be working with them. Please join us as we tell a story about what it might take to change the world. 

Hoping for the best,

Mara Lathrop

Radio Play:  African Musk on my forehead...unwrapping my pink shroud by Mahasin D. Shamsid-Deen

Friday - May 29, 2020; 8pm EST

Airing online at AM360.org -a blogtalk radio station. 

Listen through you phone by calling 701-719-4197

For more information go to: https://wovenorbits.wixsite.com/wovenorbits/current-production

The Italian-American Theatre of Chicago will present a reading of The Diagonal Trilogy on April 4th at 7:30 and 5th at 3:00 at the Open Door Theater, 902 S. Ridgeland, Oak Park, IL.  For reservations: info@italianamericantheatreofchicago.com or call 708-848-2559.  Seating is limited.  

Debra Kaufman will read from her new poetry collection, God Shattered, at the Mebane Public Library, 101 1st St., Mebane, NC.  "Kaufman’s poetry is a landscape populated with crows, shadows, and the tall grasses of Midwestern plains, at once a poetry of place, womanhood, memory, and narrative." 

LITTLE ♀ by June Guralnick receives its premiere staged reading at Burning Coal Theatre Company, co-sponsored by Justice Theater Project, on Friday, March 13th, at 7:30 pm.  A divorced mother and her daughters battle the world, and each other, to be free. Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Second Wave feminist movement (1963-1973) and the age-old War of the Sexes, June's audacious new full-length drama is a radical retelling of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women! For tickets and more info: http://www.thejusticetheaterproject.org/little-women