pandemic.showportal.netPandemic Play Reading Series – Staged Readings during the COVID19 Quarantine

2594 Lynn Ogden Lane Pandemic Play Reading Series News and Reflections Scheduled Readings Pandemic Play Reading Series The Gronhölm Method readingtime : 2021-06-19 19:30:00 By Jordi Galceran Translation by Anne García-Romero and Mark St. Germain Four candidates for a corporate job explore the lengths they will go to in order to be the one left standing. Cast: Frank–Tom BigongiariRick–Jeff SiudaMelanie–Donnell AdlerCarl–James Lockhart Click for Zoom link and more information. The Crucible readingtime : 2021-05-15 19:30:00 by Arthur Miller Tonight, we are reading Arthur Miller’s landmark play, a scathing commentary on the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The Crucible is an allegory of McCarthy’s pursuit of Communists in the 1950s, and also reflects on fanaticism in our own time. Cast: John Proctor –James Lockhart Abigail Williams– Misty Lynn Macey Mary Warren– Karen Dieruf ... Click for Zoom link and more information. DARK BLUE MONDAZE CAST FAMILY REUNION readingtime : 2021-05-12 19:00:00 DARK BLUE MONDAZE, the independent theatrical production organization provides a platform for elevating and amplifying marginalized voices and underserved members of the community, whether people of color, the LBGTQ+ community, veterans, and individuals with disabilities. DARK BLUE MONDAZE has provided more performing opportunities for BIPOC Actors, Writers, Poets & Musicians in Western New York than ... Click for Zoom link and more information. Heroes of the Fourth Turning readingtime : 2021-05-01 19:30:00 By Will Arbery On a late summer night in 2017 in Wyoming, four young conservatives come back to celebrate their mentor Gina, who is now the president of the college they attended. As the night wears on, their discussions on their pasts, theology and modern politics lead to a chaotic catharsis on where they see the ... Click for Zoom link and more information. The Long Christmas Dinner readingtime : 2021-04-17 19:30:00 by Thornton Wilder The Long Christmas Dinner–nine decades long–showcases the lives of several generations of the Bayard family, and some of their Christmas dinners. Wilder breaks the boundaries of time as we measure it, and invites us to partake of ‘one long, happy Christmas dinner’-past, present and future. As generations appear, have children, wither and depart, ... Click for Zoom link and more information. Two Pages, One Book readingtime : 2021-04-10 19:30:00 by Whitley Body For Tiffany, the perfect life consists of the perfect education, the perfect friends, the perfect career, and the perfect love. But what happens when the lights fade out, the music dies, and the curtain closes? Real life…which is never perfect. Cast: Tiffany–Jaimi Miller Bianca–Misty Macey Devon–Kaleab Wiggins Dr. Jenny Hare–Elizabeth Hunter Stan–Douglas Curry Margaret–Kesha Sharee Click for Zoom link and more information. Selections from–The Don and 40 More Plays-on-a-Page readingtime : 2021-04-03 19:30:00 by William Heyen Featuring:Madeline Wall from Minneapolis, MN &Alexander Pennise from New York City Directed by Donald Brian Bartalohummingbird theatre co. The collection of 41 Plays-On-A-Page convey slices of sometimes fantastical life. Sometimes biting social commentary, sometimes whimsical asides. These short dramas and comedies leave the audience guessing about their own lives and the world around them. William Heyen, ... Click for Zoom link and more information. Silent Sky readingtime : 2021-03-26 19:30:00 by Lauren Gunderson In the annals of astronomy, Henrietta Leavitt is a pioneer. She worked with a group of women computers” inside the Harvard Observatory at the turn of the 20th century. Along the way of making significant discoveries involving the stars along with her fellow workers, Henrietta must also come to terms with love, society ... Click for Zoom link and more information. Marisol readingtime : 2021-03-13 19:30:00 by José Rivera Marisol Perez is having a rough time. Despite her high-paying job as a copy editor, she still lives in the tough neighborhood she grew up in. She also survives being assaulted with a golf club, and her guardian angel is leaving her to go to war against God. And New York is about ... Click for Zoom link and more information. Les Belles-Soeurs readingtime : 2021-03-06 19:30:00 by Michel Tremblay Germaine Lauzon wins 1 million trading stamps and hosts a party of her sisters and neighbors to paste the stamps into books. The women, who live in Montreal, show their true colors as they confront this monumental task. Canadian playwright Michel Tremblay’s play from 1968 was revolutionary in its depiction of characters who speak ... Click for Zoom link and more information. Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1st performance) readingtime : 2021-02-28 15:00:00 by Eugene O’Neill Widely considered one of the best plays of the 20th century, this semi-autobiographical play explores the trials and tribulations of the Tyrone family. With Alana Ghent, Bob McDonald, Doug Durlacher, Michele Cuomo and Stephen Stout. Click for Zoom link and more information. Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2nd performance) readingtime : 2021-02-28 15:00:00 by Eugene O’Neill Widely considered one of the best plays of the 20th century, this semi-autobiographical play explores the trials and tribulations of the Tyrone family. With Alana Ghent, Bob McDonald, Doug Durlacher, Michele Cuomo and Stephen Stout. Click for Zoom link and more information. What the Constitution Means to Me readingtime : 2021-02-27 19:30:00 by Heidi Schreck Before becoming a successful actor and writer, Heidi Schreck traveled the country as a young girl debating the Constitution. Now she explores the document and the impact it has made on her life, and the lives of women more than 230 years after its creation. The Pandemic Play Reading Series presents a reading of ... Click for Zoom link and more information. Fools readingtime : 2021-02-20 19:00:00 by Neil Simon Leon Tolchinsky is ecstatic. He’s landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet. When he arrives he finds people sweeping dust from the stoops back into their houses and people milking upside down to get more cream. The town has been cursed with Chronic Stupidity for 200 years and Leon’s job ... Click for Zoom link and more information. American Moor readingtime : 2021-02-13 19:30:00 By Keith Hamilton Cobb An experienced Black actor, Keith, attends an audition for a new production of Othello.” He learns the young director of the show is white, who has his own ideas on how the Venetian Moor should be presented. What follows is a personal journey that shows – according to the published script – ... Click for Zoom link and more information. Hospice readingtime : 2021-02-06 19:30:00 by Pearl Cleage In Pearl Cleage’s 1983 one-act play, estranged mother and daughter, Alice and Jenny Anderson, confront their pasts when they both unwittingly return to live in the same family home. Cast: Alice–Kesha ShareeJenny–Artemis Scott Click for Zoom link and more information. No Exit readingtime : 2021-01-30 19:30:00 by Jean-Paul Sartre Sartre’s existential masterpiece imagines three people in hell, damned to be in the same room for eternity. Cast: Joseph Garcin–R. Emmett Michie Estelle Rigault–Shawnda Urie Inèz Serrano–Alana Ghent Lora Nava–Valet Click for Zoom link and more information. Watch on the Rhine readingtime : 2021-01-23 19:30:00 by Lillian Hellman This New York Drama Critics Circle Award-winning play premiered on Broadway in April 1941, eight months before the U.S. entry into World War II. Hoping to find peace, Kurt Mueller, a German citizen and anti-fascist, his American wife, Sara, and their children arrive at Sara’s childhood home in Washington, D.C. Even in this environment ... Click for Zoom link and more information. Doubt, a parable readingtime : 2021-01-09 19:30:00 by John Patrick Shanley. The Pandemic Play Reading Series presents a reading of this 2004 Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play. The play, which takes place at a Catholic...