News

Five Plays by Lucy Thurber to Open Simultaneously in New York

null

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is putting on a festival dedicated to the playwright Lucy Thurber this month. 

Thurber’s series of 5 plays, The Hill Town Plays, will be staged simultaneously at the Rattlestick, New Ohio, Axis and the Cherry Lane in the West Village. The plays — Killers & Other Family, Where We’re Born, Stay, Scarcity and Ashville — chronicle a Massachusetts girl’s life from being teen to an adulthood. 

Thurber commented on the series: 

It’s important that each play stands alone. It was impossible to get all the aspects of the world I was trying to write about into one play. Now you can
get a fuller version of this town and this girl and what it means to come from a culture of poverty.

The links between the plays are not specific but thematic. The girl in each play is the same girl but the names and relationships change with the different plays.  

Actress Karen Allen will be making her off-Broadway directing debut with Ashville.

All five plays will share the opening night on September 5th.  Ticket info here.


Women and Hollywood Transition

Dear friends- A little over 15 years ago I had a crazy idea: to try and start a conversation asking where the women were in front of the camera and behind the scenes in Hollywood. I called my blog...

Gina Rodriguez Developing Series Adaptation of “Princess of South Beach” Podcast for Netflix

Gina Rodriguez is celebrating the success of her new ABC comedy “Not Dead Yet” by developing a series adaptation of a popular podcast for Netflix. Deadline reports that the streamer has...

Sophie Lane Curtis Feature Debut “On Our Way” Acquired by Gravitas Ventures

Sophie Lane Curtis’ feature debut has secured distribution. Deadline reports that Gravitas Ventures landed worldwide rights to “On Our Way” with plans to release the award-winning...

Posts Search

Publishing Dates
Start date
- select start date -
End date
- select end date -
Category
News
Films
Interviews
Features
Trailers
Festivals
Television
RESET