The audience is an integral part of the new play development process, as two area stage companies — Palm Beach Dramaworks and Florida Atlantic University Theatre Lab — can attest. Both have festivals of new work that consist of readings and talkbacks of evolving scripts, some of which will graduate to be fully produced in subsequent seasons. Coming up soon is Dramaworks’ … [Read more...]
More from Louisville: Six Humana Festival plays, reviewed
As it has for 41 years, Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival of New American Plays premiered a handful of stage works this past month, several of which are destined for subsequent productions across the country. Here is my subjective take on the plays I saw in one crowded repertory weekend: Recent Alien Abductions, by Jorge Ignacio Cortinas – The only drama in a … [Read more...]