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*** CONGRATULATIONS KATHERINE GLEASON ***

Congratulations to Katherine Gleason who has just won the Christopher Hewitt Award for Drama for her short play THE TOE INCIDENT.
Her piece is in the August issue of A&U Magazine here:
https://aumag.org/2020/08/03/the-toe-incident-drama-by-katherine-gleason/

She wrote us to say: "I have found lots of great opportunities on NYCPlaywrights! One of my short plays just won an award. Wow. I never would have known about it if it wasn’t for NYCPlaywrights! I love your work!”

Thanks to Katherine for her kind words of encouragement - NYCPlaywrights is happy to be helpful. You can learn more about Katherine Gleason’s work at her web site at www.katherinegleason.com and you can follow her on Twitter at @KGleasonWriter


If you have found good opportunities through NYCPlaywrights, let us know at info@nycplaywrights.org - we will share your story and links to your site(s) & work (with your permission of course.)



*** FREE THEATER ONLINE ***

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Tuesday, August 18
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Finish the Fight
A virtual play, celebrating the unsung heroes of suffrage.
They were tireless organizers. Tenacious fighters. And political geniuses. They were Black and Latinx. Indigenous and immigrant. Together, they won women the right to vote and laid the cornerstone for gender equality in the United States. Yet their stories have rarely been told. Until now.

This August, we give voice to these heroes of the suffrage movement. Join us for the premiere of this innovative new performance. Learn why their fight is far from over.

https://timesevents.nytimes.com/finishthefight


*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***

The Robert J. Pickering / J.R. Colbeck Award for Playwriting Excellence
This annual award was established to honor past member and playwright, Bob Pickering, and to provide a vehicle for playwrights to see their works produced. Over 30 plays have been produced over since 1984. In 2020, the award was renamed to also honor longtime BCCT member and Pickering director, J.R. Colbeck. $200 is awarded for first place, $50 for second place and $25 for third place.

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We are currently accepting submissions for the 2021-22 Reva Shiner Comedy Award. The winner will be announced by June 2021. "Full-length” plays should have a complete running time of between 1 hour 15 minutes (75 minutes) to 2 hours 15 minutes (135 minutes)

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The Trans [Plays] of Remembrance Festival at Ohio University is now accepting submissions of 10 minute plays to be performed digitally as part of our Trans Awareness week. The Festival will take place over three nights during Ohio University's Trans Week of Awareness with performances November 16th, 17th and 20th. Playwrights/poets/performers will be notified which day(s) their play(s) will be performed.


*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***



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THE POST OFFICE

In the spring of 1913, Yeats directed the Irish Players to perform Tagore’s play The Post Office, then unpublished, at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, and then again in London in July 1913. On November 14, 1913, Tagore was informed that he had won the Prize via telegram at home in Bengal, then on December 10, 1913, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first non-European to do so.

More...
https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/postcolonialstudies/2020/02/16/yeats-w-b-india-and-rabindranath-tagore/

Script:
https://archive.org/details/postoffice00yeatgoog/page/n6/mode/2up

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THE POSTMAN AND THE POET

Isla Negra, a fishing village on the Chilean coast, 1970-73. Mario, inarticulate and wildly romantic, gets a job as postman to the poet Pablo Neruda. Learning from Neruda, Mario woos the beautiful Beatriz in a way that is unusual to her: in words. The pair fall in love, and after being caught in a delicate situation are forced by Beatriz's mother, Rosa, to marry. She puts the couple to work in her taverna.

More...
http://www.thepostmanandthepoet.com/the%20story.htm

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LOVE LETTERS

New York City is falling head over heels for A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters, the story of a 50-year correspondence between Melissa Gardner and her childhood-friend-turned-love-interest, Andrew Makepeace Ladd III. Thanks to its simple staging, Gurney’s play, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, has been performed in theater spaces all over the world, from the New York Public Library to Broadway to Carnegie Hall and back again. Put away your iPhone (at least for a minute!) to find out how a touching romance through old-fashioned pen and paper will officially blossom on Broadway beginning September 17, 2014.

More...
https://www.broadway.com/buzz/177509/signed-sealed-delivered-the-story-of-ar-gurneys-love-letters-from-the-library-to-the-great-white-way/

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OLD LOVE LETTERS: A COMEDY IN ONE ACT

Old Love Letters is short one act comedy by Bronson Howard from 1878.  In this cute relic, the charm of youthful courtship amidst the strain of Victorian societal mores is considered with the passage of time.

Mrs. Florence Brownlee is rereading old love letters “like faded rose leaves in a book” before casually tossing them into a fire.  She has been recently widowed at age 32.  A former suitor, Edward Warburton’s wife died four years ago and he is now forty years old.  “Even the warm skies of southern Italy failed to restore her.”  He is reading old love letters from Florence which were never destroyed despite his marriage to another.  “It isn’t wicked for me to keep them now.”

More...
https://www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com/seclusion-smorgasbord-viii/


Script:
https://archive.org/details/oldlovelettersa00howagoog/page/n10/mode/2up

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A LETTER TO HARVEY MILK

It's 1986 and Harry has decided to take Barbara's class after seeing a sign about it at the JCC. He insists that he doesn't have much to write about, but a moving letter he composes to Milk, a former customer and friend, proves otherwise.

More...
https://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/reviews/a-letter-to-harvey-milk-is-a-musical-with-a-secret_84323.html


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DEAR ELIZABETH

“I seem to spend my life missing you,” Robert Lowell wrote to Elizabeth Bishop, many years after the long and intimate friendship between these two great American poets began. In another letter he sadly observed, “We seem attached to each other by some stiff piece of wire, so that each time one moves, the other moves in another direction.”

The geographical distance between them, breached only rarely during their sometimes tumultuous lives, was a deeply felt burden to both — if perhaps occasionally a blessing, too. But it left behind a great literary treasure: more than 400 letters that they exchanged as their careers and lives blossomed, faltered, foundered, almost fell apart, then blossomed anew. The playwright Sarah Ruhl has distilled from their voluminous correspondence a concise selection to create “Dear Elizabeth,” an epistolary play that is having its premiere at the Yale Repertory Theater here.

More...
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/theater/reviews/dear-elizabeth-a-sarah-ruhl-play.html


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DEAR LIAR

Just how much will be lost when the art of writing letters is completely vanquished by more transitory forms of communication — like, say, the exchange of idiotic e-mail jokes — is tenderly conveyed in “Dear Liar,” Jerome Kilty’s 1958 play adapted from the correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell. In a diverting and often poignant new revival at the Irish Repertory Theater, Marian Seldes and Donal Donnelly ably spar and flirt in the guise of these towering theatrical figures, bringing to life an immortally lively relationship and in the process giving a commanding view onto a vanished era.

More...
https://variety.com/1999/legit/reviews/dear-liar-1200458320/
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