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*** FREE THEATER IN NYC ***
Theater [Untitled] Reading Series
Best Friends
By: Lilly Camp
Directed By: Alex Keegan
June 25, 2021 -8pm
Total loner Elle Summers only has room in her life for her graduation plan– getting into Harvard– until acquaintance Matt Durand asks her to take care of his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend, Haley Moore. Haley are quickly bonded, with their own hashtags, school-wide rumors about their relationship, even plans to move to New York together after high school. A coming of age story, Best Friend tracks three teenagers over their senior year of high school as they struggle to define themselves and their relationships to each other, and shows how coming out in the Internet era has only made things more complicated.
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Well Intentioned White People
By: Imani Vaughn-Jones
September 2021
Upon moving to Atlanta, Nia, a Black aspiring writer, must find a way to navigate the unexpected racial landmines of her white in-laws, her career, and society at large while trying to keep her interracial marriage and herself intact. It’s after a racist encounter with an industry professional that her marriage faces the ultimate test, and Nia is forced to choose between her relationship and herself.
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Unfinishedness
By: James Powers
Directed By: Hannah Stephens
November 2021
Unfinishedness is a one-act musical comedy tackling the issues that many young adults find themselves in today. When life is suddenly halted and you are left wondering, “What do I do now?” In this world, we are introduced to Dude, a young person trying to become a writer. While he is trying to finish his song, many of the unfinished ideas, moments, and relationships from his life, in the form of three other actors, come to him and demand that he finish their part of the story first.
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https://www.theatreuntitled.com/upcoming-projects.html
*** FREE WRITING EVENT JUNE 21: WRITE AWAY ***
It's a FREE online show co-produced by NYC-based Freestyle Repertory Theatre! It's perfect for writers and non-writers alike! Though it's free, advanced registration is required. Our intrepid playwrights have 45 minutes to write a brand-new play, entirely based on audience suggestions.
https://www.nycplaywrights.org/2021/06/free-writing-event-june-21.html
*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
The American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) is accepting submissions of new plays and musicals for the AMDA Plus Staged Readings happening in New York City August-September 2021. Similar to a 29-hour reading format, this two-week program will function as a professional opportunity for writers to workshop new material as well as an educational opportunity for students to experience the development process. Over the course of the readings, writers will be encouraged to create new scenes and songs as they explore their piece in collaboration with the student performers, a professional director, and a professional music director.
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The Nancy Dean award for Lesbian Playwrights is to honor a woman who was at the forefront of Lesbian, queer, gay, genderqueer, gender-nonconforming, trans, intersex and people of color movements. We honor her focus and writing on Lesbian relationships before the time of the Stonewall rebellion.
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Founded by playwright Darrel Alejandro Holnes, the Greater Good Commission offers $500 mini grants to Latinx playwrights to write short plays, innovative in form, that reflect the times. The commission’s second round will focus on LGBTQIA+ Latinx- identifying playwrights. Submissions are open until 11:59 PM on July 4th, 2021.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** JUNETEENTH NATIONAL HOLIDAY ***
President Joe Biden said that signing legislation into law on Thursday establishing June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day -- a US federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States -- will go down as "one of the greatest honors" of his presidency...
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union Major General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in Galveston, Texas, in accordance with President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. Only a handful of states currently observe Juneteenth as a paid holiday.
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/17/politics/biden-juneteenth-bill-signing/index.html
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Broadway Celebrates Juneteenth
The Broadway League’s Black to Broadway Initiative will present Broadway Celebrates Juneteenth, a free outdoor event centered around Black joy and unity that will feature Black Broadway performers in a 90-minute concert. This inaugural event, which is sponsored by MAC Cosmetics and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS with the support of the Times Square Alliance, will take place in Times Square (Broadway between 43rd & 44th Streets) on Saturday, June 19, 2021 from noon – 1:30 PM (rain or shine).
The program is free and open to all to join in this celebration, including those who identify as Black, their allies, and anyone who feel a connection to this holiday. Broadway Celebrates Juneteenth will feature cast members from such shows as Girl from the North Country, The Lion King, Moulin Rouge, The Phantom of the Opera, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Thoughts of a Colored Man, with special appearances by Lillias White, Ben Vereen, and more to be announced, in a concert of song and dance with live music provided by The Music Performance Trust Fund.
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https://www.broadwayleague.com/programs/black-to-broadway/
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Ailey Celebrates Juneteenth is an uplifting program that features performance highlights from Alvin Ailey’s Cry and Revelations, as well as Rennie Harris’ Lazarus. It also features Ailey Artistic Director Robert Battle’s latest BattleTalk with Opal Lee, Samuel Collins, and Reginald Adams discussing the historical significance of Juneteenth and why Americans of all races should celebrate it as a national holiday.
The Ailey Juneteenth Celebration will be available to watch on the Ailey website and YouTube through Tues, June 22 at 7:00pm EDT.
Ailey Celebrates Juneteenth will also be available to watch on-demand until Tues, June 23 at 7:00pm EDT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRIA5rTkLDQ
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The Old Globe, in collaboration with the George L. Stevens Senior Center, will also present a fifth annual Juneteenth Celebration performance presentation as part of the Center’s annual Juneteenth festival event. Audiences are invited to join the celebration on Saturday, June 19 from 12:00 noon to 1:15 p.m. in the Globe’s outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre. This year’s event will feature a cabaret presentation of artists, including the San Diego Black Artist Collective, all sharing performance pieces inspired by the annual holiday. In addition, an invitation-only Juneteenth event, part of the coLAB series, and managed by the Senior Center, will take place on their campus the day prior featuring a similar lineup. Juneteenth—also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day—is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States.
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https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/20-21-season/juneteenth-celebration
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Growing up in 1960s Fort Worth, segregation and racial tension were a part of playwright Eugene Lee’s daily life. But one of the bright spots during often turbulent times was the yearly Juneteenth celebration that brought his whole South Side neighborhood together.
In his play, Ode to Juneteenth, which debuted at the Witte Museum on Tuesday, Lee encapsulates more than 150 years of history following June 19, 1865 when news of the abolition of slavery finally reached Texas – more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. In less than 30 minutes, the play tells an impactful story following the character of Emancipation Jones on a journey from the first Juneteenth celebration through the civil rights movement to President Barack Obama’s election.
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https://sanantonioreport.org/witte-museums-juneteenth-play-brings-150-years-of-history-to-life/
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JUNETEENTH THE STAGE PLAY
Every year On the 19th of June millions of people around the world celebrate Juneteenth, slaves started this tradition as a remembrance to never forget the day Texas freed their slaves, which was 1865, two and a half years after they were ordered to free them. PLAY SYNOPSIS: Juneteenth stage play is a story of how love, faith, and prayer between a Texas slave-women name Tippy and a Texas slave man named Henry sustained them through slavery, even for the additional two and a half years that Texas kept their slaves. This stage play is an eye opener, guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat as the history of Juneteenth is revealed. In addition this production also provides answers to why residue from slavery has such a negative impact on society today.
https://juneteenththeplay.com
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Commemorating the events of Juneteenth, Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate New York (BTTUNY) will present a virtual reading of Celeste Bedford Walker’s searing historical drama, CAMP LOGAN.
The play chronicles the story of six Black U.S. soldiers and the incidents leading to the tragic 1917 racially charged riot in Houston, Texas that left dozens dead or wounded in the streets. In the aftermath of what was deemed a mutiny by the military courts martial, 19 Black soldiers were executed by hanging and 47 were sentenced to life in prison without parole. The reading will air beginning 5 p.m. June 19 and remain available for streaming through June 22.
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https://saratogatodaynewspaper.com/today-in-saratoga/pulse/item/13863-black-theatre-troupe-of-upstate-new-york-presents-juneteenth-reading-of-camp-logan
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