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*** FREE THEATER IN NYC ***

GREEN MIST
Developmental Immersive Reading with an Installation
Playwright Anel Carmona
Director Shellen Lubin
The Call Theatre, Creative Director, Karen Cecilia

June 13 @ Noon
June 14 @ 6pm
Fiona's Bar
562 Flatbush Ave Brooklyn (corner of Beekman Pl.) 
B/Q to Prospect Park

Three families have taken refuge at a bed-and-breakfast after an unprecedented storm that produced a mysterious green mist.While the mist lingers outside they will have to learn to survive in the house. Not knowing with this mist is, the most dangerous threat might be closer to them than the mist itself.



*** FREE THEATER ONLINE ***

SPACE RACE the YouTube Musical
Kyle Fackrell's one-man-show begins today on YouTube - Watch the crew of Captain Jaren as they race through space to save the solar system. 


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The Episcopal Actors’ Guild festival celebrating new work for the theatre will return in June 2021 and feature virtual readings of three new plays nominated by this year’s partnering company, Leviathan Lab.
 
The festival begins on Monday, June 7 at 7pm with a reading of Learning How to Read by Moonlight by Gaven D. Trinidad. Next, on Monday June 14 at 7pm is Panic Room: An Unkindness of Ravens by Cherry Lou Sy. Closing the festival on Monday, June 21 at 7pm is Garrett David Kim’s Are You There, Truman?. One of these three playwright finalists will be awarded a prize of $500.
Online via Zoom

Pay what you will - free is an option.


*** ONLINE THEATER PARTICIPATION ***

Carlow Little Theatre Society
Join us every Wednesday night on Zoom, when we will be reading extracts of the works of Shakespeare for future performance. Contact us via carlowlittletheatre@gmail.com or message us via our social media channels for the link. All are welcome.



*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***

The Yale Drama Series is seeking submissions for its 2022 playwriting competition. The winning play will be selected by the series' current judge, Paula Vogel. The winner of this annual competition will be awarded the David Charles Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of their manuscript by Yale University Press, and a staged reading or virtual performance. The prize and publication are contingent on the playwright's agreeing to the terms of the publishing agreement.

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IATI Theater is accepting scripts for its 2022 Cimientos Season. This program is open to authors from anywhere in the world with original works in English or Spanish who are interested in feedback from a New York audience.

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To encourage the development of quality theatrical materials for the educational, community and children’s theatre markets, Pioneer Drama Service is proud to sponsor the annual Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest.
This is an ongoing contest, with a winner selected by June 1 each year from all eligible submissions received the previous year.  All eligible plays accepted for publication will be considered contest finalists, from which the winner will be selected.  The contest winner will receive a $1,000 royalty advance in addition to publication.


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



*** RANDOM PLAYS ON DOOLLEE.COM THAT HAVE NAMES WE LIKED ***


THE KUNG FU IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Unusual take on Oscar Wilde's classic comedy the Importance of Being earnest. Two English gentlemen in the 1890s secretly use the name 'ernest' in their double lives. . .until they fall for English ladies who cherish honesty. They settle their differences according to the ancient methods of the Shaolin monks.


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OFFED AT THE BAKE-OFF
Flashback to 1955, the stormy evening before the 33rd annual Knotting Bake-Off, brought to you by J & J Toothpaste. The contestants have gathered at the Knotting Inn down at the Jersey Shore, each hoping that their perfectly crafted baked good will win the coveted blue ribbon. It seems someone's dessert is more deadly than tasty, though, when they discover an entire gaggle of bratty students have been poisoned during a press conference. It is clear that someone at the inn has a sweet tooth for murder. But who could the culprit be? The egotistical bake-off champion? The hard-of-hearing elderly man? The practical jokester nun? The silent fitness model? The clumsy reporter? The amnesiac woman? Or one of the other kooky bake-off contestants roaming around the inn? When a detective (whose name also happens to be Detective) arrives on the scene, he asks the audience to help him figure out whodunit. Flying accusations and flying pies are just a few of the fun ingredients that make this murder mystery a recipe for a hilarious night at the theatre.


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THE ABSOLUTE MOST CLICHED ELEVATOR PLAY IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE
When a crowded elevator becomes stuck, one of the passengers, a playwriting instructor, thinks that everybody is in fact trapped in a cliched play by an inexperienced playwright. After all, the elevator does contain a quick-tempered Biker, a spaced-out New Age Woman, and an agitated Pregnant Woman. But when the Instructor goes searching for the playwright, the elevator expands to include even more stereotypes including over-eager cheerleaders, a Goth Kid who writes bad poetry and, of course, a clown. Will the Instructor find the playwright before the cliches become out of control?


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CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE'S CHLOROFORM DREAMS
Renaissance dramatist Christopher Marlowe is reimagined as a hard-hitting, hard-drinking private eye in a hazy, dreamlike noir-world laced with fairy tales. Marlowe stands accused of heresy by a villainous druglord who knocks him out with chloroform and leaves him asleep in a speakeasy basement. Moments reinterpreting myths and fairy tales mingle with tropes and archetypes of the genre, the legend around Marlowe s own turbulent biography and the mythology of the play itself: a tangle of religion, love, addiction, and heresy however it 's defined.


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YOU ME BUM BUM TRAIN
It's a crazed theatrical wonderland - a whirlwind tour through a series of perfectly sealed, seamlessly realised scenes in which you are the starring actor. There are no other audience members. and nobody's thought to tell you your lines.


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A GREAT FRESCO OF STUPIDITY
Ernest Lynch is fast tracked for the White House. His firebrand party head, Tred, revels in the coming victory, and his common law wife, Aleida, hopes his new online predator law will provide the protection their son Ryan never had. However, in an interview, Ernest lets slip his religious beliefs or lack thereof. Soon he must make his electoral stand in Kansas, where he was born, but banished from because of an undisclosed entanglement with a 15 year old girl. When tornadoes hit the state, a flag with the face of Jesus on it leads to online bidding, MMA fights, and a number of other schemes to win the election, as Aleida's hope for Ryan's Law fades.


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SLAPPY MACPANTS, PRANCING JACKSON AND THE FRENCH TICKLER
Prancing Jackson loves to dance. the French Tickler loves to tickle. Slappy MacPants loves murdering dancers and French men.

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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. - Cyril Connolly