Wordsmyth Theater Company (Houston, TX) is now accepting one-act or two-act
play submissions for our New Play Reading Series for 2023. Six plays will be
selected, with one slot reserved for a Houston, TX playwright and another slot
reserved for a bilingual play — any language. Each selected playwright will be
paired with a director and cast. The play will then be read in front of an
audience and the audience will be invited to stay after for a moderated
discussion of the play. We do expect the playwright to be in attendance for the
reading.
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Eden Theater Company allows for emerging playwrights to develop a new play with
ETC artists. The playwright collaborates with Eden’s Artistic collective to
better hone the structure, characters and arcs in their playwriting. We hope
that the work developed provides an empathetic vantage into different experiences,
and states of spiritual being.
We are calling for playwrights to submit an application to participate in our
lab series, and are especially seeking New York City playwrights who feel their
voice is marginalized, by their age, gender, race, ethnicity or beliefs.
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The Object Movement Puppetry Festival is an annual presentation of new short
works developed in residence at The Center at West Park. Curated by Maiko
Kikuchi, Rowan Magee, Marcella Murray, and Justin Perkins, Object Movement supports
the development of new puppetry and object theater by artists in the NYC metro
area, culminating in an annual festival of short performances.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site
at https://www.nycplaywrights.org
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*** TRANSGENDER THEATER ***
The Civility of Albert Cashier is a folk/Americana musical with book by GLAAD nominated
writer Jay Paul Deratany, music by Joe Stevens and Keaton Wooden (lyrics by
Stevens, Wooden, and Deratany). Detailing the life of Civil War soldier Albert
DJ Cashier, who fought for the Union in over 40 engagements. At the end of his
when he retires to the Soldiers and Sailors home in Saunemin, Illinois, a
life-long secret is discovered. Albert was born Jennifer Hodgers.
More...
https://www.albertcashierthemusical.com/about
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Two decades before Neil Patrick Harris dared to don a golden pair of go-go
boots to portray the “internationally ignored song stylist” know as Hedwig
Schmidt, John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask were perfecting the act on the
New York City drag scene. In the wake of Hedwig and the Angry Inch‘s latest
theatrical incarnation — which just racked up eight Tony nominations — we
caught up with several of the creative minds who have contributed to Hedwig’s
past, present, and future to create an (appropriately) oral history.
More...
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/gender-bender-an-oral-history-of-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch-185066/
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AS ONE is a chamber opera in which two voices—Hannah after and Hannah
before—share the part of a sole transgender protagonist. Fifteen songs comprise
the three-part narrative; with empathy and humor, they trace Hannah’s
experiences from her youth in a small town to her college years—and finally
traveling alone to a different country, where she realizes some truths about
herself.
More...
https://www.asoneopera.com/history
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Written by sisters Nicola and Stacey Bland, Call Me Vicky is a debut play based
entirely on a true story. This hard-hitting, comic production charts Vicky’s
transition from male to female in a time that was far less understanding than
the world we live in today.
It’s 1980 in Elephant and Castle. Martin and best friend Debbie are getting
ready for another night out at Martin’s favourite night spot, The Golden Girl –
one of Soho’s premier drag clubs. However, tonight is not a regular night out.
Tonight is the night that will change Martin’s life forever.
More...
https://thelivereview.co.uk/call-me-vicky-review-pleasance-theatre/
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Karen Black’s performance as Joanne in Robert Altman’s Come Back to the Five
and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) is the only trans performance by a
cisgender person that I love with no reservations. Her work is so precise and
hyper-specific that I still wonder to this day how she got to a place that
feels so naturalistic in its understanding of transness. Karen Black was not a
trans woman, and her work prior to this role was usually more acidic with an
outward comfort in playing proud women who were sidekicks for men and their
problems like Jack Nicholson’s Bobby Dupea in Five Easy Pieces (1970) or her
last act arrival in Easy Rider (1969). but with this performance she is dominant,
commanding and whole. It is the finest of her career.
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean was a stage play before
Altman adapted it into a one-set film with a gimmicked mirror to elucidate the
shift between past and present. In this movie a gang of women who were in a
club called “The Disciples of James Dean” are reuniting twenty years after the
death of the actor in their small town of Woolworth, Texas. But there is
something the other women don’t know, and it’s that their old friend Joe (Mark
Patton, who is great here) is now going by Joanne, and her transformation acts
like a lightning bolt of passed time for all these women.
More...
http://curtsiesandhandgrenades.com/index.php/2021/05/24/the-performances-i-love-karen-black-in-come-back-to-the-five-and-dime-jimmy-dean-jimmy-dean/
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Mark Howard moves away from his childhood home to a rural, upstate town in
search of a new type of family. When he picks up a stockroom position at the
town’s local orchard, he’s met with toxic masculinity and comes to terms with
his newfound male privilege. And during his first day, he befriends Dani
Thompson, a Black queer woman who’s opening her own gay bar. Over time, these
two very regular people form and find chosen family in one another and their
community.
More...
https://www.regularsmusical.com/about
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The world premiere of a stage musical adaptation of the groundbreaking Amazon
series “Transparent” will highlight the 2022-23 season of Center Theater Group
in Los Angeles, the company announced Thursday.
The production, “A Transparent Musical,” features characters from the original
series about a sexagenarian parent in a Jewish Los Angeles family who comes out
as a transgender woman. The new musical comedy is billed as “a story of
self-discovery, acceptance and celebration.” It will have its world premiere in
May at the Mark Taper Forum.
More...
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/theater/transparent-musical-center-theater-group.html
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