*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
Frigid NY Holiday Spirits seeks 10-minute plays
Run time should be around 10 minutes and no longer than 15 minutes
Feature 2-4 actors (no monologues)
Be a full piece, not an excerpt from a larger whole.
Be written in either English or Spanish
The piece should in some way connect with the theme described below.
The selected writers will receive an $80 stipend.
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Theatre Noir Blanc is a new theatre company based in the city of Dallas, Texas. Our mission is to create, develop, and produce original works that explore the gay interracial experience–pushing boundaries, taking creative risks, and fostering an inclusive community that inspires a future generation of theatre-makers.
We are launching our inaugural season in 2026 and preparing for the 2027 season. Our goal is to produce four original unproduced full-length plays each season that explore our mission statement. The vision of Theatre Noir Blanc is to elevate these bold, untold narratives by national and international playwrights that reflect the richness and complexity of a diverse world.
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The Decameron Project – Hollywood is seeking One-Minute Play submissions
The plays will be produced as a theatrical production in the Spring of 2026 in Los Angeles.
Please submit up to 5 plays.
We are encouraging first-time writers to submit works in standard play format.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** ROCKY HORROR AT 50 ***
It’s been 50 years since The Rocky Horror Show first did the Time Warp (again).
While the mind flip of a musical remains searingly relevant in today’s cultural landscape, its journey from a 60-seat theatre in London to more cinema screens than could ever possibly be tallied hasn’t exactly been A to B to C. Now, for the first time, that journey has been preserved in the form of an endearingly personal documentary.
Titled Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror, the 89-minute doc is directed by Linus O’Brien (son of Rocky Horror’s originating supernova Richard O'Brien), and features intimate archival recordings from Rocky Horror history, from its earliest whispers to its most raucous fan events. Interspersed are interviews with many of the stage show (and the Rocky Horror Picture Show) stars, including Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, and of course, Richard O’Brien.
“You know, it's strange,” Linus O’Brien laughs. Born in 1972, Linus was less than a year old when his father’s creation took the world by storm. He knows no life without it on the periphery. “It pops into my life at different moments. I’ve seen various stage productions since I was four. People ask me what it was like, but honestly? My dad was my dad and Rocky was Rocky. They're two very separate things. I knew my dad had this incredible job, but it was all very normal for me. Now, to revisit all of it and examine the history of Rocky 50 years on, and see it all with new eyes… It's a real, real privilege, is what it is. And I'm very, very grateful for the opportunity to understand it in a new way, now.”
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https://playbill.com/article/give-a-voice-to-the-voiceless-richard-obrien-on-50-years-of-the-rocky-horror-show-and-its-impact-on-the-queer-community
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Fifty years have passed, but the actor Tim Curry isn’t sure he has ever forgiven the reception that “The Rocky Horror Show” received in its original Broadway production, which was also his Broadway debut.
“I try not to think about it,” he said the other day by phone from Los Angeles. “There’s not much point in paddling through old failures.”
Curry was back on Broadway the fall after “Rocky Horror,” in Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties.” But, wanting not to be reminded, he has never returned to the Belasco Theater on West 44th Street, where the musical spoof that would soon become a cult-film phenomenon started previews on March 7, 1975, opened on March 10 and lasted just a month.
On the heels of the show’s successes in London, where it began in 1973 in the tiny upstairs theater at the Royal Court, and then in Los Angeles, at the Roxy nightclub, it was the kind of Broadway fizzle that seems baffling in retrospect — not least because some of its cast overlapped with the movie’s.
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https://archive.ph/B4tMl
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“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” was an absolute flop when it premiered in 1975.
The iconic, campy horror musical garnered horrible reviews from critics, and maybe rightfully so. Its plot makes little sense and is just plain weird. The film is an acquired taste, with dramatic musical numbers mixed with oddly-placed violence and other horrific content.
But years after it first hit the stage, fans still attend midnight showings in costume, where they yell the callbacks everyone seems to know by heart at the screen as if reading from a script. I personally love asking Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry, “Clue”) who his favorite “Star Trek” character is when he pronounces the word “spark” like “Spock.” Audience responses like these that play on the phrases characters say — in the film and accompanying shadow cast production — are my favorites. Whether you’re rocking a maid costume and frizzy red hair or a sparkly rainbow outfit and tap shoes, there is a place in the theater for everyone in the “Rocky Horror” community, and I’m ecstatic to be a part of it.
When I arrived at the University of Michigan, I had only the perspective of a small Episcopal high school with little Queer or gender non-conforming representation. About a year into my college experience, I chopped off my hair. I tried out new pronouns. A new name. And I realized that there is so much more to who I am than the person I pretended to be for so long. “Rocky Horror” was a formative part of that realization.
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https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/b-side/from-flop-to-the-top-the-community-of-the-rocky-horror-picture-show/#google_vignette
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If you're going to The Rocky Horror Show in the park, it's not the time to sit there quietly and mind your manners. You MUST participate! Of course, you're not a Rocky Horror virgin. (And if you are, keep it to yourself, trust us.) But if you need a refresher on what to pack in your prop bag and when to use it, here's a guide. American Stage will do some of the work for you, selling several of these items in participation kits for $5 at the concession stand. (An asterisk denotes what's included in kit.)
Remember! Try not to throw things at the stage or people around you. Toss up.
Rice To throw at newlyweds Ralph Hapschatt and Betty Munroe at the beginning of the show. Many fans will bring rice, though there is concern it will harm birds that eat it (snopes.com says it won't, but you decide). It also can be slick onstage. American Stage's kit includes a bubblemaker instead.
Confetti or bubbles At the end of the I Can Make You a Man (the Charles Atlas song) reprise, the Transylvanians throw confetti as Rocky and Frank head toward the bedroom. Or you could blow bubbles instead — easier to clean up.
Newspaper* When Brad and Janet are caught in the storm, Janet covers her head with a newspaper, and you should do the same. Oh look, you have a good one in your hands. Take it!
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https://www.tampabay.com/features/performingarts/the-rocky-horror-show-a-guide-to-props-and-participation/1224353/
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New York Times March 11, 1975
Stage: A Flashy ‘Rocky Horror Show’
by Clive Barnes
...The cast, apart from Tim Curry as the dire transexual villain from Transylvania, Frank 'n' Furter. and Mr. O'Brien himself, is different from the London cast. The show stopped on the way in Los Angeles, and this was almost certainly a mistake.
It is smarter, now, but nothing like so crazy or, if one were in a mildly tolerant mood, so endearing. It now looks flashy, expensive and overstaged. The cast is better, the lights are brighter, the noise is more loudly ampli-field. But jokes-sick jokes, silly jokes, or even dirty jokes-are rarely improved by shouting them' down a megaphone. More is often less-
Mr. O'Brien's original idea of a modest spoof was both sophomoric and ingenious, It was just a romp, but there was some nice fantasy in its solemn Vincent Pricc-style narrator solemnly turning the pages of a dusty volumne and in sepulchral tones telling of the fate and future of the young hero and heroine Janet and Brad, when one rainspet night their car breaks down and they ring the broken bell of an awfully gothic castle.
The idea of Frankenstein as a bisexual transvestite, with a baritone voice, fish-net tights and black lipstick, was also perversely attractive. One forgave the music that was bright but not especially original - hard-rock candy, bublbe-gum and popcorn - and the performances that were camp and dreadful.
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https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/11/archives/stage-a-flashy-rocky-horror-show.html
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Spring 2026
The legendary rock-‘n’-roll musical takes on new life as a guaranteed party at the legendary Studio 54, staged by Tony Award®-winning Oh, Mary! director Sam Pinkleton. With 51 years of continuous productions, seen by over 35 million people around the world, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show features some of the most iconic musical show stopping classics of all time, including “Dammit Janet,” “Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a Touch Me,” “Hot Patootie” and of course, “Time Warp,” the party floor-filler.
The Rocky Horror Show is the story of two squeaky clean college kids—Brad and his fiancée, Janet—on their way to visit their former college professor when by a twist of fate, their car breaks down outside a mansion. They meet the charismatic Dr. Frank-n-Furter, Riff Raff, Columbia, Magenta, Eddie, and Rocky. It is an adventure they would remember, for a very long time. Filled with fun, frolics and frocks, this is the show the Daily Telegraph calls “fresh. Subversive, and essential.”
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https://www.roundabouttheatre.org/get-tickets/2025-2026-season/rocky-horror
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October 10 – November 2
The Bucks County Playhouse’s October tradition returns! “Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show!” A musical that inspired the 1975 classic cult film, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” follows innocent couple Brad and Janet as they seek shelter at a mysterious old castle on a dark and stormy night, where they encounter transvestite Dr. Frank ‘N’ Furter, his “perfect” creation Rocky, and an assortment of other crazy creatures.
Third party websites may be selling tickets to “The Rocky Horror Show” that are NOT valid and will not guarantee admission to the show. The only authorized vendor for Bucks County Playhouse tickets is through our website. If anyone offers you tickets to the Playhouse at any price in social media, please reach out to the Box Office so we can investigate properly.
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https://bcptheater.org/shows/the-rocky-horror-show/