EVENTS AND NEWS

AS YOU LOVE IT runs May 9-24 at Zeiders Theater

Zeiders’ Curtain Up New Play Series is presenting As You Love It, with performances May 9 through May 24. In an alternate version of early 20th century New York, a young woman forges an undiscovered Shakespeare play to impress her antiquarian father and the actress with whom she’s falling in love.  The young woman’s play – a […]

Theatre East premieres BARRIER ISLANDS in 5×5 Drama Series

BARRIER ISLANDS opens November 30th at Theatre East, in Long Island City.  The one-act play, commissioned for the theater’s 5×5 Drama Series, runs through Dec. 3rd. Directed by Avery Banks, the play features Christa Kimlicko-Jones and Caroline Jewell.

Voyage Theatre Company premieres DON’T LOOK BACK at HERE Arts Center

Directed by Wayne Maughans, this Voyage Theatre Company production opened in June 2022, and featured Cynthia Bastidas, Masha King, Jeff Rubino, and Lina Silver. “…a play that seems at once classic and fresh.” – Eye on Dance and The Arts “Although Mr. Kraar brings a decidedly contemporary bent to the famous tale, his play stays admirably rooted in the […]

Boomerang Theatre Company premieres The Karpovsky Variations at A.R.T./New York Gural Theater

Boomerang Theatre’s production of The Karpovsky Variations ran May 13th  through May 29th at A.R.T./New York’s Gural Theater. “a wonderfully acted exploration of the search for one’s own song, both solo and within the sometimes tumultuous chorus of family.  …A symphony-sized story told as an intimate chamber piece, The Karpovsky Variations really sings.”  – Thinking Theater NYC. “A brilliant, […]

Association for Theatre in Higher Education workshop of Stuck Inside The Walls

In August 2021, my short play Stuck Inside The Walls was part of ATHE’s New Play Development Workshop.  The workshop culminated in a rehearsed virtual reading at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference.

Working Theater presents two commissioned one-acts

In February 2020, The Working Theater revived of my one-acts, commissioned for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Directed by Sarah Norris, the two plays featured Bob Arcaro, Bob Jaffe, Brandon Jones, Jonathan Randell Silver and Angie Tennant.

This Tainted Earth reading at Project Y Theatre

On December 9th at 7:30 PM, THIS TAINTED EARTH will have a reading at ART/NY (520 8th Ave., 3rd Floor), presented by Project Y Theatre. Directed by Tasha Gordon-Solmon, the reading features Charise Greene, Eliza Huberth, Daniel Johnson, Stacey Linnartz, Sean McIntyre, Patricia Randell, Joseph Siravo, and Angie Tennant The play is a lyrical drama about a powerful family striving to preserve their […]

Off-Broadway premiere of ALTERNATING CURRENTS

The Working Theater premiere of ALTERNATING CURRENTS started performances on April 26, in Queens, and then traveled to Urban Stages in Manhattan (May 1 – 20), followed by a tour to the other boroughs. REVIEWS: “This multiplicity of voices shines through in Alternating Currents, which, with only six actors but an entire community’s worth of characters, fills Urban […]

THE KARPOVKSY VARIATIONS finalist for Blue Ink Playwriting Award

The American Blues Theater designated THE KARPOVSKY VARIATIONS a Finalist for the 2018 Blue Ink Playwriting Award.

DANCING ON THE EDGE production at Theatre Novi Most

A tragi-comedy about Isadora Duncan in Russia after the Revolution, DANCING ON THE EDGE opens September 7th at the Southern Theatre in Minneapolis.  The production will also tour to New Paltz, with performances Sept. 21st and 22nd at the McKenna Theatre at SUNY. The play was commissioned and developed by Theatre Novi Most. REVIEWS: “The illusion […]