Jersey City Theater Center s 2021 New Play Festival To Take Place Online
(JERSEY CITY, NJ) The Jersey City Theater Center’s 2021 New Play Festival, part of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance’s 2021 Stages Festival, will present ten new plays about healing from the US, Canada and New Zealand on four consecutive Thursdays, from May 6 to May 27. All shows are at 7:30pm. The plays eight short plays and two full-length works will be presented on Zoom, followed by a live Q&A with the projects’ respective artistic teams. For tickets visit www.jctcenter.org
The full-length plays are: “Moon Drops” by Carol Campbell, Domnica Radulescu, and Nikaury Rodriguez on May 13; and “Love in the Time of Mass Incarceration” by Boris Franklin and Tequia Gladden on May 27.
Luna Stage Premieres New Play Via Text Message: #RIFT by Gabriel Jason Dean
(WEST ORANGE, NJ)
Gabriel Jason Dean launches this Friday, April 9 at
Luna Stage. Part One of the play will be delivered to subscribers’ phones over text message over the next eight weeks. Sign-ups will be accepted through April 23, but capacity is limited. Reservations are required, and are available at
Through the lens of two real-life brothers one a convicted murderer, the other a playwright; one a member of the alt-right, the other an A.O.C.-type progressive
#RIFT explores whether it is possible to bridge fundamental political and ideological divides. Playwright Gabriel Jason Dean navigates a deeply personal landscape: his brother is currently incarcerated, and the two had barely spoken in 10 years. In creating this piece, Dean reconnected with his brother to explore the roots of their differences, to see if there is any way to find common ground, and to try to understand what love means
GOCCNJ, NJAAW, and NJHCQI to Host Free Advance Care Planning Virtual Town Hall in Conjunction with National Healthcare Decisions Day, April 16
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PRINCETON, N.J., April 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Goals of Care Coalition of New Jersey (GOCCNJ), New Jersey Advocates for Aging Well (NJAAW), and New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute s (NJHCQI) Conversation of Your Life (COYL) program are hosting a free virtual town hall meeting on April 16
th led by experts in advance care planning.
The purpose of this event is to provide information and tools for the public to encourage thoughtful conversations about their wishes with family, friends and healthcare providers, and execute written advance directives (healthcare power of attorney and living will) in accordance with NJ state laws. Individuals living with serious illness, their families, and caregivers are encouraged to attend, along with anyone seeking more information about advance
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Hudson Theatre Works streams PlayWorks Reading of New Plays for free
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New Jersey Theatre Alliance presents Hudson Theatre Works reading of “Closing Times”, a play by Derek Murphy, on March 25th at 7:30 p.m. This event is part of the Alliance’s Stages Festival, the state’s largest annual theatre festival, which provides free and discounted theatre events for all ages throughout the months of March, April, and May. This event is free.
The years haven’t been kind to Eddie Rappini, and Eddie Rappini hasn’t been kind to the years, now on borrowed time, the past has come to collect. Molly, a young lost soul from out of nowhere, is the key to Eddie’s salvation, but Molly seems bent on his destruction as she picks apart the ashes of his life.
East Lynne Theater Celebrates Women s History Month With Reading of SOMETHING TO VOTE FOR
Actors include Pat Dwyer ( Silent Sky ), Rachel Holt ( Dracula and Ah, Wilderness! ), Jared Mason Murray ( Summerland ), and more.by BWW News Desk
East Lynne Theater Company will present a reading of Something to Vote For by Charlotte Perkins Gilman for free, due to support from The New Jersey Council for the Humanities through its NJ Women Vote: The 19th Amendment at 100 initiative, and The New Jersey Theatre Alliance s Stages Festival.
Gilman (1860 - 1935) known for her novel The Yellow Wallpaper, published this forty-minute one-act in her monthly magazine, The Forerunner, in 1911. Such plays were important for the suffrage movement because they could be read aloud and/or staged in private homes, bringing this controversial topic into living rooms. Many of the British suffrage plays survived - most of the American ones did not. This both witty and profound play takes place in t