2020-2021 Season, No Child...
Contemporary Playwrights of Color: Nilaja Sun
The site is created and compiled by students in the NYU Steinhardt Educational Theatre course called “American Theatre II: Contemporary Playwrights of Color.” The website is expanded each semester that the course is offered, so…
Source: NYU Steinhardt Educational Theatre
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Interview with Ali & Celia
The Vancouver Sun’s Shawn Conner interviews Ali Watson and Celia Aloma about their return to live performance in No Child…
Source: The Vancouver Sun
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Nilaja Sun Mini‑Doc
In this short documentary by Alexander Morelli for Franklin & Marshall College, Nilaja Sun discusses her education and the thrill of receiving an honorary doctorate from her Alma Mater.
Source: Franklin & Marshall College
Read MoreNoises Off
Detailed Synopsis (spoiler alert)
ACT ONE The cast of a comic play, Nothing On, rehearses at a theatre in Weston-super-Mare, England, the night before the show is set to premiere. Lloyd Dallas directs Dotty Otley (playing the role of…
Source: Arts Club Theatre Company
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Q&A with Playwright David Yee
What inspired you to write this play and specifically, to focus on the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami? It was sort of impossible to ignore. The magnitude of the event and its impact on…
Source: Arts Club Theatre Company
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Detailed Synopsis (Spoiler alert)
“The Leap Second Story” At the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, Australia, a female scientist, Beckett, gives a very strange press conference. She emphasizes the fact that “the earth changes speed and position…
Source: Arts Club Theatre Company
Read MorePeter Pan Goes Wrong
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ACT I A community-theatre troupe is set to perform Peter Pan. Chris, the show’s director, and the assistant director, Robert, announce to the audience that they’ve “managed to secure a much larger budget than…
Source: Arts Club Theatre Company
Read MoreEvery Brilliant Thing
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The Narrator (who can be played by a person of any gender, but will here, as in the script, be referred to as “he”) hands out scraps of paper to audience members. When he calls…