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March Staged Reading

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March 29 & 30, 3:00pm
Un Hombre: A Golem Story 
by Stephen Kaplan

Directed by Sydnie Grosberg Ronga
Rebecca Wolfson, a sculptor, is struggling to get back on track after the untimely death of her husband. She is suffering from intense artist’s block, and her son is withdrawn, failing Spanish, and unprepared for his upcoming Bar Mitzvah. All seems hopeless until a lot of wine and a little magic transform a hunk of clay into the answer to all of their problems. But when her creation begins questioning his own purpose and existence, both mother and son are forced to confront their grief and grow in ways they never expected.
Un Hombre: A Golem Story has been a Finalist for the Jewish Plays Project as well as a winner of the Barbour Award in NYC, and also a Finalist for Gulfshore Playhouse New Works Festival, Chameleon Theatre Circle’s New Play Contest, Wild Imaginings Epiphanies, and a Semi-Finalist for Ashland New Plays Festival and Bay Street Theatre’s Title Wave Festival of New Works. It’s also received readings with TRU’s Voices Reading Series, NJ Play Lab, Luna Stage, Skeleton Rep(resents), Wild Imaginings, and Round the Bend Theatre.

Stephen Kaplan Selected awards and productions: NNPN Rolling World Premiere: Tracy Jones (Finalist: ScreenCraft Stage Play Contest, B Street New Comedies Festival, Trustus Playwrights Festival); Long Drive Home (Theatre Aspen Solo Flights); Un Hombre: A Golem Story (Winner: Barbour Award; Finalist: Gulfshore Playhouse New Works Festival, Jewish Plays Project, Chameleon Theatre Circle’s New Play Contest, Wild Imaginings Epiphanies; Development: NJ PlayLab); Branwell (and other Brontës) (Semi-Finalist: O’Neill); Community (Finalist: Seven Devils; Road Less Traveled National Residency, Semi-Finalist: Premiere Stages, March Forth Productions); Exquisite Potential (Theatre Ariel, Dezart Performs, Project Rushmore; Winner: NJ Playwrights Contest, Across the Generations New Jewish Play Festival, Finalist: Woodward/Newman Award, Semi-Finalist: Seven Devils); A Real Boy (59E59 Theatre, Last Act Theater, This Is Water Theatre and Semi-Finalist: PlayPenn, Ashland New Play Festival, Dayton Playhouse FutureFest and MTWorks’ Newborn Festival). SPACE at Ryder Farm. MFA: Point Park University. www.bystephenkaplan.com


April Play Reading

Edgar Wilson by Katherine Ambrosio
Wednesday, April 2, 7:30 pm – Kleinert/James Center For The Arts, Woodstock
Friday, April 4, 7:30 pm – Voice Theatre, Bethany Hall, KIngston
A gifted boy, a gypsy mother and mysticism. A soldier is there to help reveal the meaning behind it all.

Garden of Memories by Jessica Bashline
Wednesday, April 9, 7:30 pm – Kleinert/James Center For The Arts, Woodstock
Friday, April 11, 7:30 pm – Voice Theatre, Bethany Hall, Kingston
Homes have memory- 1982 and 2018 mix and mingle on the same stage, with the young parents moving through their adult aged children’s lives as secrets are revealed.

The Hardest Cut by Catherine Berg
Wednesday, April 16, 7:30 pm – Kleinert/James Center For The Arts, Woodstock
Friday, April 17, 7:30 pm – Voice Theatre, Bethany Hall, Kingston
This Lake house dramedy explores the memories and truths that binds a family as everyone must move on.

Photos from Our Last Reading

Greenville Tomorrow by Chris Widney
Featuring: Darryl Mayhand, Daralyn Jay, Russell Roberts, Michael Boden, Ovi Vargas

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