Readings are an essential part of the play development process. We are proud to offer our PrimeTime Reading Series as a creative lab for emerging and established playwrights. PrimeTime has blossomed into one of the hottest tickets in town. Conveniently located in our in-house rehearsal studios, PrimeTime provides a home for writers to hear their new work read aloud. Friends of Primary Stages are invited to attend and be a part of a playwright’s creative process. Several plays have received productions at Primary Stages since participating in PrimeTime including, Michael Hollinger’s Opus, Lee Blessing’s A Body of Water and Tina Howe’s Chasing Manet.
Readings are free of charge.
Wednesday, April 14 at 8:00pm
THE MORINI STRAD
Written by Willy Holtzman
Directed by Casey Childs
Starring Lynn Cohen and James Waterston
A craftsman hired to restore a priceless violin gets more than he bargained for when he makes a pact with the aging virtuosa who made it famous.
Sunday, April 18 at 7:00pm
LOST IN PLACE
Written by Lewis Black
Starring Joe Grifasi, Rebecca Nelson, and Mark Linn-Baker
An evening of three new short plays:
THE DEAL - Corporate comedy in waltz time. Think George Soros and Warren Buffet and Dancing with the Stars.
BETWEEN THE SONGS - Three boomers rekindle a chemical moment from their past, but it dies before Dylan finds his voice.
L.A. FREEWHEELING - Strawberries and Champagne on the summit of the D-List.
Wednesday, April 21 at 8:00pm
FASHON: A MUSICAL COMEDY
Writeen by Anna Cora Mowatt
Adapted by Anthony Stimac
Music by Don Pippin and lyrics by Steve Brown
In FASHION, the Long Island Mask and Wig Society, an all female amateur drama club, is putting on a musical written for them by their handsome, sexy male director, Richard. Richard has rehearsed each of them individually in the privacy of their own homes and is bringing them together for their first run-through. The musical he has written is based upon the first American play written by a woman in 1845, also titled FASHION. The fashionably gowned women play the men's as well as the women's roles, with the exception of the phony French count, who is played, of course, by Richard, in this timeless (and timely) comedy of manners about.
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