
Readings of new plays by Kimber Lee and Heather Raffo
Two great plays I'm reading in coming weeks: to the yellow house by kimber lee a Studio Retreat at The Lark Monday, June 6 and Tuesday, June (free) Noura by Heather Raffo Classic Stage Company's First Look Festival Monday, June 13 ($30) #readings #theatre #heatherraffo #kimberlee

BRUNCH OF SHAME, EST/Youngblood January Brunch
Sunday, January 3, I'm invited back to EST for their January, shame-themed brunch. Tickets here. Here's the lineup. SHAME: A PARABLE
By Alex Borinsky
Directed by Dara Malina
With Dylan Dawson*, Arielle Goldman, Alex Grubbs, Jason Liebman*, and Shawn Randall* SINVERGUËNZA
By Christina Quintana
Directed by Courtney Ulrich
With Jonathan Hooks, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Mike Smith Rivera*, Nathaniel Wade, and Akyiaa Wilson TIGHTY-WHITIES!
By Cary Gitter
Directed Colette R

GUARDS AT THE TAJ at Woolly Mammoth
India, 1648: two imperial guards watch as the sun rises over the newly-completed Taj Mahal, an awe-inspiring monument to the emperor’s dead queen. But awe gives way to terror when the guards are given a new assignment: to perform a bloody task whose grisly aftermath will force them to question the very ideas of beauty, responsibility, and friendship. Guards at the Taj—from playwright Rajiv Joseph and director John Vreeke, the team that brought us Gruesome Playground Injuries—

BAH HUMBRUNCH, EST/Youngblood December Brunch
So damn excited to be back at Ensemble Studio Theatre for their December brunch, Sunday the 6th at 1pm. If you've never been to an EST/Youngblood brunch, this is how it works: $18 ticket gets you access to an all you can eat buffet of eggs, bacon, pancakes, muffins, and coffee, plus an open bar of bottomless bloody marys and mimosas. And - as if that wasn't already the best brunch deal ever - you also get to see 5 or 6 short plays by our generations' brightest playwrights. It

HIGHLY SUSPECT, a workshop at The New Group
A comedy about two oddly matched roommates in Brooklyn: a young love-lorn Arab-American pothead named Muhammad Muhammad, and Cassius, a brilliant, high-strung ex-con who sells his organic muffins at the Farmer's Market. As their grip on their lives begins to slip, they both go to absurd lengths to pull themselves, and each other, out of their funks. A story of finding allies where you least expect them. Highly Suspect by Ghazi Albuliwi directed by Ian Morgan with Ghazi Albuli