Please join Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and Erbaluce for our Second Sunday Play Reading Series in the upstairs dining room of Erbaluce. On the second Sunday of each month we read a new play by a local playwright, using professional actors from the Boston theatre community. The excellent (and FREE) hors d’oeuvres offered by Chef Charles Draghi are reason enough to be there, but these plays are still in flux and their talented playwrights welcome your smart feedback on what you’ve heard!

Please join us for our next event on March 8:

The Housekeeper
by Ginger Lazarus
When Adelina takes a job as a housekeeper for widower Charlie Frey and his daughter Kaila, she is not surprised to meet Charlie’s dead wife, Carson. It’s happened to her before. But soon she finds herself confronting more mess than she can handle—in the Frey family chaos, and in her own life. Featuring Kortney Adams, Luis Negron, Christine Power, and Alexis Scheer.

The reading begins at 7 p.m.

YOU MUST RESERVE YOUR SEAT AT reservations@erbaluce-boston.com.

We hope you’ll join us for this exciting season-long celebration of new plays by our MFA playwrights from the class of 2015:

She Eats Apples by Stephanie K. Brownell | October 10-15, 2014
Broken by William Carter | December 6-10, 2014
Sickle by Abbey Fenbert | February 18-22, 2015
Restricted by Danyele Brickner | February 25-March 1, 2015
Equal Writes by Phil Schroeder | April 15-19, 2015

No reservations needed for these FREE events.

For more than a decade, the Boston Theater Marathon has brought together New England playwrights, directors, and theatres to create a day-long event that is fun, moving, and always surprising. The BTM features 50 ten-minute plays, by 50 New England playwrights, produced by 50 New England theatres…in ten hours! We’ll start at noon and wrap up promptly at 10 p.m., with a party to follow.

Your all-day pass ($25 in advance; $35 the day of the event) allows you to come and go as you please. As always, net proceeds from ticket sales to the BTM benefit the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund, which provides financial support to theatres and theatre artists in times of need. We hope you’ll join us!

BTM XVII is generously supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities.

Hanna, a brutally blunt international journalist, is struggling to come to terms with her husband’s violent death. After accepting a seemingly tame assignment, she becomes increasingly obsessed with uncovering the history of another Hannah: the infamous Hannah Duston who was kidnapped by a Native American raiding party in 1697. Soon the stories of the two Hanna(h)s begin to merge into a single portrait of a smart woman, torn from the only world she knows, who crosses the line between civilization and her own wilderness.

Three generations of mothers and memories combine to change the fate of a schizophrenic man at the Port Authority Bus Terminal as he waits for a sister he hardly knows, to fulfill an agreement that was never made. Adoption, desertion, and forgiveness—all this makes up a family. What are the ties that bind?

In this modern-day retelling of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, Uncle Jack, his niece Sonya, and his British brother-in-law Derek struggle to save their small summer theatre company in the Berkshires…and the company’s looming demise causes old wounds to bleed afresh. Jack fires a keepsake pistol, Derek runs for cover, and hearts are broken. A comedy of Chekhovian proportions!

A co-production with the Boston Center for American Performance