Voices of BTM XXIV: Michelle M. Aguillon
Tell us a little about your play. Michael and Michelle meet at an event at the old Presidio Military Base located at Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. In one instant, they were strangers; in the next instant, they bonded as if they were lifelong friends. The Presidio event commemorated a tragedy that occurred during […]
Boston Theater Marathon Returns to Live, In-Person Performances—and to BU
Feature from BU Today One of the 50 plays is titled Drop the Mask, but you still can’t do that at Boston Theater Marathon XXIV. After two years of virtual performances because of COVID, the annual showcase of short plays returns to live, in-person theater on Sunday, May 1—and to its original home on the […]
Voices of BTM XXIV: R. D. Murphy
Tell us a little about your play. August 2021. Allie is a whip-smart high school senior who is mechanically inclined. Give her a screw driver and a cell phone and she can solve any problem. Give her a 3D printer and a place to stand and worlds shift. Her neighbor, Mr. Gordon, has a car […]
Voices of BTM XXIV: Kyla Schultz
Tell us a little bit about your play. When you’re in the mountains looking over the trees, sometimes, you feel limitless. That’s how Abby always felt, anyway. It’s her first time bringing someone to her father’s mountain and she thinks that they might be her North Star, the one to guide her home and keep […]
Voices of BTM XXIV: Ken Green
Tell us a little about your play. …And Then There’s Aaron Burr… is a play about the pandemic, but NOT about the pandemic. Two friends meet after things have eased up a bit, but one person eventually confesses that they’ve managed to find a (personal) silver lining to this whole horrible time. And the whole […]
Plays and playwrights of BTM XXIV
Allie by Grant MacDermott And Then There’s Aaron Burr by Ken Green Ankita & Chandni by Fatima Maan A Place For Us by Leila Teitelman A Quantum Carol by Patrick Gabridge
Mavromatis’s ‘Foul Line’ at NPTC
K. Alexa Mavromatis’s one-act Foul Line is part of New Perspectives Theatre Company’s (NYC) inaugural Meganne George Women’s Work Short Play Festival, through Dec. 11. Happy opening!
Dillen’s ‘Avalanche!’ at Just Say It Theater in Santa Fe
Happy opening to Leslie Harrell Dillen’s Avalanche!, part of a duet of one-acts in Just Say It Theater’s Forces of Nature evening of one-act plays through Dec. 19!
Alums in print*
*Or, The Most Epic Publications Post Ever: Monica Bauer’s Three Men With Guns is included in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2021 from Applause Books and her Vivian’s Music, 1969 is available from Original Works Publishing…
Girard’s ‘Short & Scary’ at Arts After Hours
Happy opening to Deirdre Girard’s Short & Scary, an evening of short horror plays (now through Oct. 30), produced by Arts After Hours in Lynn, MA. (This collection of Deirdre’s shorts was recently published by Next Stage Press.)