Article by Chloe Rabinowitz for Broadway World 8/19/2025 The People’s Theatre has seleced three exceptional playwrights for its 2025 Playwrights Unit: Rudy Bamenga, Alyssa Haddad-Chin, and Victoria Lino. Now in its second year since the program’s relaunch, the Playwrights Unit continues to provide a platform for emerging and mid-career writers to develop new full-length...
NEWS & REVIEWS: ALABASTER Written by Audrey Cefaly at the Town Hall Theatre, San Francisco
Article by Lily Janiak for the San Francisco Chronicle 8/23/2025 “Alabaster” isn’t stereotypical community theater fare, starting with the fact that it’s written by a living female playwright, Audrey Cefaly, who isn’t a household name. In “Alabaster,” a connection doesn’t have to be happily ever after to be life-giving, and we don’t have to...
PREVIEW: JELLY’S LAST JAM Directed by Tyrone L. Robinson
Tyrone L. Robinson will be directing JELLY’S LAST JAM in Spring ’26. In anticipation, last week, he directed a reading with an amazing cast of actors in Jelly’s Last Jam at Bristol Riverside Theatre in Pennsylvania. See the preview below....
WATCH LIVE STREAMING: THE MISS ROSE SHOW by Kenneth Pretininzi and Christopher Winslow
THE 2025 PLAYGROUND FREE-PLAY FESTIVALLive Streaming ! Free ! Don’t Miss Out ! THE MISS ROSE SHOW a new musical by Kenneth Pretininzi & Christopher Winslowstarring Matt Hammons, Judy Steele and Don Seaver We are live streaming from San Francisco ! CALIFORNIA TIME: Sat, Aug 2, 8PM; Mon, Aug 4, 8PM; Sat, Aug 9,...
NEWS & REVIEWS: HOW MY GRANDPARENTS FELL IN LOVE By Playwright Cary Gitter and Composer Neil Berg
In 1933, Charlie, a Polish-born Jew who emigrated to America a decade earlier, returns to his hometown of Rovno in search of a bride. There Charlie meets Chava, who works at a hat shop and hopes to become a scholar. However, Chava’s ambitions for the future and the growing clouds of European anti-Semitism and...