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TIME TO CELEBRATE WITH NEW RELEASES |
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It’s hard to believe that 2022 is already half over. However, as we make the turn toward the latter half of the year, it’s time to find some new titles for possible future productions. Here is our list of July 1 releases, plus much more. Thank you for your support. We will continue to seek out great new works!
Also, see below about our PODCAST!!!
There will be no new releases in August, so we will talk again in September!!
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Paul and Adam are a gay couple living together happily in Miami. One morning the doorbell rings and in walks Fox, age 15, just off the plane from Santa Fe. He tells them that he is Paul’s son and that he wants to live with them. To share in this staggering news are Paul’s parents Jim and Dorothy, and after an all-day frantic trip from Santa Fe, Fox’s mother, Julie. This life-changing moment touches them all: Paul and Adam, who are discussing marriage; Julie and Fox, who are coming to terms with this boy growing into adulthood, and Jim and Dorothy, who never expected to be grandparents.
- CAST SIZE 4M 2W
- Running Time: 90+ minutes
- Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
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Erica, Alan, Denver, and Trish are the first four people to be born on Mars. They are waiting to find out if they’ve passed “The Test,” which would allow them to go outside for the first time in their lives. To pass the time, they play a game creating scenes that imagine what life on Earth would be like. As control of the game jumps from person to person, questions are raised about the truths and fictions in their own lives on Mars. Before long, it becomes apparent that the outside world isn’t as simple as they’ve imagined.
- Cast Size: 2 M/NB 2 W/NB
- Running Time: 90+ minutes
- Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
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Fiona Blake is a hot young actress who has just made her debut in a big summer horror movie; Stacy Clifford is a male figure skater headed for Olympic glory. They meet late one night at a Hollywood party, strike up a friendly conversation, and end up sneaking out together—but not without catching the attention of the paparazzi. When the gossip columns turn them into a couple, they decide to play along—in order to cover up the fact that, in reality, both of them are gay. As the lie snowballs, it begins to wreak havoc with their careers, their relationships, and every aspect of their lives.
Set amidst the neon-colored pop-cultural obsessions of the late 1990s, Kiss and Cry is a romantic comedy with a sharp satiric edge.
- Cast Size: 3M 3W
- Running Time: 90+ minutes
- Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
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It is 1975 and 100-year-old Nels has been residing in a Minneapolis nursing home for three years, being tended by, and matching wits with young Brad, his by turns loving and sadistic orderly. Brad is every bit as confused about his own future and death as Nels. His fellow orderly Pipe, 19, a Chippewa Native American, tries to reconcile the wreckage of his family and the lessons of his grandfather through caring for Nels and the abuse of peyote. Nels seems indestructible until one day he becomes convinced Brad killed his roommate. Is Nels unraveling or is it really Brad who has gone off the deep end? And will Pipe bring the kind of solace to Nels that has eluded everyone he knows? Meanwhile, the snow keeps falling.
- Cast Size: 4M
- Running Time: 90+ minutes
- Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
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Five years after their breakup, architect Harry Wallace unexpectedly encounters his much-younger ex Jim, who wants him back. Unsettled, Harry reflects on their romance, one that was filled with great affection, great sex, and great classic movies. Harry’s no-nonsense sister Diane was deeply concerned by their significant age difference, while his brother-in-law Ben just wanted him to be happy. When a disturbing revelation imploded their motion picture perfect romance, Harry and Jim were left to pick up the shambles of their suddenly separate lives. Back in the present, Harry must confront the question: what’s stopping them from being together now?
- Cast Size: 5M 2W
- Running Time: 90+ minutes
- Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
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In the alternate London of 1820 during the reign of King Stanley V8, Elinor and Marianne Wood, the illegitimate daughters of Sir Henry Dashwood and his cook, have become Nell Dash and Nance. They find themselves whirling up against Fagin, The Artful Dodger, Miss Havisham, Celia and Polly Peachum, and a barber named Todd, among many others. Their vile half-sister-in-law, Lady Fanny Ferrars Dashwood, stops at nothing to keep them from getting a single penny of the fortunes accrued from the Dashwood Meat Packing Empire whilst at the same time tries to attain the two strands of pearls given the girls when they fled Devonshire years before, pearls which have mysteriously disappeared and have a strange history of their own.
- Cast Size: 4M 4W 1GN
- Running Time: 90+ minutes
- Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
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RED & SCOOTER is a Hollywood story of the meeting of a woman with a dream of stardom and an old timer who’s seen almost all of it and doesn’t care much anymore. RED, who is no longer in her 20’s, has come to Hollywood to escape Wilkes-Barre, Pa. She pays a visit to SCOOTER, a film director with little to do but drink and play with his electric trains. She’s got an audition the next day for a big television show and is desperate for help. SCOOTER thinks she’s cute, so despite his better judgment, he decides to give her a hand. They end up singing, dancing, performing magic, eating Chinese food, and falling in love…if only for a little while. When the night ends, RED goes off for her big chance and SCOOTER returns to his trains. It’s New Year’s Eve: December 31, 1949.
- Cast Size: 1M 1W
- Running Time: 90+ minutes
- Royalty Rate $75 per performance
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ROSIE is a two-act comedy (with a hint of science fiction), that tells the tale of three tough, and tatted, women, who navigate what 1940s society would call ‘character flaws’ in order to interrupt a group of outcast academics, set to unleash an acid rain over the city of Las Vegas. This demonstration of terror, straight from the mind of a mad, muddled Meteorologist, is forced to make an emergency landing at Rosie’s Hangar, where all the ‘book smarts’ in the world can’t conquer girl power! This full-length play has light Russian and Finnish language components.
- Cast Size: 5M 4W plus chorus
- Running Time: 90+ minutes
- Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
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STRAIGHT FROM NEW YORK AND L.A. |
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HELLMAN v. McCARTHY is based on the greatest literary feud in modern American history. On January 24, 1980, Mary McCarthy, famed novelist, critic, and memoirist, appeared on The Dick Cavett Show and declared that “every word [Lillian Hellman] writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the.’” Hellman went ballistic and sued McCarthy, Dick Cavett, Cavett’s production company, and PBS for libel. The lawsuit, which spanned more than four years, was the talk of the literary community. Dick Cavett played himself in the critically acclaimed world premiere at the Abingdon Theatre Company.
- Cast Size: 4M 2W
- Running Time: 90+ minutes
- Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
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Gays is an evening of theater comprised of gay monologues and short plays. The plays require minimal furniture, just some chairs and a small table will do. The same actors can appear in multiple plays and perform multiple monologues.
- Cast Size: Flexible
- Running Time: 90+ minutes
- Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
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A play about the power of poetry, the poetry of power, and the perils of publishing. —And surely the world’s first verse play set in the offices of an in-flight airline magazine.
- Cast Size: 3M 3W
- Running Time: 90+ minutes
- Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
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MEET OUR PLAYWRIGHT JUDY K. TATE
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JUDY TATE is a 25-year member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and is the Producing Artistic Director of The American Slavery Project, a theatrical response to revisionism in our national conversation around enslavement, Jim Crow and the reverberations of those eras and policies today. ASP, supports African descended writers who write about the era, creates conversation in the community, educates and produces original work and makes vital connections between Black beginnings in America and today. ASP was one of the first companies to pivot during the 2020 pandemic to create audio dramas with soundscaping and minimal visual scores. Black Women and the Ballot, about the tiny rebellions Black women have mounted to progress voting rights has been viewed over 5K times. Judy’s productions and/or workshops include Fast Blood (Civic Ensemble, EST, Passage Theatre, Hartford Stage, The Lark, Epic Theatre Ensemble); Slashes of Light, The Kitchen Theatre Company and Civic Ensemble; Sex in the Kitchen (EST Octoberfest, CAP21), In the Parlour about black women suffragettes, Civic Ensemble and The Kitchen Theatre; The Point and Mistaken for Genius (both at The Women’s Project Lab) and more. Theatre awards include: Manhattan Theatre Club playwriting fellowship; the New Professional Theatre Playwriting Award; and the Women in Arts and Media Collaboration Award (honored finalist). Her television writing includes Another World, Days of Our Lives and As the World Turns. She’s won four daytime Emmys and a Writers’ Guild of America award. A professional actor for many years, Judy has worked in theatres throughout the United States and in Southern Africa. As a teaching artist she’s worked with playwriting students in alternative schools, prisons, shelters, from reservations and townships both independently and with MTC, TDF and the International Theatre Project. Judy is the founding artistic director of Manhattan Theatre Club’s company within a company: Stargate Theatre, a work and social readiness theatre program for justice involved young men. It’s her 14 years of work with high school inmates on Rikers Island that inspired her TV pilot, Lockdown High. She is an alumna of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts conservatory program where she studied at Stella Adler and was an honors graduate receiving the Founder's Day Award, Seidman Award and Beinecke Award for excellence in acting and academia.
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SOME PLAYS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED !
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Have You Heard Our Podcast? |
Next Stage Press has its very own podcast where we interview our artists. If you would love to hear about the origins of our plays,make sure you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audacy— or wherever you get your podcasts. Just search NEXT STAGE PRESS PODCAST.
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