Theatre

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” Become members of the University of Cambridge student body as Virginia Woolf joins them for this 1928 lecture. With Elaine Meder-Wilgus as Virginia Woolf by Tempest Productions. Admission Free.

Join avant garde patron Gertrude Stein at her famous 27 rue de Fleurus salon as she hosts local poets Alison Jaenicke, Rachael Lyon, Lisa Mangini, Mary Rohrer-Dann, and Camille Yvette Welsch. With Stephanie Gates as Gertrude Stein by Tempest Productions. Admission Free.

The Next Stage Theatre Company presents Caitlin Osborne and John Austin in this David Ives short.

The 2018 Central PA Theatre & Dance Playwriting Festival awarded 5 shorts Distinguished Status . We’ll be reading and discussing these works throughout the evening.

• Biscuits & Bacon by Sharece M. Sellem
  It’s the Spring of 1929 in Harlem. The streets are filled with lights and glitter and to Daisy, who only wants to find her sister, four very different women show her how to grow in concrete.
• Fluent by Chuck Smith
  A bench in a Chinese railway station. Two low-level managers have been separated from their superiors and neither the man nor the woman speaks the other’s language.
• The Naughty List by Trevor Suthers
  So who’s really responsible for compiling that Naughty list, and where do the funds come from?
• Theories by Jenell Abram
  A bar in a small Pennsylvania city. Present day. What the bartender sees night after night.
• Therapy Dog by Les Abromovitz
  Neurotic Jerome forces his hypochondriacal dog, Achoo, to pose as his emotional support animal, but the canine becomes increasingly uncomfortable with perpetuating this charade.