Newsletter (May 1, 2025)
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May is Blooming with Women's Work, old and new!
We're delighted to share information about three readings this month that celebrate women's voices in works that investigate eternal challenges, along with a production of short plays helmed by NPTC artistic associate Malini Singh Mc Donald.
Two events are ocurring at New Perspectives Studio; two more take place at other venues. Now, more than ever, it is crucial that we support the diverse voices of women and artists from different backgrounds and cultures, because if not in the Theatre, where else will we hear them?.
Jacob Slovak
by Mercedes de Acosta
directed by Sivan Raz
May 20, 2025; 7:00pm
A small New England town finds itself beholden to a Jewish man. A young woman must make a painful decision. Which wins? Love or Hate?
The ON HER SHOULDERS Reading Series returns with an astonishing play about anti-semitism which was produced on Broadway in 1927! Mercedes de Acosta was an American poet, playwright, and novelist, who is now best known for her many lesbian affairs with celebrated Broadway and Hollywood personalities, most famously Greta Garbo. She did not attempt to hide her sexuality; her uncloseted existence was rare and daring in her generation. This play is equally daring, for its time, and sadly even today.
ADMISSION IS BY DONATION; SEATING IS LIMITED
RESERVE A SPOT HERE
Miss Lydia Bennet by Meg Ledford
May 9th and 10th at 7:00pm @ New Perspectives Studio
An adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, this play reexamines how the youngest sister Lydia’s story is portrayed in the original narrative and explores how a 15-year-old girl navigates the circumstances imposed on her.
Meg was a Spring 2025 intern at NPTC and this is her thesis project for her MFA at Columbia University. RESERVE A SEAT HERE
I Hope This Letter Reaches Míctlān
Friday, May 9 @ 3:30 PM
Friday, May 9 @ 8:00 PM
Saturday, May 10 @ 3:30 PM
Another Columbia MFA Thesis script, this one by Women's Work LAB member Amalia Oliva Rojas(How to Melt ICE) at the Lenfest Center for the Arts, 615 West 129th Street.
Sarai is mourning the loss of her brother, whose soul is deported back to Mictlān, the Aztec underworld. Using her newly found shaman powers, Sarai attempts to transcend to help him, only to realize the journey begins with her. This play explores the complexity of grief and how it changes those who experience it.
Hellish Delights
Affiliated artist Malini Singh McDonald and Theatre Beyond Broadway present 4 short plays by Scott C. Sickles at the Chain Theatre May 2-10. Set in a world where the line between pleasure and peril is razor-thin, the pieces are directed by Jesse Edward Rosbrow.
Tickets are $25 for general admission; $15 for students and senior citizens.
Bulletproof Love: Ambrose and Ramona were gonna get married. But then the murder happened, so…
The Fallow Garden: Glynnis and Marie-France are digging a hole in Lavinia Fowler’s garden. They are not planting vegetables.
O, for a Muse of Fire: Lane used to be a composer in love with Vaughn. Vaughn wants Lane to remember her passions. She does.
Somewhere South of Bethlehem: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, Lucrezia Borgia, and the Devil rehearse a Nativity play in Hell.