Play Reading For Play Lovers:
American Theatre – The Last 100 Years

Do you love language and theatre? Have you ever found it challenging to read rather than see a play? Do you love reading plays but wish it were a more social activity?

Join Artistic Director Marti Lyons and your classmates in an intimate and animated “book club” conversation discussing the writing, contexts, techniques, and theatrical ideas of 10 plays and their playwrights over the second half of our season. Discover the joys of studying plays and theatrical writing in all sorts of new ways!

Play selections can be found below!

Take the full session for $200, or drop in to any session for only $49!

This class will take place online via Zoom – participants must be able to attend the class in real time, as it will not be recorded.

DATES: February 15, March 9, April 13, May 12, June 2

TIME: 2 hours, 6:00-8:00pm 

COST: $200 for the full session, $49 per drop-in class

COURSE SYLLABUS AND DROP-IN REGISTRATION

February 15

Angels in America Part 1 by Tony Kushner
Angels in America Part 2
by Tony Kushner

March 9

Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill
Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks

April 13

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa Fasthorse

May 12

The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
Fefu and Her Friends by Maria Irene Fornes

June 2

Machinal by Sophie Treadwell
The Dance and the Railroad by David Henry Hwang