http://www.adamkraar.com Playwright Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:46:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My play THE KARPOVSKY VARIATIONS will have a reading at The New Group on February 13 at 7 pm. 410 West 42nd Street, 4th floor http://www.adamkraar.com/wordpress/the-karpovsky-variations-reading-at-the-new-group.html GORGEOUS INTENTIONS will be given a reading at Boomerang Theatre Company on November 20 at 3:00 pm.  The reading will be presented at ART/NY, 520 Eighth Avenue, 3rd floor in Manhattan. GORGEOUS INTENTIONS is a serious comedy set at an art colony belonging to Anne Goldfarb, a philanthropist who ... http://www.adamkraar.com/wordpress/gorgeous-intentions-reading-at-boomerang-theatre-co-on-nov-20th.html My play The Jewish Doll will be read as part of an evening of ten-minute plays at Bristol Riverside Theatre on June 12 at 7 PM. Theatre Ariel selected this bill of short plays around the theme of A Stranger in Our Midst. http://www.adamkraar.com/wordpress/bristol-riverside-theatre-ariel-reading-of-the-jewish-doll.html On May 6 at 3 PM THE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER will present a reading of my play THE KARPOVSKY VARIATIONS. The reading, directed by Hayley Finn, is the culmination of a Core Member Workshop.  For more information, please click here. http://www.adamkraar.com/wordpress/workshop-of-the-karpovsky-variations-at-the-playwrights-center.html One of six playwrights participating in the Lark's Winter Writers' Retreat, Feb. 23 - March 2, 2011, where I'll be developing my new play The Karpovsky Variations. http://www.adamkraar.com/wordpress/selected-for-lark-play-development-centers-2011-winter-writers-retreat.html WILD TERRAIN will have a reading at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on March 16th at 7PM, featuring Catherine Curtin, Jack Davidson and Marcia Jean Kurtz (who originated their roles in the recent premiere at EST's Marathon of One-Act Plays).  The reading will be followed by a discussion ... http://www.adamkraar.com/wordpress/wild-terrain-reading-at-ny-society-for-ethical-culture-on-march-16.html SISTERS, a short play I co-authored with two of my theatre students at the NY Institute of Technology, has just been published in Applause Books' BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS 2008-2009.  Sisters, set on a subway car in New York, takes place on the day two sisters from South Asia are forced ... http://www.adamkraar.com/wordpress/sisters-published-in-best-american-short-plays-2008-09-reading-on-nov-29th-at-nuyorican-poets-cafe.html Empire of the Trees, produced in 2010 by Wizard Oil Productions, is one of six nominees for Outstanding Full-Length Script by the New York Innovative Theatre Awards. http://www.adamkraar.com/wordpress/empire-of-the-trees-nominated-for-outstanding-new-script-ny-innovative-theatre-awards.html The Playwrights' Center will welcome six playwrights into its Core Writer program in the 2010-11 season: Andy Bragen, Christina Ham, Adam Kraar, Mona Mansour, Mat Smart, and renewing Core Writer Victoria Stewart. The Core Writers, a group of 20 to 30 playwrights appointed for renewable three-year terms, have access to the ... http://www.adamkraar.com/wordpress/selected-for-core-membership-at-the-playwrights-center.html "Nicely conceived." -- The New York Times "Adam Kraar's "Wild Terrain" presents Henry and Marion, an elderly couple facing their fear of death during a visit to an outdoor sculpture exhibit. ...Kraar and his talented cast make us feel the lonely terror of vanishing into the fog of age."  -- Backstage Directed ... http://www.adamkraar.com/wordpress/wild-terrain-selected-for-est-marathon-of-one-act-plays.html