THE KARPOVSKY VARIATIONS at Jewish Plays OPEN Residency

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The Karpovsky Variations has been selected for OPEN:  The Festival of New Jewish Theatre at the 14th Street Y.  A workshop of the play will culminate in a reading on June 13th at 7 pm.

Directed by Tamilla Woodard, the cast includes Geoffrey Cantor, Michael Countryman, Kathryn Kates, Christine Toy Johnson, Danielle Slavick and Joe Urla.  Margot Leverett of the Klezmer Mountain Boys will play clarinet.

“But nowhere is the new Jewish family more strikingly drawn than in Adam Kraar’s “The Karpovsky Variations,” in which disparate family members meet up in airport lounges over the years as one or another flies off to some distant place.” – The Jewish Forward

For more information:  Jewishplaysproject.org

 

Dream of a Deer at Dusk reading at New York Theatre Workshop

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On May 10th at 3 pm, New York Theatre Workshop presents a workshop reading of DREAM OF A DEER AT DUSK, directed by Tamilla Woodard.  The reading will be at 83 East 4th Street, 3rd floor.

Previously developed at The Playwrights’ Center and Boomerang Theatre Company, the play is a lyrical drama focusing on an idealistic 15-year-old girl trying to rescue a 27-year-old autistic man from the persecution of their small town.

The cast includes:  Denny Bess, Molly Camp, Doug Harris and Vayu O’Donnell.