Towne Street Theatre's 6th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival to Kick Off 20th Season, Today

Towne Street Theatre's 6th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival will present ten unique plays, honoring Black History Month and celebrating TST's 20th Anniversary Season.

The theme of this year's festival is "The Black Experience - Past, Present, & Future," and the ten plays selected were chosen from over 150 nationwide submissions, from a diverse group of playwrights who range in age, ethnicity, and gender. The acting ensemble is comprised of thirty actors, performing in both comedies and dramas that explore race, relationships, family, sexuality, and the history of blacks in America.

Towne Street Theatre's 6th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival will open on Friday, February 1, 2013 and continue through Sunday, February 17, 2013. There will be one half-priced preview on Thursday, January 31, 2013. All performances are at the Stella Adler Theatre, 6773 Hollywood Boulevard, (corner of Hollywood & Highland), in Los Angeles, Calif. Show times are 8:00 PM on Thursdays, Fridays, & Saturdays, and 3:00 PM on Sundays. General seating is $15.00, with discounts for seniors and groups of ten or more. To purchase tickets for the festival, visit www.townestreet.org.

For more information about Towne Street's 6th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival email info@townestreet.org or call (213) 712-6944.

Towne Street Theatre's Mission - Founded in the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles riots with the belief that we could affect social change through our art, the Towne Street Theatre's mission is creating, developing and producing original work that is reflective of the African-American experience and perspective for theater and film.