NEW PLAYS NEW JERSEY Festival to Run 3/2-8

With partial funding from the National New Play Network Collaboration Fund and as part of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance Stages Festival, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey and six other theatres will collaborate on New Plays New Jersey, a week-long celebration of new plays by New Jersey playwrights and the the theatres that support them.

New Plays New Jersey will take place at The Bickford Theatre at the Morris Museum from Monday, March 2 through Sunday, March 8 (no performances on Saturday, March 7) All readings will begin at 7 pm and will include a post-show discussion with the playwright and the director. Admission is free. There are no reservations, seating is first come first served. The Bickford Theatre is located at 6 Normandy Heights Rd., Morristown NJ 07960. Parking is located on the premises free of charge.

An additional reading will be held as part of this series at NJRep in Long Branch, NJ at 7 pm on Monday, March 2. Admission is also free, and a post-show discussion will be held, as well. NJ Rep is located at 179 Broadway, Long Branch 07740. Free public parking is located behind the theatre on Union Ave. and Liberty St.

"New Jersey-based writers and theatres play a large role on the national new play development stage," said John Pietrowski, Artistic Director of Playwrights Theatre, who is coordinating the effort. "New Plays New Jersey is a showcase of these writers and the New Jersey theatres that develop and produce their work. This weeklong series of staged readings in the intimate setting of the Morris Museum will provide a glimpse of the quality and depth of plays that make New Jersey the Garden State of new work."

Theatres participating include Centenary Stage, Luna Stage, New Jersey Repertory Theatre, Passage Theatre, Playwrights Theatre, Premiere Stages, and South Camden Theatre Company. The subject matter of the readings range from a serio-comic take on the improvisations scientists were making to put a man on the moon, to the difficulties encountered in the current economy by older workers and their recently graduated children.The schedule of the readings are as follows:

At the Morris Museum 7 pm

Monday, March 2 The Blue Sky Boys by Deborah Brevoort (Centenary Stage, Hackettstown)

Tuesday, March 3 Blairsburg Family Picnic by Ben Clawson (Luna Stage, West Orange)

Wednesday, March 4 Dissent by James Christy (Passage Theatre, Trenton)

Thursday, March 5 Damage Control by Joe Paprzycki (South Camden Theatre Co.)

Friday, March 6 Walking the Labyrinth by John Wooten (Premiere Stages, Union/Playwrights Theatre)

Saturday, March 7 No readings scheduled.

Sunday, March 8 Coffee at the Hague by Yasmine Rana (Playwrights Theatre, Madison)

At NJRep, Long Branch , 7pm

Monday, March 2 The Franklins of Philadelphia by Michael McGoldrick

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