The 16th annual Summer Playwrights Festival is now one of the largest staged reading festivals in the nation, with playwrights from across the country and around the world participating. Each reading is followed by a talk-back with the playwright and director. All play readings will be held at the Road Theatre’s Magnolia Theatre at the NoHo Senior Arts Colony.

Schedule of Events:

12:00 PM: Prayer Circle by Erik Gernand
Directed by Taylor Nichols

A dark comedy about a prayer group at a small country church that discovers they have the power to kill through their prayers.

4:00 PM: Eclipsed: The Sun, The Moon, and Gladys Atkinson Sweet by D.L. Patrick
Directed by Danna Hyams

Prayer, hope and Clarence Darrow. Was it enough to save Gladys Sweet? Charged with first-degree murder in 1925 following a mob attack on her Detroit home that left one man dead, the 24-year-old wife and mother, an educated black woman, emerges from the shadows of her time determined to be seen and heard.

8:00 PM: The Springvale Armadillo by Donald Loftus
Directed by Bruce Katzman

A false diagnosis forced seventeen-year-old Ruby into isolation seventy years ago. She was stripped of her identity and endured seven decades in a forgotten world. Now, in 1987, a grieving journalist arrives, seeking a story of survival, hoping Ruby’s past may hold the answers he desperately needs.

Ticket Prices:

Buy a festival pass for only $75.00 to experience 23 shows! Individual play tickets are suggested donation of $15. No donation is too small, but if you can’t afford to donate at this time we understand. Please come anyways and enjoy some live play readings!

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