Ashland New Plays Festival

Recommended by Ashland New Plays Festival

  • SCREENWRITER is a two-hander tour de force of great writing and deft character development that plunges us into the heart of Hollywood, where its peculiar brand of creative accomplishment and ennui eventually undoes even the brashest of the power brokers. Two very outstanding and thoroughly experienced actors, Douglas Rowe and Denis Arndt, performed this percussive dialogue for play4keeps.org and they absolutely crushed it. Jim Shankman writes like one who knows the soft underbelly of LaLaLand, where too much is never enough, and finds a place of empathy, maybe even forgiveness, for its...

    SCREENWRITER is a two-hander tour de force of great writing and deft character development that plunges us into the heart of Hollywood, where its peculiar brand of creative accomplishment and ennui eventually undoes even the brashest of the power brokers. Two very outstanding and thoroughly experienced actors, Douglas Rowe and Denis Arndt, performed this percussive dialogue for play4keeps.org and they absolutely crushed it. Jim Shankman writes like one who knows the soft underbelly of LaLaLand, where too much is never enough, and finds a place of empathy, maybe even forgiveness, for its tortured souls.

  • Donna Hoke is always surprising, her characters disarming, her themes intricately explored. We recorded BWOA at play4keeps.org with Anthony Heald, Stefani Potter, and Román Zaragoza and the play just smokes! It was a very deft, in-your-face look at the way priorities shape the relationships we build and the choices we own. The conclusion may rattle you a bit, but it won't leave you doubting who's really in charge.

    Donna Hoke is always surprising, her characters disarming, her themes intricately explored. We recorded BWOA at play4keeps.org with Anthony Heald, Stefani Potter, and Román Zaragoza and the play just smokes! It was a very deft, in-your-face look at the way priorities shape the relationships we build and the choices we own. The conclusion may rattle you a bit, but it won't leave you doubting who's really in charge.