Search on line for “Best Plays…” for sites listing and describing plays in a broad range of contexts. (These sites to not link to play scripts.) Some examples are:
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#17: Zoe Akins’ The Old Maid, Thursday. July 28, at Julia’s
Pulitzer Play #16: Sidney Kingsley’s Men in White, Monday, August 15, at the Cotswold IHOP
THREE EVENTS THIS WEEK
Pick One (or two, or three).
ICEBOUND, by Owen Davis, Tuesday evening, at Starbuck’s on Providence (click below)
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED, by Sydney Howard, Wednesday evening, at the home of Joyce Fischer in Matthews
ANNA CHRISTIE, by Eugene O’Neill (continued), Thursday morning at Julia’s
“LOVED tonight’s kickoff for the Cold Reads Pulitzer Play Reading Challenge! The place was humming with enthusiasm, conversation & laughter! Lovely way to end the day.”
So wrote Ealy Lim, one of the twenty-some who were there to read Act One of WHY MARRY?, the first play to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Continue reading COLD READS/CHARLOTTE GETS THE BALL ROLLING
Ask someone you know who teaches drama or English, or an actor, or…
Sign up to moderate a group in your location.
Volunteer or honorarium (or hourly fee)
*Employment opportunity for educated theatre/literary folk
Celebrate Shakespeare’s Birthday, for example, with famous scenes at a local pub, either among yourselves or public—anyone who buys a drink can read.
Attract attention. Read in public and encourage those nearby to join. passers-by to join in. Pick the right play. Continue reading Occasions
Here’s a web site with several hundred plays in the public domain, from ancient Greeks to the Complete Works to originals by people nobody knows.
I’ll update this post as time allows. For now, you’ll find a lot of scripts in the public domain the Gutenberg Project web site. These can be read on line or downloaded—or you can copy the text to an editable document and format it to save ink and paper.
124 random plays in PDF from Aeschylus to John Van Druten under Drama at Fadedpages.com .
Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature (poetry, prose, and drama) by 59 different authors at MIT’s Internet Classics Archives.
249 plays at Read Print (join to download).
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Invite all friends to join the group and ask them to share with friends
Survey pool for likely times, locations
Invite particular member or the group at large
Phrase invitation to indicate likely readers (scholarly discussion, beer, ladies only, etc.
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