Lynn University announces 2014-2015
Series of Jan McArt’s New Play Readings
Series Runs from November until April inside the
Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
BOCA RATON, Fla., August 8, 2014 – Lynn University and Producer Jan McArt, director of theatre arts program development, are announcing the upcoming series of Jan McArt’s New Play Readings. Under the leadership and guidance of McArt, this program develops new plays by highly acclaimed playwrights through staged readings.
November 3
East Hampton, Last Summer
- 7:30 p.m.
- Starring Jan McArt
- Directed by Wayne Rudisill.
A retired opera star and her playwright companion spend the summer of 1960 in the Long Island resort town of East Hampton, where they soon find themselves competing with the local upper-middle classes in an atmosphere of extreme snobbery.
Note: Tony Finstrom is an award-winning playwright whose works have been included in Jan McArt’s New Play Reading Series for the past three years. He regularly contributes to Naked Stage’s 24-Hour Theatre Project and to Shorts Gone Wild produced by City Theatre and Island City Stage. He is chairman and co-founder of South Florida’s Silver Palm Theater Awards and is a South Florida Carbonell Theatre award judge.
Location: Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
Tickets: Tickets are $10 each or $30 for a series subscription
January 12, 2015
Daniel’s Husband
- 7:30 p.m.
- Directed by Andy Rogow.
A contemporary gay couple faces and accepts its limitations as defined by society.
Note: Several plays by Michael McKeever have been produced at Florida Stage and the Caldwell Theatre Company. He is the recipient of five Carbonell Awards, two Silver Palm Awards and three Florida Individual Artist Fellowships. He also is an award-winning actor and designer, and a founding member of Miami’s Zoetic Stage theatre company.
Location: Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
Tickets: Tickets are $10 each or $30 for a series subscription
March 9, 2015
Our Time
- 7:30 p.m.
- Directed by Wayne Rudisill
Three women in their 50s decide they have to make changes in their lives to become “unstuck.” So they spend a weekend in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where each has an experience that teaches her how to make the transformation.
Note: Dan Clancy’s The Timekeepers (2014 Best Play Carbonell Award, Island City Stage) has played in New York and 14 countries. His other plays include Volunteer Man (Obie Award), Two Sisters (Joseph Kesslering Playwriting Award), The First Time, 108 Waverly, The Perfect Day, and Proposition 8, read at Lynn University in 2013 and produced in Palm Springs in 2014 as the retitled Poster Boys.
Original musicals by Lynn Portas written with Mr. Clancy include 108 Waverly, The First Time and two children’s musicals: Penelope the Tooth Fairy and A Boy and His Dog. She has written/performed several children’s albums and is teaching at St. Joseph’s College in New York. She also is a member of the nationally acclaimed BMI Lehman Engle Musical Theatre Workshop and the ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop.
Location: Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
Tickets: Tickets are $10 each or $30 for a series subscription
April 20, 2015
Mira
- 7:30 p.m.
- Directed by John Manzelli
This is the story of a mirror that comes to life because she yearns to be seen.
Note: Michael Leeds wrote and directed Broadway’s Swinging On a Star (Tony nomination, Best Musical). His regional and international credits are extensive, and include off-Broadway work Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah – Songs of Allan Sherman (Drama Desk nomination, Best Director/Best Choreographer). He is currently Island City Stage’s associate artistic director, where he won the 2014 Carbonell Award as Best Director for the production of Dan Clancy’s The Timekeepers.
Location: Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
Tickets: Tickets are $10 each or $30 for a series subscription
How to Purchase Tickets:
Tickets are $10 each or $30 for a series subscription and may be purchased online at events.lynn.edu or by phone at 561.237.9000.
About Lynn University:
Lynn University is an independent, innovative college based in Boca Raton, Florida. With more than 2,000 students from 90 countries and nearly all 50 states, the school is consistently ranked among the top five most international schools by U.S. News and World Report’s Best Colleges. Lynn’s NCAA Division II Fighting Knights have won 22 national titles, its Conservatory of Music features a world-renowned faculty of performers, and its nationally recognized Institute for Achievement and Learning empowers students with learning differences to become independent learners. The school’s Dialogues of Learning curriculum, award-winning iPad program and international student base help Lynn graduates gain the intellectual flexibility and global experience to fulfill their potential in an ever-changing world. For more information, visit: www.lynn.edu.
About the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center at Lynn University:
The 750-seat Wold Performing Arts Center, located on Lynn’s campus in the heart of Boca Raton, is easily accessible by both I-95 and the Florida Turnpike. The Wold Center features superb acoustics, a modern lighting system, a large, light-filled lobby, and flexible space well-suited for dramatic productions, concerts and other cultural events. With an elegant salon, outdoor sunset terrace and intimate black-box studio, this new center is home to numerous concerts and events, including professional theatrical performances by the theatre arts program’s Libby Dodson’s Live at Lynn Theatre Series, the Live at Lynn American Songbook Series, and Jan McArt’s New Play Reading Series, as well as performances from the Lynn University Conservatory of Music and the drama department in the College of International Communication. For more information, visit: events.lynn.edu.
Jan McArt’s New Play Reading Series Contact:
Gary Schweikhart, PR-BS, Inc. 561-756-4298 gary@pr-bs.net
Lynn University Contact:
Stephanie Terrell 561-212-5133 sterrell@lynn.edu