TBG Reading Series

Curated by TBG Literary Manager Becca Worthington, the TBG Reading Series gives new plays and revivals public readings and workshops in our Studio Theatre.  Actors and directors who have trained with The Barrow Group Acting School are involved in these readings.  All readings are held at 312 West 36th Street, and NO RESERVATIONS are required.

Upcoming Readings

Sunday, March 18,  7 PM     RAGDOLL by George Pate

Jeff is a loving husband and father… whose wife happens to be a life-sized ragdoll. His daughter, Annie, a mentally and emotionally challenged teenager, is half-human, half-doll and comfortable to stay under her father’s care. The son, Andy, is trying to live a normal life in the outside world, despite one arm and leg made of cloth and stuffing. A visceral and challenging piece, RAGDOLL is a lovely and provoking play that confronts faith, family, truth and the conditions that we place on love.

Past 2011-2012 Readings

Sunday 10/16/11 7:00 PM     THE POETRY OF CARS by Jon Span

With his latest design, car czar Azwell Dove might save Detroit from its financial crisis, but can he rescue his daughter Savannah before she descends into madness? When Azwell’s drug addict son Ziggy, a musician, arrives unexpectedly, Azwell must confront his own human frailty before vanquishing the unseen forces destroying his family. In THE POETRY OF CARS the iconography of the American automobile collides with confessional poetry and embraces the transformative powers of each.

Sunday 10/23/11 7:00 PM      4o WEEKS by Sam Zalutsky

Featuring Porter Pickard, Eric Paeper, Tricia Alexandro, Polly Adams, Barbara Spence, Gavin Hammon & Izze Gibson. Directed by Ron Piretti.
Hank and Marshall are quite happy in their Manhattan coexistence with their group of tight-knit friends, but when their best friend Stacia is suddenly abandoned by her married boyfriend, she reveals her desperation to have a child. In a moment of weakness and sympathy, Hank offers to donate his sperm and have a child with her. This decision inevitably causes a rift in his relationship with Marshall, who never wanted children and feels disregarded and replaced. 40 WEEKS is a tender and gentle comedy of relationships and all the chaos that ensues when a ticking biological clock enters the picture.

Saturday 11/5/11 7:00 PM     POINT LAST SEEN by Scott Organ

Featuring Kathryn Alexander, Dusty Brown, DeAnna Lenhart and Paul Urcioli
As two friends and coworkers face potential layoffs at work, both men and their wives begin to reassess their lives. POINT LAST SEEN is a poignant relationship drama by Scott Organ that deals with temptations, trust, paint swatches, fertility sex, downsizing, infidelity and getting lost in the woods.

Sunday 12/4/11 7:00 PM     TOUCH by Drew Larimore

Set in contemporary deep Appalachia, a runaway and his brother believe that they are the kings of the woods in which they have been secretly living. But when a stubborn forest ranger stumbles across the older brother, Rover, one day, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to one another. As he visits her in her eccentric aunt’s cabin and they decide to work together to keep the forest safe from its pending destruction, secrets begin to come out. The loneliness may run deeper than either of them has let on.

Sunday 1/15/12 7:00 PM     REACHING BOHEMIA by Scott McCrea

Four friends have rented a beach house for the week before their graduation from college.  One of them, Aaron Kirillin, is about to go off to war.  When his ex-girlfriend comes to the beach house and goes into the bedroom with a veteran recently returned from Iraq, an evening of male bonding suddenly becomes a contemporary tragedy.  What emerges is a scalding portrait of present-day America and a profound study of the mystery of human character, the limits of love and friendship, and the nature of fate.

Friday 1/27/2012 8:00     PM THE SECRETS OF SACO by Lulu Roche

directed by Alyson Schacherer, with Michael Drayer, Edward McGinty, Kate Neuman, James Andrew O’Connor and Harmony Stempel.

Sunday, February 19, 7pm     FORCE DRIFT by David Epstein

In a city in the Middle East, during a war, a determined young American woman arrives to start a one-person aide-agency, bringing financial assistance to victims of the violence.  She encounters a journalist who falls in love with her, has an affair with an outsourcing contractor until she discovers he is involved with a notorious prison, and hires a local guide/translator whose subsequent serious injuries she feels responsible for, and by whom she is finally betrayed.

2010-11 Reading Series

MIGRATIONS by Cassandra Lewis
9/12 by David L. Meth
HOGTIED by David Thigpen
FULL PLATE COLLECTION by Irene Ziegler
MUNDO OVERLOADUS by Michael Lederer
STILL BORN by Ross Tedford Kendall
IMMORTAL CITY by Terry Selucky