Check out the Contemporary Play Readings on Sunday nights @ The State Theatre. For $10 a ticket, this series is sure to be at the top of the list to wrap up the weekend for Penn State students and State College residents.
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Schedule of Contemporary Play Readings
@ The State Theatre
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- When: Sunday, September 29, 2013 @ 7:30 PM
- Title: 4000 Miles by Amy Herzog
- Starring: Helen Manfull
Synopsis: After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21 year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty 91 year-old grandmother Vera in her West Village apartment. Over the course of a single month, these unlikely roommates infuriate, bewilder, and ultimately reach each other. 4000 Miles looks at how two outsiders find their way in today's world.
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- When: Sunday, October 20, 2013 @ 7:30 PM
- Title: Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris*
- Special Note: Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize*
Synopsis: Clybourne Park explodes in two outrageous acts set fifty years apart. Act one takes place in 1959, as nervous community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification.
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- When: Sunday, November 17, 2013 @ 7:30 PM
- Title: Seminar by Teresa Rebeck
Synopsis: Set in present day New York City, Seminar follows four young writers: Kate, Martin, Douglas, and Izzy, and their professor, Leonard. Each student has paid Leonard $5,000 for a ten-week-long writing seminar to be held in Kate's Upper West Side apartment. As tensions arise and romance falls between students, they clash over their writing, their relations, and their futures.
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- When: Sunday, January 26, 2013 @ 7:30 PM
- Title: Speech & Debate by Stephen Karam
Synopsis: Three teenage misfits in Salem, Oregon discover they are linked by a sex scandal that's rocked their town. When one of them sets out to expose the truth, secrets become currency, the stakes get higher, and the trio's connection grows deeper in this searching, fiercely funny dark comedy with music.
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- When: Sunday, February 16, 2013 @ 7:30 PM
- Title: Fat Pig by Neil LaBute
Synopsis: Cow. Slob. Pig. How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love? Tom faces just that question when he falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy woman who happens to be plus-sized- and then some. Neil LaBute's sharply drawn play not only critiques our slavish adherence to Hollywood ideals of beauty but also boldly questions our own ability to change what we dislike about ourselves.
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- When: Sunday, April 27, 2013 @ 7:30 PM
- Title: The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and the Members of the Tectonic Theater Project
Synopsis: In October 1998 a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Moises Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. This play is the result of those interviews.
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Special Note: All plays in this series contain mature
subject matter and adult language. Parents are strongly cautioned to
consider bringing students under the age of 13.
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