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IN THIS ISSUE:
- ALAP/ West Hollywood Gay Play Festival
- ALAP's Long Hot Summer
- Submit Your Play to the Reading Festival!
- NEW WORKS LAB UPDATE
- Robert Patrick DVD Available
- IN MEMORIAM
- PHOTOS!
- NewsFLASHes
All Aboard for the Gay Play Reading Festival!
Thanks to grants from the City of West Hollywood’s Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission and Lesbian and Gay Advisory Board, ALAP will present two programs of play readings as part of the City’s Gay Pride Celebration.
June 18 will feature rehearsed readings of seven short plays:
The Skanky Ho and Her Halfwit Brother by Dan Berkowitz
Flight by Joe Godfrey
Significant Others by Susan C. Hunter
Coffee and Paul by B. V. Marshall
Date’N Switch by Felix Racelis
Moon Dancers by Mary Steelsmith
The Tao of Fruit by Lucy Wang
June 23’s program will be a reading of Brian Raine’s full-length In the Name of the Son. Each program will conclude with a reception.
WHEN & WHERE
Monday, June 18 @ 7:30 PM (short plays)
and
Saturday, June 23 @ 11:00 AM (full-length)
Celebration Theatre
7051 Santa Monica Boulevard (just east of LaBrea)
Street parking
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, NO RESERVATIONS NEEDED! SEATING IS LIMITED, SO ARRIVE EARLY!
... and then get ready for a Hot ALAP Summer!
ALAP’s longest-running program will take place this year in July. In Our Own Voices, which began in 1994, gives members 10-minute slots to read from their work. The reading can be a 10-minute play, or an excerpt from a longer piece, and writers may bring up to 4 actors to help. The two rules are (1) no piece can be longer than 10 minutes, and (2) the playwright must be one of the readers – hence the title In Our Own Voices. Slots are assigned on a first-come first-served basis, so watch for the announcement, and if you’d like to participate, make sure to respond quickly! Only current members are eligible to participate.
August will see ALAP’s Annual Summer Picnic, which will once again take place on a hilltop home with panoramic views of the City – and a pool! The invitation and RSVP form will be sent with the July NewsFlash. The Picnic is open to all – members and non-members alike – and is always a lot of fun.
Submit! Submit! Submit!
The submission period for this year's 14th Annual Reading Festival is now open! The plays chosen will receive rehearsed readings at ALAP's Big Fall Event. The deadline to submit is July 2, and the judges will be reading your work as the Long Hot Summer progresses...
To submit, download the Entry Form, read the rules carefully, and then send in your stuff! You can also download an Entry Form by visiting the website and clicking on the link at the bottom of the right-hand column.
NEW WORKS LAB UPDATE
The Eclectic Company Theatre hosted ALAP’s New Works Lab on Sunday, April 15, at 4:00 PM, with a reading of Jeremy Kehoe’s God Help Us. Congrats, Jeremy, and many thanks to Eclectic!
Watch for the announcement of the play selected for June’s Lab, to be hosted by Alliance Repertory Company. The August Lab will be hosted by Theatre Unleashed. Deadline to submit for the August Lab is June 15.
The purpose of the Lab is to aid in the development of new work, so previously read or produced plays should be submitted only if they have been significantly rewritten. The Labs are not open to the public, but a limited number of ALAP members may attend: send an email to Lab Coordinator Alison Hills at ahills@laplaywrights.org. For submission guidelines and more info, visit the New Works Lab page on the ALAP website.
L-R Co-producer Dean Farell Bruggeman, playwright Jeremy Kehoe, co-producer and director Chelsea Sutton at the April New Works Lab.
"An Evening with Robert Patrick" DVD Available
If you missed March's fabulous evening with Robert Patrick, never fear: it's available on DVD!
ALAP will produce a limited run of DVDs which will be available for $9 apiece (includes tax and postage) if your order is received by May 25.
Make your check payable to "Community Partners fbo ALAP" and send to ALAP, 7510 Sunset Boulevard #1050, LA, CA 90046. It's great!
IN MEMORIAM
Longtime ALAP member Charles Higham died in April. Though primarily known for his best-selling and controversial bios of stars such as Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Howard Hughes (Charles' bio of whom formed the basis for the film The Aviator), he was also a prolific playwright in his later years. He will be missed.
PHOTOS!
Judith Allen, seated at left, hosted the February Salo(o)n at her home.
Robert Patrick, left, had an intense conversation with Dan Berkowitz in March...
... which occasionally erupted into mutual insults...
... and at the end, the crowd surrounded Robert...
... perhaps remembering his display of one of the tacky door prizes.
At the April Cocktail Party, Kerry Feltham (L), Gene Lesser, and Diane Grant welcomed people at the door...
... some of the tasty snacks waiting for the guests...
... who mingled both inside and outside...
... where Ellen Colley enticed Stanton Korey into trying some of the hot hors d'oeuvres.
NewsFLASHes
UPCOMING: THRU MAY 12: Terry McFadden’s 30 Love, Kinneksbond Cultural Centre, Mamer, Luxembourg, 47 08 95-1… THRU MAY 13: Ron House’s Bullshot Crummond and the Invisible Bride of Death, Green Valley Theatre Co, 3823 V St, Sacramento, 888-718-4253… MAY 11-13: Roy Battocchio’s Why Me and The Plot Thickens, Theatre West, 3333 Cahuenga Bl W., LA, 323-851-7977… THRU MAY 20: Evelyn Diaz Cruz’s Glass Cord, Teatro Latea, 107 Suffolk St, NYC, 212-529-6239… MAY 11-27: Dale Griffiths Stamos’s Love Struck, Beverly Hills Playhouse, 254 S. Robertson, BH, 323-960-7787… MAY 28-JUN 2: JM Eisenman’s Family Matters (staged reading), PointBank Theatre, 318 E. Hickory, Denton, TX, 940-383-1356… JUN 1-JUL 8: Alan Stillson’s I Remember Lou, Whitefire, 13500 Ventura Bl, Sherman Oaks, stillsonworks.com… JUN 2-17: Henry Holden et al’s Putting On Your Shorts, Lonny Chapman, 10900 Burbank Bl, NoHo, 818-763-5990…
CONGRATS:To Jan Michael Alejandro, whose Subway Savant was read at Secret Rose in May… Roy Battocchio, whose The Big Splash won Best of the Best in the Secret Rose’s MonoFest… Dan Berkowitz, who won The Nassau Review’s 2012 Writer Award for Flash Fiction… Dean Farell Bruggeman, whose Lagniappe was read in Mar, and who had a monologue in All Over Again in Apr, both at Eclectic Co. Theatre, and The First Bells Ring at 5:01 p.m. was done at Knightsbridge in Apr-May… Ron Burch, whose The Equation was done at Bellarmine U, Entranced was done at Alley Theatre, both in Louisville, and The Glasses was done at High Point U in NC… Peter Colley, whose Stolen Lives was done at Theatre Scarborough, Ontario, in Apr… Noelle Donfeld, whose Ghost-s (lyrics) was read by Katselas Theatre Co. in Mar-Apr… JM Eisenman, whose Family Matters won 1st prize in Method & Madness Playwriting Fest… Tanis Galik, whose The Blind Date was a winner of the Dezart Performs 4th Play Reading Series, and was read in Palm Springs in Apr… Joe Godfrey, whose Cohn Crosses Over was done at Dixon Place in Apr, and Romance Language was read at Emerging Artists Theatre in May, both in NYC… Diane Grant, whose A Dog’s Life was read at Palisades Playwrights Fest in Mar… Henry Holden, whose The Hitman was made into a short film, promo viewable on YouTube… Karen Howes, whose Burning Love was done at College of the Canyons, Valencia, in May… Stephanie Hutchinson, whose Model Home was done by Naugatuck Valley Comm. College, Waterbury, CT in Apr… Marvin Kaplan, whose The Yentas was read at Theatre West in Mar… Jeremy Kehoe, Felix Racelis, and Dale Griffiths Stamos, who all had work done at 3 Roses in Apr… Marc Ketchem, whose Sound of a Stone was read at the Meta Theatre in Feb… Kres Mersky, whose Rope was made into a short film and was an official selection at Newport Beach and SF Indie Film Fests and Best of Shorts at Bend (OR) Film Fest, now viewable on YouTube… David Misch, whose Funny: The Book will be published by Applause on Jun 5, more at funnythebook.com… Jan O’Connor, whose Taken for a Ride aired on Spokane (WA) Radio Theatre, and Angels Flight was done at Looking Glass Theatre, NYC, both in Mar… Linda L. Rand, whose The Fat Lady Ain’t Hummin’ A Tune was in the Secret Rose MonoSlam in Apr… Lisa Soland, whose The Ladder Plays were done at Pellissippi State College, TN in Mar-Apr…
SEND US YOUR NEWS! NewsFlash is for you! If you have news – an opening, a reading, a grant, an assignation! – send it to us at the ALAP address or e-mail to newsflash@LAPlaywrights.org. Deadline for the next issue is June 22.
EMAILS TO REMEMBER
DAN BERKOWITZ (CO-CHAIR)
DanB@LAPlaywrights.org
JONATHAN DORF (CO-CHAIR)
JonD@LAPlaywrights.org
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