Deah Bart's FINAL JUDGEMENT 3/13 (NYC)

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FINAL JUDGMENT

A TWO ACT BLACK COMEDY FARCE

BY

DEAH BART

DIRECTED BY KLEHOTAS TSHYRE

SAT. MARCH 13, 2010 130P.M.

COUNTEE CULLEN BRANCH NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AUDITORIUM

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AAPEX lists over 200 Playwrights!

Elizabeth Andrews Zitelli and Lenard Starks become AAPEX's 199th and 200th listed playwrights! Who would have thought that when this blog was created three years ago 200 playwrights of African American heritage or playwrights with plays centering on African Americans today and yesterday were laboring away on their stories and getting produced? Zitelli and Starks, who co-wrote Sing and Never Tire, are very symbolic of the AAPEX roster since one is white, the other black; one is female, the other male. Of those 200 playwrights, over 160 (we added another today) have Internet links-- something we make an effort to provide to make it easier for our playwrights to be found, read, their plays bought and, hopefully, produced. If you are an African American playwright or a playwright with at least one play focusing on African Americans and are not listed, please contact us here. We will be happy to include you on our roster at no charge.

Je'Caryous Johnson's CHEAPER TO KEEP HER opens 3/14 (Charlotte)

Je'Caryous Johnson's hot romantic comedy "Cheaper To Keep Her" starring Brian McKnight and Vivica A. Fox opens in Charlotte March 14. Click the post's title to see its other dates in Washington, DC, Houston, and Dallas-- and to purchase tickets!

Danny Mullen's A TUFF SHUFFLE Now thru 4/4 (Brooklyn)

A Tuff Shuffle
Backstage with Louis Armstrong

Now thru April 4, 2010
Written and Performed by Danny Mullen
Directed by Marjorie Moon

“It is a fascinating tale of the musical genius who influenced a generation and did more for America than just give us great music." —Ambush Magazine

"Wonderful job."
—Phoebe Jacobs,
Louis Armstrong Foundation, New York City

"Best One Person Show"
"Best Original Show"
Perry Tannenbaum Creative Loafing's
16th Annual Charlotte Theater Award Nomination

"A Tuff Shuffle: Backstage with Louis Armstrong is an outstanding new play that has taken this nation by storm. This is a "must see" play and is highly recommended."
—Frank Gist, The Criterion

"Exposing the historical, more accurate account of the life of "Satchmo," the musical genius."
—Jim Singleton, The Council, City of New Orleans

Take a journey back in time to discover the personal life of an exceptional, legendary jazz artist who rose to fame from abject poverty, racial struggles, jealousy and heartbreak.

DYNAMIC, ENGAGING AND ENLIGHTENING THEATRE
FOR PRE-TEENS AND UP

Seniors 65 and over and children 15 and younger
pay $12.00 at any show

Please click the post's title to visit the Billie Holiday Theatre website
and to purchase tickets.

Zitelli and Starks' SING AND NEVER TIRE 3/12-14 (DC)

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Michael Bobbit's BINGO LONG at Howard U 3/10-13 (DC)

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TONIGHT: Blackboard Reading Series (NYC)

7:30pm

Have a few pages you want to hear read.... something new you've been wondering about? Need another ear to hear your work?

Playwrights - bring your pages (up to 10)

Actors - bring yourselves!

RSVP and send your scripts to: blackboardreadingseries@gmail.com

See you TONIGHT!

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Call for GAY MALE JAMAICAN ACTOR

Looking to cast a gay, male Jamaican actor age range 20-21 years old for one shot concert reading in New York City in early April. Transportation stipend provided. Please send resume/head shot and contact info to:
owajr@yahoo.com

Geoffrey Fletcher wins 2010 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay (Precious)

Congratulations!
Geoffrey Fletcher
2010 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay
(Precious)

GETTING ON OPRAH

I think I'm starting to gestate a play.

I haven't wanted to write a play in 30 years, so I may have to give in to my repressed play writing gene.

The title of this play is GETTING ON OPRAH and has to be about this character who has some kind of bizarre obsession with getting on the Oprah show. I think it should be an absurdest satire of some kind of bizarre Tyler Perry reactionary world with infusions of Ionesco. The mortal screech for recognition which is in all of us.

Why do I want to write this play? Because I think I should have been on Oprah by now for SOMETHING - like some 25 new AAPEX play readings and projects of new works by "Black Playwrights."

And if I could get on Oprah, maybe I could bring some other people to Oprah's attention who could get on Oprah too.

Honestly, I would rather be on Oprah than on Broadway.

And you know what - I'd like to see YOU on Oprah.

But it doesn't look like I'm going to get on Oprah, which irks me, and when I get irked, I always write a play.

And in that play -WE'RE ALL GONNA BE ON OPRAH!

Such is the power of the playwright.

Jaz