Exploring the Literature
of Theatre

Authors Theatre was created to bring dramaturgy and audience response into the creative process. Featuring staged readings of original plays-in-progress or adaptations of work from other genres, Authors Theatre is designed to focus on dramatic writing as literary text and to provide a mechanism to assist playwrights in the creation of new work.

Discussions following the readings allow the audience to interact with the playwright, actors, and director to respond to the work. This allows the playwright to receive valuable feedback on the work for the purpose of revision. In addition to assisting the playwright these discussion sessions also offer the audience a rare glimpse into the creative process as well as an opportunity to contribute to the formation of a work of art.

Authors Theatre two-way conversation transforms to private nature of reading and writing into a more public creative act.

THE CENTER FOR THE LITERARY ARTS IN NEW YORK STATE

Authors Theatre

AUTHORS THEATRE EVENTS

PREVIOUS STAGE READINGS

• Staged Reading of playwright Kathryn Walat's Southern Haunt: April 2, 2018
  
  
• Staged Reading of playwright Denis Johnson: November 12, 2012
  
  
• Staged Reading of playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis: April 12, 2010
  
  
• Staged Reading of Women Playwrights of the Early 20th Century: March 11, 2010
  
  
• Staged Reading of Dava Sobel's And The Sun Stood Still: April 14, 2008
  
  
• Staged Readings of Single Black Female and Underground by Lisa Thompson: February 5, 2007
  
  
• Threeways of looking at The Moor by Russell Banks: October 10, 2006
  
  
• Staged reading of Blind Date by Horton Foote: May 1, 2006
  
  
• Staged reading of Mohawk by Richard Russo: March 9, 2004
  
  
• Staged reading of The Doctor Stories by Richard Selzer: February 3. 2004
  
  
• Sally by Sandra Seaton, performed by Zabryna Guevera: February 4, 2003
  
  
• All Hallowed, by Bill C. Davis: January 31, 2002
  
  
• An evening with Anna Manahan: February 8, 1999
  
  
• Oscar Wilde: Confounding the Critics and Surviving the Scandal: February 10, 1999
  
  
• Side Man, by Warren Leight : January 26, 1998
  
  
• Reading and demonstration by Mary Gallagher: February 2, 1998
  
  
• The Talk, by Frank Pugliese: February 9, 1998
  
  
• A Question of Mercy, by David Rabe, Adapted from the essay by Dr. Richard Selzer: February 12, 1998
  
  
• The Last Man in Europe: George Orwell in His Own Words by Mark Weston: January 27, 1997
  
  
• Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher: February 8, 1997
  
  
• Miserere, by Robert Stone: February 15, 1997
  
  
• A staged reading of Shopping Cart Soldiers, by John Mulligan: December 3, 1997
  
  
• Grand View by William Kennedy: January 13, 1996
  
  
• The Black Swan by Richard Selzer: January 27, 1996
  
  
• Irene Worth's Portrait of Edith Wharton by actress Irene Worth: February 2, 1996

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