Opening this weekend: How to Survive Being Human by Lee Nowell – TWO WEEKENDS ONLY!
Running Nov 13th-15th and Nov 20th-22nd at The Big House on Ponce (368 Ponce De Leon Ave NE Atlanta, GA 30308), How to Survive Being Human”
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40 Days of Essential Playwrights: 39 – Letitia Sweitzer
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2008 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award Winner:
Letitia Sweitzer!
The 2008 Playwriting Award Winner was Letitia Sweitzer, with WEST OF EDEN. This play grew from a one-act (which won the 2005 Georgia Theatre Conference’s One-Act Competition) to the full-length work produced by Essential.
40 Days of Essential Playwrights kicks off TODAY with Topher Payne!
Today, to spice up the final 40 days of our fall power2give campaign, we’re kicking off a new series of Facebook and website posts:
“40 Days of Essential Playwrights”
FINAL WEEK!
HAPPENING NOW: Our fall power2give fundraising campaign!
Help give Georgia playwrights a voice by donating today! Every donation is matched dollar-for-dollar by funds from the City of Atlanta, so your gift goes twice as far!
Working Title Playwrights interviews Essential’s own Peter Hardy!
Click here to read the full interview!
The 16th Annual Essential Theatre Festival is now CLOSED!
“The Projects Project” Premieres at first annual Atlanta Artists’ Lab
by Parker Hilley
We at Essential Theatre would like to congratulate Ellen McQueen on her piece that recently won the first annual Atlanta Artists’ Lab put on by the Alliance Theatre!
Meet the Playwright: Bill Gibson
A caustic comedy about the corporatization of religion, Christ America rounds out this summer’s Bare Essentials Reading Series this Tuesday night. Penned by Bill Gibson of Alpharetta, GA.
Meet the Playwright: Gerardo Bartholomai
Gerry Bartholomai, of Chamblee, GA, is the author of tonight’s Bare Essentials offering, Miss Adelia’s Garden. Miss Adelia’s Garden is a poignant drama about the friendship between a young gay man and two elderly southern women.
