Nora's Playhouse

ASHES & INK, a play in two acts by Martha Pichey--STUDENT PERFORMANCE
2022-09-28 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | The Sanctuary, 432 Goldthwaite Street, Montgomery, AL, 36104, United States
Are you looking for a meaningful language experience for your class? Something to spark discussions and something to write about? Book your seats today for the world-premiere production of
ASHES & INK, a play in two acts
by Martha Pichey
Directed by Caroline Reddick Lawson
A stirring story about grief, addiction, and a mother’s love.
Molly’s son is a talented actor who is preparing for an audition to a prestigious drama school. He is also a recovering addict. Can he beat his addiction and get into drama school at the same time? And can Molly’s relationships survive his anger?
Student performance reservations include an enrichment packet that will provide materials to prepare your students for the performance.
Please be aware that the play contains adult language and subject matter.
Seats for this FREE student performance will be assigned on a first come, first served basis. Reservations are required.
Send your reservation for ASHES & INK to reservations@norasplayhouse.org. Please include the number of student tickets needed as well as the number of adult chaperone tickets needed.
For more information contact Lil Martin at (334) 868-9933.
Made possible in part by a grant from Alabama State Council on the Arts.

ASHES & INK, a play in two acts by Martha Pichey
2022-09-25 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | The Sanctuary, 432 Goldthwaite Street, Montgomery, AL, 36104, United States
ASHES & INK, a play in two acts
by Martha Pichey
Directed by Caroline Reddick Lawson
A stirring story about grief, addiction, and a mother’s love.
Molly’s son is a talented actor who is preparing for an audition to a prestigious drama school. He is also a recovering addict. Can he beat his addiction and get into drama school at the same time? And can Molly’s relationships survive his anger?
There will be a post-show discussion with Playwright and Director after this matinee performance.
Tickets available now at Ticketstripe.
Box office will open at 6pm on evenings and 1pm for matinees.
A limited number of tickets will be available at the door. (No Cash. Checks and Venmo only.)
Made possible in part by a grant from Alabama State Council on the Arts.

ASHES & INK, a play in two acts by Martha Pichey
2022-09-24 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | The Sanctuary, 432 Goldthwaite Street, Montgomery, AL, 36104, United States
ASHES & INK, a play in two acts
by Martha Pichey
Directed by Caroline Reddick Lawson
A stirring story about grief, addiction, and a mother’s love.
Molly’s son is a talented actor who is preparing for an audition to a prestigious drama school. He is also a recovering addict. Can he beat his addiction and get into drama school at the same time? And can Molly’s relationships survive his anger?
Tickets available now at Ticketstripe.
Box office will open at 6pm on evenings and 1pm for matinees.
A limited number of tickets will be available at the door. (No Cash. Checks and Venmo only.)
Made possible in part by a grant from Alabama State Council on the Arts.

ASHES & INK, a play in two acts by Martha Pichey--OPENING NIGHT PERFORMANCE
2022-09-23 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | The Sanctuary, 432 Goldthwaite Street, Montgomery, AL, 36104, United States

ASHES & INK, a play in two acts by Martha Pichey--PREVIEW PERFORMANCE
2022-09-22 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | The Sanctuary, 432 Goldthwaite Street, Montgomery, AL, 36104, United States

"Ashes & Ink" Open Call Auditions
2022-06-29 18:30 (America/Chicago) | St. John’s Episcopal Church, 113 Madison Avenue, Montgomery, AL, 36104, United States
Open Call Auditions for Nora’s Playhouse world-premiere production of Ashes & Ink by Martha Pichey will take place Wednesday, June 29 at 6:30pm at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 113 Madison Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama. Callbacks will be the evening of Thursday, June 30. We encourage actors of ALL ethnicities to audition!
All the details are below…

About the Project: Ashes & Ink is a stirring story about grief, addiction, and a mother’s love. This is a paid, non-Equity production. There is adult subject matter and profanity in the script.
Roles to be Cast:
QUINN: 20, Molly’s son, passionate and charismatic, insecure
LEO: A widower, late 40s, attentive and thoughtful, honest
FELIX: Leo’s son, 7, spirited and curious, watchful
BREE: Molly’s sister, 40, level-headed and driven, blind since age of 7
*The role of MOLLY (a widow in her 40s) has already been cast
What to Bring with you to the Audition: A prepared monologue is not necessary. Auditions will be cold readings of sides from Ashes & Ink, as well as group scene work with the director, Caroline Reddick Lawson (Artistic Director of Nora’s Playhouse). Please bring a headshot. (If you don’t have a headshot, we will accept a photo cropped to clearly show your face, or we will take a snapshot of you at the audition.)
Rehearsal/Performance Schedules and Locations: Rehearsals will be scheduled on nights and weekends, August 17 – September 21, in the Cloverdale area (exact location TBD). Performances will be September 22 – October 2 at The Sanctuary (432 Goldthwaite St., Montgomery, AL).
Rate: $600 flat
Need more info? If you are interested in auditioning and would like more information, please contact Caroline Reddick Lawson at 646-246-2490 or caroline.lawson@norasplayhouse.org.

Hot Pink Party!
2022-05-21 18:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Mission House, 461 South Court Street, Montgomery, AL, 36104, United States
The women of Nora’s Playhouse invite you to attend our HOT PINK PARTY featuring Food, Fun, and Cocktails, plus a Silent Auction!

Put on your best ‘haute’ pink, black, or white couture and join us on

SATURDAY, MAY 21, 2022 from 6:30-9:00PM
at THE MISSION HOUSE
(461 S. Court Street, Montgomery, AL)

Support Nora’s Playhouse in Montgomery!
Support Women Theatre Artists!

TICKETS: $80.00

Costumes encouraged!

Nora’s Playhouse is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Every contribution is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Barlow Reading: Leah Barsanti's "The Almost Emperor of the Unofficial Deestrick of Lake Michigan"
2020-10-26 19:00 - 2020-10-28 21:30 (America/New_York) | Episcopal Actors’ Guild, 1 East 29th St., 2nd Floor, Guild Hall, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Nora’s Playhouse and our fellow women-in-theatre-focused nonprofit History Matters/Back to the Future are proud to present a staged reading of Leah Barsanti’s Judith Barlow Award-winning play:
The Almost Emperor of the Unofficial Deestrick of Lake Michigan
It is the 1920s in Chicago, and The District of Lake Michigan is thriving. Led by Cap and Ma Streeter, the lakefront plot of land that houses the District is occupied by a ragtag group of Chicagoans living outside the law. They have been allowed to live there, pretty much undisturbed, for decades, but now they are in the way of millionaire Potter Palmer’s master plan to expand his holdings onto Lake Shore Drive. Not one to do his own dirty work, Palmer sends puppets (Sargeant O’Malley and N.A. Warpbank) to remove Streeter and his followers from the land once and for all.
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Leah Barsanti, winner of the 2020 Judith Barlow Prize
The Judith Barlow Prize is awarded by History Matters/Back to the The Future annually to a student playwright for an exceptional one-act play inspired by the work of an historic female playwright. The student winner of the prize receives a $2,500 award and a reading of their work in New York City, with a $500 award to the participating professor of the course in which the inspiring play was taught. Leah Barsanti of Northwestern University was inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and sponsored by Professor Roxane Heinze-Bradshaw.
This is Nora’s Playhouse’s first year collaborating with History Matters/Back to the The Future to produce a reading of the Barlow Award winning piece.
The reading will be held at 7:00pm on Monday, April 20, 2020 at the Episcopal Actors’ Guild (1 East 29th Street, NYC 10016). The reading will be followed by a talkback and a brief wine and cheese reception.

The Nora Salon on ZOOM: Cowboys Are Waiting For Me in Montana
2020-06-24 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | AL
We can’t yet gather in person for any theatre, so we are turning our postponed salon reading of Leah Kornfield Friedman’s Cowboys Are Waiting For Me In Montana (originally scheduled for 3/20) into a virtual gathering happening Wednesday, June 24th! We hope you will join us online for an informal reading and some friendly conversation on ZOOM!

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It’s the 4th of July. It is also the 45th wedding anniversary of Bride and Groom. When Groom comes home to reveal that he has been fired, Bride panics. But the couple decides to uphold their annual tradition anyway and journey through “The Notebook.” This detailed record of milestones and the wild range of emotions that has accompanied their decades long marriage, reveals Bride’s frustrations with her role as a wife and mother and her unquenchable thirst for change, adventure, and escape. Witness the “flotsam and jetsam” of Bride and Groom’s lives in Leah Kornfeld Friedman’s Beckett-esque one act, Cowboys Are Waiting For Me in Montana.
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The Nora Salon:
Cowboys Are Waiting For Me In Montana
Wednesday, June 24th at 7pm
online on ZOOM
Please email reservations@norasplayhouse.org to add your name to the guest list and receive the Zoom link for this online reading.

Nora’s Salon South Online: Zelda! Zelda!
2020-05-13 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | on Facebook Live
We hope you’ll join us on Facebook Live on Wednesday, May 13th at 7pm for the 2nd informal reading of Zelda! Zelda! by Prattville, Alabama’s own Marianne M. Weber. The play had its first reading on February 24 and the playwright has reworked the script based on the feedback she received. This is a unique opportunity to see a script in development come to life and provide constructive feedback for the playwright.
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The boys stood outside Zelda’s bedroom window calling, “Zelda! Come out, Zelda!” Lured by the promise of romance and fun, she crawled out her bedroom window to join them. Thus began Zelda Sayre’s waltz into the world of dazzling parties and the generation’s greatest artists. She became the ultimate flapper and an exciting artist in her own right.This beautiful, talented young woman hitched her rising star to the famous F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the two lived for years in a bubble of glitz, glamour, wealth and excitement. Later, while Scott struggled to maintain his status as a successful author, Zelda struggled to maintain her sanity. Zelda! Zelda! dramatizes the life of this vivacious, talented, troubled woman who is recognized today as the face of the Jazz Age.
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Nora’s Salon South Online: Zelda! Zelda!
Wednesday, May 13th at 7pm
on Facebook Live
hosted by Kristy Meanor on the Wetumpka Players Depot Facebook page

Suggested donation: $10 to Nora’s Playhouse or Wetumpka Players Depot

Nora's Salon South: Zelda! Zelda!
2020-02-24 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | Wetumpka Players Depot, 300 S. Main Street, Wetumpka, AL, 36092, United States
Our next gathering of Salon South is Monday, February 24th! We hope you’ll join us in Montgomery, Alabama for a glass of wine, friendly conversation, and an informal reading of Zelda! Zelda! by Prattville’s own Marianne M. Weber.
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The boys stood outside Zelda’s bedroom window calling, “Zelda! Come out, Zelda!” Lured by the promise of romance and fun, she crawled out her bedroom window to join them. Thus began Zelda Sayre’s waltz into the world of dazzling parties and the generation’s greatest artists. Thus she became the ultimate flapper and an exciting artist in her own right.This beautiful, talented young woman hitched her rising star to the famous F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the two lived for years in a bubble of glitz, glamour, wealth and excitement. Later, while Scott struggled to maintain his status as a successful author, Zelda struggled to maintain her sanity. Zelda! Zelda! dramatizes the life of this vivacious, talented, troubled woman who is recognized today as the face of the Jazz Age.
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Nora’s Salon South: Zelda! Zelda!

Monday, February 24th at 7pm
in Montgomery, AL’s Cloverdale
hosted by Marion Baab

due to overwhelming demand, we have moved this salon reading to a larger venue: Wetumpka Players Depot
SPACE IS LIMITED. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED.
Email reservations@norasplayhouse.org to add your name to the guest list. You will receive the exact street address when your reservation is confirmed.
Suggested donation: $10

The Nora Salon: Simple Gifts
2020-01-19 16:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Hosted by Simone Bloche, West 92nd Street & Columbus Avenue, New York, NY, 10025
Our next gathering of The Nora Salon is the afternoon of Sunday, January 19th on Manhattan’s Upper West Side! We hope you’ll join us for a glass of wine, friendly conversation, and an informal reading of Evangelia Costantakos Kingsley’s two-act play Simple Gifts

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In Hancock, Indiana, octogenarian ex-Metropolitan Opera diva and retired singing teacher, Elena Maxwell, is at the end of her life. Her much younger partner, Jean Lee, executive director of the Archives of Traditional Music at Hancock University, may beat her to the finish line. A young singer, Kirsten Mintow, needs guidance at the beginning of her musical career. The history of a nearby Shaker village breaks through the fabric of 1994. Simple Shaker song melds with sumptuous classical music, including the Shaker-infused music of Aaron Copland, as the play explores the theme of extinction and asks “What makes life worth living?”

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The Nora Salon: Simple Gifts
Sunday, January 19th at 4pm
at West 92nd Street and Columbus Ave, Upper West Side, Manhattan
hosted by Simone Bloch
SPACE IS LIMITED. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED.
Please email us at reservations@norasplayhouse.org with the subject “RSVP for Simple Gifts 1/19” to add your name to the guest list. You’ll receive the apartment number and directions in a separate email when your reservation is confirmed.
Suggested donation: $10

Nora's Salon South: From Warren to Lair and Back
2020-01-06 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | Mission House, 461 South Court Street, Montgomery, AL, 36104, United States
Our next gathering of Nora’s Salon South is Monday, January 6th! We hope you’ll join us for a glass of wine, friendly conversation, and an informal reading of Annie Ramsey’s: “From Warren to Lair and Back.”
Montgomery’s own Annie Ramsey will be on hand for the reading and the talkback that follows.
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On the edge of a fairytale-esque world sits the village of Warren, an old place permitted to exist on the whims of an ancient horror on the promise of their participation in a grizzly ritual. Four children must make their way to the far off village of Lair, and one is not to return unchanged. It now falls to their fellow villagers, and the audience members, to suss out the events of a single night in the woods.

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Nora’s Salon South: From Warren to Lair and Back
Monday, January 6th at 7pm
461 South Court Street, Montgomery, AL
hosted by Mission House
SPACE IS LIMITED. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED.
Email reservations@norasplayhouse.org with the subject “RSVP for Salon South: From Warren to Lair and Back on 1/6” to add your name to the guest list.
Suggested donation: $10

The Nora Salon: The Once And Future Casey Colman
2019-11-15 19:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Hosted by Emily J. Richard and Rosalind Zavras, West 54th Street (between 9th/10th), New York, NY, 10019
Our next gathering of The Nora Salon is Friday, November 15th in NYC!
We hope you’ll join us for a glass of wine, friendly conversation, and an informal reading of Jacqueline Bircher’s full-length play: The Once And Future Casey Colman.
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Crystal Plains, Kansas is a town filled with psychics. Maybe. No one’s exactly sure, but there’s definitely something weird going on. When 17-year-old Casey weasels her way into a seminar hosted by her psychic podcasting hero Miss Angela, she’s sure that her mysterious dreams are just beginning. But, when a cat begins slinking around town predicting untimely deaths, Casey must confront the possibility that maybe her dream come true isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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Space is limited. Reservations are required.
Please email us at reservations@norasplayhouse.org with the subject “RSVP for The Nora Salon: Casey Colman on 11/15” to add your name to the guest list. You’ll receive the exact address and directions in a separate email when your reservation is confirmed.
Suggested donation: $10

NEW DATE: Nora’s Salon South: Wish Bone
2019-11-10 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | Hosted by Susie Paul, Montgomery, AL, 36105, United States
Our next gathering of Nora’s Salon South is Sunday, November 10! We hope you’ll join us for a glass of wine, friendly conversation, and an informal reading of Phoebe Farber’s full-length play: “Wish Bone.”
NYC-based playwright Phoebe Farber will be joining us for the reading!

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Raylene works at the Homestead poultry processing plant in rural Shenandoah County, Virginia, gutting chickens and removing their legs and wings. It’s a disgusting job but it pays well, so she keeps her head down. But Ray feels trapped by her dead-end job, unhappy marriage, and an unfulfilling affair with a high school crush. Things start to change when Carla, an animal rights activist, arrives to organize a strike and opens Ray’s eyes to the cruelty all around her.
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Nora’s Salon South: Wish Bone
Sunday, November 10th at 7pm
in Montgomery, Alabama’s Garden District
hosted by Susie Paul

SPACE IS LIMITED. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED.
Please email us at reservations@norasplayhouse.org with the subject “RSVP for Salon South: Wish Bone on 11/10” to add your name to the guest list. You’ll receive the exact address in a separate email when your reservation is confirmed.
Suggested donation: $10

The Nora Salon: A Story About A Girl
2019-09-27 19:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | hosted by Grace & John Timberlake and Tracie Matthews, 135 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY, 11238, United States
Our next gathering of The Nora Salon is Friday, September 27th in Brooklyn! We hope you’ll join us for a glass of wine, friendly conversation, and an informal reading of Jacquelyn Reingold’s A Story About a Girl.

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Once upon a time there was a girl who had no words. She met a boy who had no friends. They make their own language of love, friendship and betrayal as they venture through life with and without each other. This play, with its play within a play, and its fairy tale form, tells the story of a silenced girl who finds love, loss, and a voice in the theatre.

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The Nora Salon: A Story About A Girl
Friday, September 27th at 7pm
at 135 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
(across the street from the Brooklyn Museum)
hosted by Grace & John Timberlake and Tracie Matthews
SPACE IS VERY LIMITED. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED.
Please email us at reservations@norasplayhouse.org to add your name to the guest list. You’ll receive the exact address and directions in a separate email when your reservation is confirmed.
Suggested donation: $10

2019 New York Innovative Theatre Awards Ceremony
2019-09-16 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Centennial Memorial Theatre, 120 West 14th Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
We are excited about the 2019 NYIT Awards Ceremony on Monday, September 16. A small group from Nora’s Playhouse will be in attendance, celebrating off-off-Broadway theatre and cheering on Lisa Strum who was nominated for her work in Nora’s Playhouse’s whatdoesfreemean?.
Want to join us? The ceremony is September 16 from 7pm to 10pm at Centennial Memorial Theatre, 120 West 14th Street, New York, NY. You can get a discounted $19 ticket at nyitawards.com/shop with the code itnom19.
Discount expires September 12, 2019.

Nora's Salon South: A Hard Place
2019-08-26 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | hosted by Stephen Brickley, Ridge Avenue, Montgomery, NY, 36106, United States
Our next gathering of Salon South is Monday, August 26th! We hope you’ll join us in Montgomery, Alabama for a glass of wine, friendly conversation, and an informal reading of Cyndie Cox’s first full length play, A Hard Place.

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Colleen, imprisoned in her family home by the task of caring for her disabled, dementia-suffering father, discovers a deep, dark, family secret when her siblings come to visit.

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Nora’s Salon South: A Hard Place
Monday, August 26th at 7pm
in Old Cloverdale, Montgomery, AL
hosted by Stephen Brickley
SPACE IS LIMITED. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED.
THIS GATHERING OF NORA’S SALON SOUTH IS CURRENTLY FULL.
Please email us at reservations@norasplayhouse.org to add your name to the waitlist. Should any spots open up, we will let you know asap!
Suggested donation: $10

The Nora Salon: "City of Ladies"
2019-07-26 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Hosted by Rebecca Lovett, E 29th St, btwn Madison/5th, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Our next gathering of The Nora Salon is Friday, July 26th in NYC!
We hope you’ll join us for a glass of wine, friendly conversation, and an informal reading of Lorraine Liscio’s full-length play: City of Ladies.
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Paris 1418. Writer Christine de Pizan raises her voice against the forces of power: the Royal Duke who provokes civil war and is in love with her; and the Sorbonne Chancellor who seeks to enlist her to promote a misogynistic book as France’s literary masterpiece. Defying everyone, she publishes her City of Ladies where women play all the key roles in society. Forced to flee for her life, years later she is vindicated by an unprecedented event.
Christine de Pizan is the first French female author to ever get paid for her work.
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Space is limited. Reservations are required.
Please email us at reservations@norasplayhouse.org to add your name to the guest list. You’ll receive the exact address in a separate email when your reservation is confirmed.

Nora's Salon South: "Redtop Road Requiem" + "In the Midst of the Storm"
2019-06-24 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | Hosted by Lil Martin, Woodledge Drive, Montgomery, AL, 36109, United States
The next gathering of our Alabama reading series, Nora’s Salon South, is Monday, June 24th. And it is a Double Feature! We hope our Alabama folks will join us for a glass of wine, friendly conversation, and informal readings of two short plays developed through this year’s The Nora Project: Susan Samuel’s Redtop Road Requiem and Lil Martin’s In the Midst of the Storm.
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Set in the early 1960’s in a small Florida town, Susan Samuel’s Redtop Road Requiem follows two children struggling to come to terms with their larger-than-life father’s alcoholism. When he may have been involved in a hit and run accident in which someone may or may not have been killed, the family circles the wagons to protect him.
Lil Martin’s In the Midst of the Storm is about an African American teen girl who is trying to deal with her emotions after witnessing a tragic event. Will she have the courage to tell the truth or will she try to reclaim the innocence she lost?
Both pieces were developed through storytelling and playwriting exercises as a part of this year’s The Nora Project.
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SPACE IS LIMITED. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED.
Please email us at reservations@norasplayhouse.org to add your name to the guest list. You will receive the exact street address when your reservation is confirmed.

The Nora Salon: "Skin Hungry"
2019-05-10 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Hosted by Ettie Ward, 2500 Johnson Avenue, Riverdale, NY, 10463, United States
Our next gathering of NYC’s The Nora Salon is Friday, May 10th in Riverdale! We hope you’ll join us for a glass of wine, friendly conversation, and an informal reading of Erin Mallon’s full length play: Skin Hungry.
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Ruth is a 74-year old woman.
Rowan is a 23-year-old man.
They’re in love.
And Ruth’s 43-year-old son is freaking the hell out.
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Space is extremely limited. Reservations are required.
Please email us at reservations@norasplayhouse.org to add your name to the guest list.

You’ll receive the exact address and directions in a separate email when your reservation is confirmed.
Suggested donation: $10

Nora's Salon South: "Exposure"
2019-04-30 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Hosted by Elizabeth Crump, Gilmer Avenue and Felder Avenue, Montgomery, 36104, United States
The next gathering of our Alabama reading series, Nora’s Salon South, is Tuesday, April 30th.
We hope you’ll join us for a glass of wine, friendly conversation, and an informal reading of Pauline David-Sax‘s play: Exposure.
In the early 1920s, loyalties are tested and secrets exposed as two women struggle to define themselves. Georgia gained notoriety as the subject of husband Alfred’s photographs and now fights to be taken seriously as a painter in her own right. Beck endures a lackluster job while waiting for her husband, aspiring photographer Paul, to achieve the financial success necessary to support a family. When Alfred and Georgia invite Beck and Paul to their lake house for a visit, Paul sees the trip as a chance to convince Alfred, now a successful gallery owner, to showcase his latest work, but Alfred is preoccupied with his own artistic pursuits. Beck attempts to advocate for Paul with both Alfred and Georgia, not realizing that her interference has the potential to undermine both Georgia’s career and her own marriage.
Loosely based on the lives of real life artists Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Rebecca Strand, Exposure explores the complexities of gender, creativity, success, and loyalty.
Playwright Pauline David-Sax will be on hand for the reading and the talkback that follows. Nora’s Playhouse featured David-Sax’s Exposure at The Nora Salon in NYC in November 2017.

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SPACE IS LIMITED. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED.
Please email us at reservations@norasplayhouse.org to add your name to the guest list. You will receive the exact street address when your reservation is confirmed.

The Nora Project: Women Write - Final Presentations
2019-04-16 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | Sidney Lanier High School, 1756 S. Court Street, Montgomery, 36104, United States
Over the past ten weeks, a group of teenage girls from Sidney Lanier High School and elder women from the Montgomery community have been meeting once a week to get to know one another, share their life stories, and explore the art of storytelling. Each was then tasked with writing a short play based on something they heard in their inter-generational partner’s story.
Join us when experienced local actors will be reading these original short scripts in front of a live audience.
The event is FREE and open to the public.
A small reception will follow.
For more information, please contact Caroline at caroline.lawson@norasplayhouse.org.
The Nora Project is presented by Nora’s Playhouse. This event is dedicated to the memory of Jim Hodgson.
The Nora Project is supported, in part, by a grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

The Nora Salon: "Waiting"
2019-03-29 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Hosted by Rebecca Lovett, E 29th St, btwn Madison/5th, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Our next gathering of The Nora Salon is Friday, March 29th in NoMad, Manhattan! We hope you’ll join us for a glass of wine, friendly conversation, and an informal reading of Donna Kaz’s full-length play with music: Waiting.

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A parody of Broadway and the New York City restaurant business, Waiting begins as Lucy, a young actress from a small Midwestern town, steps off the bus in Times Square ready to pursue her dream of being an actress. She immediately lands her first job on Broadway–waiting on tables in a restaurant. All of the waiters at The Great White Café are actors, too, each one desperate to land a job in the theatre, yet unconsciously addicted to the performative aspects of waiting on tables. Who needs a part in a play when you have a job at which you “perform” with energy and speed combined with sincerity and pathos? To make matters worse, the Café’s manager, Howard, is a sexist bully who despises artists and does everything he can to make sure his team never escape into a world where actors earn respect. Waiting is set during a not-so-long-ago-era when women had to buck up to being harassed or lose their jobs and asks the question: Can actors who are New York City waiters ever play any other part?

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Space is extremely limited. Reservations are required.
Please email us at reservations@norasplayhouse.org to add your name to the guest list.

You’ll receive the exact address and directions in a separate email when your reservation is confirmed.
Suggested donation: $10

Nora's Salon South: "Rehearsing Desire"
2019-02-25 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Hosted by Susan Samuel, Bankhead Avenue, Old Cloverdale, Montgomery, AL, 36106, United States
Our next gathering of Nora’s Salon South in Montgomery, Alabama is Monday, February 25th!
We hope you’ll join us for a glass of wine, friendly conversation, and an informal reading of Rehearsing Desire by friend of Nora’s, Suzanne Trauth (Francoise, La Fonda).

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An American in . . . Kiev? It’s the summer of 1991, and Charlotte Cranford is the first American–and first woman–director at the Kiev Theatre Company. She’s been sent by her university on a cultural exchange to oversee a production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. The play’s passions boil over into a real-life love triangle as the streets outside the theatre erupt in violence, leading to Ukrainian Independence. Love, loyalty, commitment, courage, art and Soviet intrigue challenge the old cliche that the show must go on.

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Space is extremely limited. Reservations are required.
Please email us at reservations@norasplayhouse.org to add your name to the guest list. You’ll receive the exact address in a separate email when your reservation is confirmed.

The Nora Salon: "Great White"
2019-01-11 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Hosted by Franklin Stone, Pacific Street and Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, United States
Our next gathering of The Nora Salon is Friday, January 11th in Brooklyn!
We hope you’ll join us in the new year for a glass of wine, friendly conversation, and an informal reading of Deborah Yarchun’s full-length play: Great White.

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Fourteen-year-old Brooke is in trouble. Her sixteen-year-old sister, Ivy, is manic and increasingly violent, and their mother, Gail, refuses to acknowledge the danger. As Brooke struggles to hold her family together, she copes by tracking a great white shark. This leads her to Luis, a troubled fifteen-year-old boy intent on swimming out to meet the shark in the ocean. As their friendship deepens, Brooke becomes increasingly aware of the shark drawing closer in her own life: that her sister, in a manic fit, might kill her. Set in present-day southern Florida, between coastal floods, Great White is a coming-of-age drama that explores unremitting love for family, and the consequences of inaction.
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Space is extremely limited. Reservations are required.
Please email us at reservations@norasplayhouse.org to add your name to the guest list.
You’ll receive the exact address and directions in a separate email when your reservation is confirmed.
Suggested donation: $10

The Nora Salon: "Wish Bone"
2018-11-30 19:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Hosted by Anne Farber, 161 West 86th Street, New York, NY, 10024, United States
Our next gathering of The Nora Salon is Friday, November 30! We hope you’ll join us for a glass of wine, friendly conversation, and an informal reading of Phoebe Farber’s full-length play: Wish Bone.
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Raylene works at the Homestead poultry processing plant in rural Shenandoah County, Virginia, gutting chickens and removing their legs and wings. It’s a disgusting job but it pays well, so she keeps her head down. But Ray feels trapped by her dead-end job, unhappy marriage, and an unfulfilling affair with a high school crush. Things start to change when Carla, an animal rights activist, arrives to organize a strike and opens Ray’s eyes to the cruelty all around her.
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Space is extremely limited. Reservations are required.
Please email us at reservations@norasplayhouse.org to add your name to the guest list. You’ll receive the apartment number and directions in a separate email when your reservation is confirmed.
(Please note: Our host has a cat.)

Nora's Salon South: Ashes & Ink
2018-10-25 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Hosted by Mission House, 461 South Court Street, Montgomery, AL, 36104, United States
Our first ever gathering of Nora’s Salon South is Thursday, October 25th! We are excited to invite you to join us for a glass of wine, friendly conversation, and an informal reading of Martha Pichey’s “Ashes & Ink,” a play currently in development with Nora’s Playhouse.
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Molly would do anything for her son, especially since the death of her husband. But trying to keep Quinn on track after he descended into addiction means she’s close to going off the rails herself. Now he’s just out of rehab with the chance to audition for a place at the world’s best drama school. Molly wants to trust him. She wants him well more than anything. But how does a mother move on and make room for new love when she’s consumed with the life of her son?
SPACE IS LIMITED. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED.
Please email us at reservations@norasplayhouse.org to add your name to the guest list.

The Nora Salon: "The Great Forgotten"
2018-09-21 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Hosted by Ben Dwoken, 550 West 45th Street, New York, NY, 10036, United States
Our next gathering of The Nora Salon is Friday, September 21. We hope you’ll join us for a glass of wine, friendly conversation, and an informal reading of an excerpt from Kacie and Karen Devaney’s two-act play: “The Great Forgotten.”
In 1917, Elizabeth is one of the first registered nurses to offer her services in France when the United States finally enters World War I. Her sister Celia, an artist at heart, never shies away from adventure, so she signs up as a volunteer to aide in the Great War, tagging along with Elizabeth for what she imagines will be an exciting experience. Together with their fellow nurses, the sisters are faced with the gruesome realities of trench warfare as they struggle to save the thousands of wounded soldiers who pass through base hospital 21. Through friendship, tears, and laughter, these unsung heroes perform extraordinary acts of courage, even when it means risking their own lives.
With the World War I centennial just around the corner on November 11th, we hope you will join us for the premiere reading of this new, completely revised version of The Great Forgotten by mother-daughter playwrighting team Kacie and Karen Devaney.
Please email us at reservations@norasplayhouse.org to add your name to the guest list. You’ll receive the apartment number and directions in a separate email when your reservation is confirmed.

whatdoesfreemean? 3pm - CLOSING
2018-07-22 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | The Tank, 312 West 36th Street, 1st Floor, NEW YORK, NY, 10018, United States
Nora’s Playhouse presents
whatdoesfreemean?
a new play by award-winning human rights playwright Catherine Filloux
whatdoesfreemean? follows the journey of an African-American woman serving a long sentence for a non-violent drug offense. When Mary ends up in solitary confinement, she struggles to maintain her sanity in the face of loneliness, indifference, human cruelty, and loss. The play takes the audience into her psychic world. We travel alongside her self-guided intellectual and emotional journey into the nature of freedom, both physical and psychological as Marys external and internal experience unfolds on stage in the present, in memory, and in the fantasies that help her survive.
With James Edward Becton*, Brenda Crawley, Justin Jorrell, Galway McCullough*, Liz Morgan*, and Lisa Strum* as Mary
Directed by Amy S. Green
Scenic and Lighting Design by Phoebe Mauro
Projection and Sound Design by Sadah Espii Proctor
Costume Design by Rashidah Nelson
Fight Choreography by Galway McCullough
General Management by Rebecca Lovett

whatdoesfreemean? was developed with the support of Nora’s Playhouse.
The Nora’s Playhouse production of whatdoesfreemean? is presented by The Tank. It is an Equity approved showcase.
*Actors appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association
Graphic Design: Veronica Bella
