“Sleeping Beauty” returns to Michigan

Master Arts Theatre Youth Summer Stock reprises Sleeping Beauty on August 29 as part of their thirty hours of straight theater. Master Arts is celebrating thirty years of serving West Michigan with quality, family friendly theater. In Sleeping Beauty, an audience-participation TYA comedy for a small to medium-sized cast, the bad fairy who cursed the young princess finally gets to tell her side of the story. To learn more about Master Arts and their anniversary celebration, visit www.masterarts.org. Sleeping Beauty is published by Playscripts, Inc. Go to Playscripts, Inc. at www.playscripts.com or call 1-866-NEW-PLAY(1-866-639-7529) to read part of the script online for free, buy a hardcopy of the play, or get production rights. For other plays for youth and adults, go to www.StaceyLaneInk.com or e-mail StaceyLaneInk@yahoo.com.

“If Romeo and Juliet Had Cell Phones” premieres in Washington

The Changing Scene Theatre Northwest presents the world premiere of If Romeo and Juliet Had Cell Phones as part of “Summerplay 2015: A Festival of New Works!” running August 22 to August 30 at Tacoma Musical Playhouse in Tacoma, Washington. In this short comedy for a young male and female actor and a female voiceover, Romeo and Juliet’s perfect romantic encounter at the masquerade takes a turn when they decide to exchange phone numbers. Go to www.changingscenenorthwest.org or The Changing Scene Theatre Northwest's Facebook Page for more about this celebration of new scripts. Visit www.StaceyLaneInk.com or contact StaceyLaneInk@yahoo.com to preview this play or other new works, short and long, for young and old.  

Alyssa Lawrence and Dominic Girolami in If Romeo and Juliet Had Cell Phones at Tacoma Musical Playhouse in Tacoma, WA.  Produced by The Changing Scene Theatre Northwest. Directed by Pavlina Morris. Assistant directed by Jen Aylsworth.

“A Thousand Variations on a Lie Told Once” plays in Indiana

Selections from A Thousand Variations on a Lie Told Once will be read August 21 through 29 as part of the 2015 Dionysia New Play Competition at Khaos Company Theatre in Indianapolis, Indiana. In A Thousand Variations on a Lie Told Once, a full-length serio-comedy with a cast of four women and one man, three grown daughters return to their childhood home to confront their mother and her new fiancé about the goodbye letters that they believe their deceased father has left for them. The mother claims the letters never existed.  To learn more about this new works festival, go to www.kctindy.com. For more about the script, visit www.StaceyLaneInk.com or contact StaceyLaneInk@yahoo.com.

“Checkered Past” plays in Ohio

Checkered Past is being performed August 21 in Columbus, Ohio as winner of the Clintonville Community Market Food Play Competition. In this short dark comedy for three actors of either gender, rouge ants at a picnic crave more than their life of work and conformity offers. Go to www.StaceyLaneInk.com or contact StaceyLaneInk@yahoo.com for more information about this script and other available new plays.

“The Hundred Dollar Hug” plays in Sydney, Australia

The Hundred Dollar Hug is being performed at Kirrawee High School in Sydney, Australia. In this monologue for a male performer of any age and ethnicity, a darkly disillusioned man tries to pay someone to hug him. To preview this monologue or other new plays, short and full-length, please visit www.StaceyLaneInk.com or e-mail StaceyLaneInk@yahoo.com.