Salon Readings
For the Salon Reading Series, advance tickets are strongly encouraged. Seating is general admission, first come, first served.
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No additional charges.
6:30pm : Doors open
7:00pm : Readings begin
After: Discussion
DESTROYING DAVID
MON, JUNE 8
7:00PM
Written & Performed by Jason Odell Williams*
Directed by Charlotte Cohn
An unnamed tour guide leads the audience on a private tour through the Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze. But as the guide shares the fascinating history and precarious physical condition of Michelangelo’s famous statue, the story becomes more personal as the guide reveals they have recently suffered a profound loss and believe the only way to heal is to destroy the world’s most beautiful work of art: Michelangelo’s David. Funny, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting, DESTROYING DAVID is an ode to the beauty, resilience, and power of art to help us through our darkest hours.
Location: West End Arts Center, 132 West End Ave, Long Branch
AHOY-HOY
MON, JUNE 15
7:00PM
AHOY-HOY: A Play About That Relatable Feeling When Someone Else Invents The
Telephone Three Hours Before You Do
By Jenny Stafford
Directed by Matt DiCarlo
It’s 1876 and Elisha Gray is this close to inventing the telephone. He’s brilliant, anxious, and ready to make history — only if Alexander Graham Bell doesn’t beat him to it! A pair of oversized egos. One telephone. A battle of beards and bell tones. AHOY-HOY is a deliriously unhinged, unapologetic sprint through American ambition, innovation, and the absurd quest for legacy.
Location: West End Arts Center, 132 West End Ave, Long Branch
THE SISTERS FRANKENSTEIN
MON, AUG 3
7:00PM
THE SISTERS FRANKENSTEIN
(A Mashup of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters & Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein)
By Robert Caisley
What if Mary Shelley’s Dr. Frankenstein performed an organ transplant on Chekhov’s Three Sisters? You might come up with a comedy like this! In a sleepy, provincial Russian backwater, three cultured but eccentric sisters–heirs to their recently deceased father’s estate and his medical journals–live a numbingly mundane life until they decide to build the perfect companion to rescue them from their tedium. Their experiment works at first, forcing each of them to choose between the fantasies they’ve stitched together and a romanticized future in Moscow…or to find real meaning in the lives they’ve inherited.
Location: West End Arts Center, 132 West End Ave, Long Branch