In 2008, CSC celebrates 16 years of serving exciting new women playwrights from around the country! Join us this year and be the first to hear four new works by dynamic women authors. Let your voice help shape the play as you interact with the playwright and cast during the lively audience "talk-back" session. The WPS is a developmental program dedicated to providing a working forum for the under-served and unique voice of women writing for the theatre today.

Wed., April 9, 7:30 pm

A Death Defying Act
Playwright:  Barbara Lindsay
When Levaughn's husband Connor is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, they decide to take a trip to the Islands for some mysterious "alternative therapy". Connor returns seemingly cured, making a decision to discontinue his conventional medical therapies, to the concern of other family members.
 

Wed., April 16, 7:30 pm

Strange Weather
Playwright:  Renee Flemings
Strange Weather is a southern mystery in a new play by Renee Flemings. The secrets of a close southern family churn to the surface when their daughter announces that she is about to experience a virgin birth.
 
 
 

Wed., April 23, 7:30 pm

You May Go Now
Playwright:    
Bekah Brunstetter
This razor sharp retro-black comedy takes us to a 1950's style kitchen, where Dottie is trying to teach her daughter how to be the perfect wife. But a reappearing husband, and a mysterious young visitor suggest a less than perfect past in this domestic domicile.
 
 

Free and open to the public!
Call for more information: 908-979-0900
Refreshments & Discussion with Playwright & Cast
Also see Women Playwrights Series program description.
 

Annual programming at the Centenary Performing Arts Guild are made possible in part through the generous support of the The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour (Penn PAT) , Heath Village, Coldwell Banker and Arts Guild Members and Sponsors.