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March Reading — Just So Typically Me, by Troy Loftin — Cancelled (to be rescheduled)

February 26, 2020 By Elizabeth Earle

Is it so cruel for the world for one to be a perfectionist? Is the victory of my handwork a defeat for you? It’s just so typically me to want everything…

Come out to see the reading of Just So Typically Me

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November Reading!

November 12, 2019 By Elizabeth Earle

Two sisters — teenagers.  One is a mother to a baby boy, one is not. One survives the shooting at their high school, one does not. Today is 18 years later and the Day of the Dead.  The baby boy is now a teenager, and he and the sisters reunite, as they do every Day of the Dead.

Funded in Part by the City of Houston Through Houston Arts Alliance

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October Reading!

October 4, 2019 By Elizabeth Earle

Julian, a woman riding the tides of her mania and depression, has returned home in the far north live in her childhood treehouse while writing book with her best friend about the loss of her twin sister. But Julian has a hidden motive — hidden far below in a mysterious Chamber beneath the ice.

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Our September reading — World Classic, by Nelson Diaz-Marcano, our bilingual play

August 27, 2019 By Elizabeth Earle

An ex-baseball player from Puerto Rico currently living in New York gathers two generations of his family to watch a big game.  Accusations get bunted about as festering wounds break open.

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Our May reading! You Are What You, by Mora Harris

April 19, 2019 By Elizabeth Earle

Competitive eater Francie is desperate to find a way to help her younger anorexic sister Trisha eat. They get a surprise visit from their favorite sassy, sarcastic, celebrity chef. Will she save the day or compound the problem?
There’s also a talking pot roast. 

Free event!


Wordsmyth Theater Company is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.

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April 1 reading — Tweet, by Charles Zito

March 20, 2019 By Elizabeth Earle

Be careful what you tweet! What should be the consequences for Lily when she tweets what she thinks is a joke, but what the internet deems to be racist and homophobic?

FREE!

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Our March reading — featuring a Houston playwright!

February 20, 2019 By Elizabeth Earle

“I didn’t know who else to call,” says Tara about her husband, Benji, a badass Mexican combat medic, to his sister Josie.  Benji came back from Afghanistan and …well…things are not the same. 

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Cultured Cocktails!

December 3, 2018 By Elizabeth Earle

Please join us for Cultured Cocktails at Boheme Cafe & Wine Bar at 307 Fairview St. near the corner of Taft St. on Thursday, Dec. 13, from 5 to 8.  We will receive 10% of the proceeds from all drink sales. We will have short readings from scenes of two plays.  So come join us for a fun and socializing, while also raising funds! (P.S., I hear their patio is dog friendly.)

 

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November reading — To She Who Waits, by Robert Clyman

October 19, 2018 By Elizabeth Earle

She left her husband, daughter and the extremist religious community to which they belonged.  Now, her husband has died, and she wants her daughter back and to do that she has to stand up against the courts….and the girl she left behind.  

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October reading!

September 24, 2018 By Elizabeth Earle

Two teenagers disappeared from a party. The girl was found two days later, unrecognizable and nonsensical.  The boy was never found.

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