Blog: The Great Debate

Writing to you from dress rehearsals for THE AMERICAN DREAM SONGBOOK, I’m pleased to announce Next Theatre has commissioned New York-based playwright David Johnston for a project tentatively called “The Rapture”! I’ve been pursuing him since Literary Associate Lila Stromer made me read his play CANDY AND DOROTHY, which I adored, and which went on for a well-received off-Broadway run. He’s also the author of the very dangerous, iconoclastic, and astonishing BUSTED JESUS COMIX, which has scared producers … Read More >

So we’ve just closed an incredibly successful world premiere – The Adding Machine: A Chamber Musical. Many of you remember we did a workshop of the piece two years ago, and the subscribers who attended gave us amazing feedback which helped turn it into the hit it’s become. So what do we do now? Rest on our laurels?

HARDLY!

No, we start work on a new world premiere: The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death by Carson Kreitzer. And we’re getting a workshop … Read More >