Readings

Rehearsed readings are an important component of Dramashop’s history, mission, and purpose. Theater makers have long relied on this format as an economical, efficient, and enriching way to share plays with audiences and develop new works free from the added demands of a fully produced performance.

Effective 2024, our rehearsed readings are now integrated into the Dramashop Originals Festival with the goal of providing more emerging authors an opportunity to hear their words interpreted by other artists, read aloud by actors, and responded to by a thoughtful public.

Cultural and community service organizations with an interest in partnering on rehearsed readings for special engagements are also welcome to contact us via: info@dramashop.org

    • The Christians by Lucas Hnath

    • The Pleasure Trials by Sarah Saltwick

    • The Antipodes by Annie Baker

    • Horse Girls by Jenny Rachel Weiner

    • Stop Kiss by Diana Son

    • Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Edited by Jessica Flock (Live Stream)

    • A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney by Lucas Hnath

    • Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson

    • Hir by Taylor Mac

    • Gloria by Branden Jacobs Jenkins

    • A Bright Room Called Day by Tony Kushner

    • Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker

    • The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl

    • Dark Play, or Stories for Boys by Carlos Murillo

    • Laughter on the 23rd Floor by Neil Simon

    • Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin

    • Next Fall by Geoffrey Naufft

    • Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris

    • God Help Us by Jeremy Kehoe

    • The Take of the Allergist’s Wife by Charles Busch

    • How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel

    • Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire

    • Love Actually Isn’t by Dan Johnson

    • Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies

    • The Stantaland Diaries by David Sedaris

    • 8 by Dustin Lance Black

    • God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza