The Canaan Wedding, or Disciples Gone Wild by The Porch Room's John P. Dowign is currently on stage as part of the Jersey Voices festival!
The Chatham Community Players will host its 17th annual Jersey Voices One-Act Festival with five performances between July 29 and August 6. This year’s production will include five original short plays written by New Jersey playwrights, as well as one original dance piece.
Performance dates are Friday and Saturday evenings, July 29, 30 and August 5 and 6. There is one Thursday performance on August 4. All performances begin at 8 p.m. at the Chatham Playhouse 23 North Passaic Ave Chatham, NJ
"The Caanan Wedding, or Disciples Gone Wild" is directed by Jon DeAngelis, who bares no relation to our own J. Michael DeAngelis - but The Porch Room has always believed in the power of coincidence!
Get tickets and information now at the Chatham Community Players website.
Read a great review of the opening night performance at NJ Arts Mavan.
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Deep Fried Everything is our newest collection of original one-act plays. Life is a carnival and we’re gonna prove it; “Deep Fried Everything” deals with birth, life, death, and everything that falls in between, all in the time it takes you to cross the Midway.
“Deep Fried Everything” will be performed at Piscataway’s Circle Players, as a benefit for that organization, and runs two weekends: July 15, 16, 22, & 23.
Show times are 8 pm. Tickets are $10 for all seats.
The Porch Room’s last collection of one-acts, “Accidents Happen”, received publication by Samuel French following its performance at Circle Players in the summer of 2008.
"Deep Fried Everything" consists of three short plays and a creative sequence of liking segments called "Dark Ride".
The casts and creative temas are as follows:
"Dark Ride" by Pete Barry & J. Michael DeAngelis
Directed by Pete Barry
Starring David Serfass, Rebecca Serfass and Pete Barry
"Dunk" by Pete Barry & J. Michael DeAngelis
Directed by Erik Hall
Starring
Eric Branda, Rebecca Dagnal, John Dowgin, Michael Stratton, Matt Viola and Eric Walby
"Dupe" by John P. Dowgin
Directed by John P. Dowgin
Starring
Eric Branda, Kelsey Bramson, Tommy Cesard, Faith Dowgin, John Dowgin, Gennie Fabian, Jeff Maschi, Ian Pratt and Matt Viola
"Drop" by Pete Barry & J. Michael DeAngelis
Directed by J. Michael DeAngelis
Starring
Pete Barry, J. Michael DeAngelis and John Dowgin
Tickets can be purchased online beginning June 27th at circleplayers.com, or call 732-968-7555 to make reservations.
"Drop" is produced through special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
The Porch Room is very excited to be working again with Circle Players Theater (our fourth collaboration!), with a new evening of one acts entitled Deep Fried Everything. The show contains three thematically connected plays, all set at various types of carnivals or amusement parks: Dunk by J. Michael DeAngelis & Pete Barry, Dupe by John P. Dowgin and Porch Rom fan favorite, Drop by Pete Barry & J. Michael DeAngelis. Performances will be this July at Circle.
Audition information is as follows:
Wednesday and Thursday, May 11 & 12, at 7:30 pm
Circle Players, 416 Victoria Ave, Piscataway, NJ.
Open auditions will be held for two of the evening’s pieces: “Dunk” and “Dupe”, as well as for a series of vingettes that link the plays together. {Note that the roles of Jackson and Sonya in "Dupe" and all roles in "Drop" have been cast.} Auditions will consist of readings from the scripts. The scripts will be available for perusal online now!
Complete audition information, including character breakdowns can be found on Circle's Facebook page.
Any questions can be sent by email via circleplayersnj@gmail.com
Porch Room co-founder Pete Barry has been selected to be a part of this amazing new collection of hysterical short plays featuring some of the best comedy writers of our time! Pete's "Nine Point Eight Meters Per Second Per Second" (from the recently released "Accidents Happen") is reprinted in this collection alongside works from such luminaries as Christopher Durang, David Ives, Warren Leight, Theresa Rebeck and Mary Lousie Wilson.
Join the Porch Room at the Drama Book Shop on May 12 at 6pm for a gala release of "Shorter, Faster, Funnier" and a chance to mix and mingle with Pete and the other authors.
"Shorter, Faster, Funnier" is available to pre-order in paperback and in e-book format, alongside "Accidents Happen" and other Porch Room publications in our Amazon storefront!
We're pleased to announce that Accidents Happen is now available in print from our good friends at Samuel French! These seven great short plays by John, Pete and Michael are now yours to read or perform.
Included in this, the first ever published anthology of Porch Room shorts are selected plays from our 2008 production Accidents Happen, which was produced at Circle Players Theater: Accidents Happen and Reunion Special by J. Michael DeAngelis; Nine Point Eight Meters Per Second Per Second, Hangman and The Banderscott by Pete Barry; and The Clive Way and Tricks of the Trade by John P. Dowgin.
Click on the image on the left to purchase your copy today from Amazon.com and help support The Porch Room!
For more information, read about the original production or learn more about the individual plays in our script library. Applications for performance rights can be made on the Samuel French website.
We're thrilled to once again team up with Circle Players Theater, who we worked with on An Evening on the Porch and (the soon-to-be-published!) Accidents Happen. This time round, we're providing two all new one act plays, especially written for their annual Halloween fundraiser!
Both new pieces are written by our resident master of the macbre, Pete Barry. First up will be All in the Head, directed by John, an imagined look at the formative boarding school years of the adolescent Edgar Allan Poe. Featured in the cast are all three Porch Room staples - Michael, Pete and John, alongside Tyler J. Abelson. The second piece, Agoraphobia, directed by Pete, tells the story of two friends attempt to deal with the aftermath of one's encounter with a nightclub vampire. Michael and John star as the two friends, with fangtastic support from Faith Agnew Dowgin (Friday night only) and Katie McGillick (Saturday).
Along side The Porch Room shows, Circle Players' own Gordon Weiner will debut his The Seer on East Seventh.
Performances are Friday, 10/22 and Saturday, 10/23 at 8pm. Tickets are just $10 and include admission to both the show and the Halloween themed party that follows each night!
For more information, visit www.circleplayers.com or buy your tickets here!
Pete Barry, our resident writing machine, recently took home second prize in MoviePoet.com's August screenplay contest.
Pete's script is entitled Cameo - a thriller that pits an avant garde film maker against a Hitchcock obessed madman.
The complete script is available to read online to registered users of the Movie Poet site. A revised version will be available in our script library shortly.
Producers inteterested in optioning the work should contact The Porch Room.
For more information, visit www.moviepoet.com! Congratulations to Pete!
Like sex?
Like math? No? Uh...like sex?
Then come see the brand new short play by Pete Barry, Sex with a Mathematician, at the Pittsburgh New Works Festival! Two mathematical savants engage in a battle of wits on a torturous and highly improbable blind date. Performances run September 16th-19th at the Father Ryan Arts Center at 420 Chartiers Avenue in McKees Rocks, PA.
And if you can't make it to Pittsburgh (or don't like sex) then check out Signs From God.
In Signs From God, a frustrated satellite TV salesman discovers a revolutionary business in a sign maker who can deliver personalized messages from God. What is the cost of selling the impossible?
Rehearsals are under way, and the Porch Room is very excited to make its Philly Fringe debut! Find out more about Signs From God, or have God make you your own personal sign, or buy tickets on the Philly Fringe website.
J. Michael DeAngelis & Pete Barry to talk about their play "Drop" at the Univeristy of Pennsylvania Bookstore
"ACCIDENTS HAPPEN" TO BE PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.!Selected plays from ACCIDENTS HAPPEN, our 2008 showcase at Circle Players Theater will be published by Samuel French, Inc! This is the first collection of plays to be written exclusively by The Porch Room!
The collection will include Nine Point Eight Meters Per Second Per Second, Hangman and The Banderscott by Pete Barry, Accidents Happen and Reunion Special by J. Michael DeAngelis and The Clive Way and Tricks of the Trade by John P. Dowgin.
Details will be posted here as it becomes available and mon our Facebook fan page in the months ahead! Thanks to our friends at Samuel French and Circle Players for helping this dream come true!
Come celebrate one of the winning plays from the acclaimed 2009 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival! J. Michael DeAngelis and Pete Barry will talk about their new play, "Drop."
Selected scenes from the play will be read by a talented cast:
Mike.........Harrison Unger
Ric...........Jon Cinque
Jackson.....Devin Plantamura
The world’s oldest and largest publisher and licensor of plays, Samuel French Inc., is proud to celebrate its newest release “Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 34th Series” --A collection of winning plays from its acclaimed “2009 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival."
Michael and Pete will talk about their careers as theater artists, take questions from the audience and sign copies of the book. Come out and meet some of the gang from Porch Room and get your copy of Drop signed by Michael & Pete. More information can be found on our Facebook page and on the Samuel French OOB Festival Blog!
Monday, May 3rd - 6:30 pm
The Penn Bookstore (Barnes & Noble)
3601 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
Both Pete and Michael have been featured on the Samuel French OOB Festival Blog this month. Be sure to check out their insightful interviews! Read Pete's interview here and then read Michael's!
Mark your calanders now! THE FRUPPUM ALABAMA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE by John P. Dowgin will be performed as part of The Living Series one act festival at the Piper Theater! The festival runs June 18-20 at the Piper Theater in Brooklyn, NY.
"Fruppum" has been a big hit for the Porch Room, having previously been played in as part of Burt Reynolds' Amazing Napalm Powered Oven and An Evening on the Porch. It was an official selection of the 2005 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival.
More information will be available here and on our Facebook fan page in the month ahead!
J. Michael DeAngelis and Pete Barry's winning short play, Drop, is now for sale as part of OFF OFF BROADWAY PLAYS, 34th SERIES from Samuel French.
Purchase your copy of Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 34th Series
Come join J. Michael DeAngelis and Pete Barry for the official release of their play Drop by Samuel French at The Drama Book Shop at 250 West 40 Street in New York City, on February 22nd! John Dowgin will also be on hand to join the authors in a short reading as they reprise their roles from their award-winning production from last summer.
The world’s oldest and largest publisher and licensor of plays, Samuel French Inc., will release “Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 34th Series” a collection of winning plays from its acclaimed “2009 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival” including "Drop". The launch celebration will include play readings and appearances by many of the winning authors who will be on hand to sign collection copies after the reading. Wine and Cheese party to follow.
For more information on this exciting event check out Sam French's website or Facebook page. Or, hey, check us out on Broadway World.
Time: Monday, February 22, 2010 5:30 p.m.
Location: The
Drama Book Shop, 250 West 40th Street, New York, NY 10018
The Porch Room is proud to announce this exciting new section of our website - our online script library. When you visit our script library, you will be able to read great original works by members of The Porch Room for the stage and screen.
These scripts are provided online free of charge for your reading pleasure. If you are interested in performing one of stage works, we are happy to offer a royalty free license agreement for any stage work that is not currently represented by a publisher. For plays which are available commercially from a publisher, we provide a link to where you can purchase it.
Interested in optioning one of our screenplays? Links are provided to put you directly in touch with its author.
There are currently seven scripts available in the library:
Drop by Pete Barry & J. Michael DeAngelis (Stage, available from Samuel French)
Reunion Special by J. Michael DeAngelis (Stage)
Tricks of the Trade by John P. Dowgin (Stage)
Focus by Pete Barry (Film)
Gravity Hill by Pete Barry (Film)
Reality Television by J. Michael DeAngelis (Film)
Turing Test by Pete Barry (Film)
If you enjoy what you read, or if you have success producing a Porch Room production, please consider leaving us a small donation. This not only helps keep our website and online script library up and running, but the funds will help us continue to bring you great theater and film works for little or no cost!
Check back regularly for new scripts and please tell us what you think! Feedback: info@porchroom.com.
The New Jersey Association of Community Theaters (NJACT) has named The Porch Room's 2008 evening of original short plays, Accidents Happen, the OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF AN ORIGINAL PLAY at the 2009 Perry Awards!
Accidents Happen took home three awards total:
Also receiving recognition were our producing partners, Circle Players Theater, who took home a total of six Perry Awards! Our sincere thanks to our friends at Circle, who we hope to be working with again very soon!!
Read more about ACCIDENTS HAPPEN.
Visit the Circle Players web site.
UPDATE: Tales from the Porch: Accidents Happen took home the Perry Award for Outstanding Original Production of the Play. The award was given to Circle Players as producers, writer-directors Pete Barry, J. Michael DeAngelis, John Dowgin and Serena Halley and to Cathy Zouves-Wrobel, director of "taskkill human.exe." Congratulations to all the nominees and a big thank you to Circle Players and NJACT! Look for a full story on the evening's events shortly.
The New Jersey Association of Community Theaters (NJACT) has announced the nominees for the 2009 PERRY AWARDS and the Porch Room's 2008 production of ACCIDENTS HAPPEN (aka "Tales from the Porch") at Circle Players Theater has been nominated for five awards!
Also receiving recognition was Porch Room co-founder John Dowgin for his directorial work on 12 Angry Men, which garnered several nominations for himself and Circle Players.
The Porch Room congratulates all the nominees and sends special thanks to our friends at Circle Players for producing Accidents Happen and their on going support of The Porch Room and original works.
The winners will be announced in September. Watch this space for updates and other news from The Porch Room!
See a complete list of nominees here.
Visit the Circle Players web site.
Read more about ACCIDENTS HAPPEN.
After two Porch Room performances among thirteen finalist short plays, the staff of Samuel French have chosen Drop for inclusion, along with five other shorts, in their 34th Annual Off-Off Broadway Festival Play Collection. The Porch Room is very excited about their first (of hopefully many more) published plays. Many thanks to our many Porch Room fans who came out to see the performances, and special thanks to the entire dedicated staff at Sam French who helped to make this year's festival an incredible experience for everyone involved.
The Samuel French 34th Annual Off Off Broadway Short Play Collection will be published in late 2009/early 2010. Details on how to purchase a copy will be printed here when we have more information.
Be sure to check out some of the great press coverage of the event and The Porch Room's win:
Thanks to the many fans and friends of the Porch Room who came out to see "Drop" as part of the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival last night in New York City.
We are thrilled to announce that of the six plays performed for festival judges last night, "Drop" has been selected to advance to the finals!! We were honored to be in the company of five excellent plays by very talented writers and humbled to have been given the chance to move on. As you can see in the photo we were quite shocked!
If you missed it last night, or want a second viewing, please come out and join on THIS SUNDAY at 4pm at the Mainstage Theater (In the Playwrights Horizons building). Tickets are still available via www.ticketcentral.com. The more fans we have cheering and laughing, the merrier!
Plus - don't forget that the Porch Room still has one more entry in the festival yet to be seen. Join us Saturday at 9pm for Pete Barry's "Nine Point Eight Meters Per Second Per Second" and help us make it two for two!
Get more information on the festival at http://samuelfrenchoobfest.blogspot.com and purchase tickets ($18.00) at Ticket Central!
The shows include talkbacks with the cast and crews, including Porch Room members Pete Barry and J. Michael DeAngelis. Tickets are just $8.00.
For more information check out www.insomniaktheatrecompany.com.
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Samuel French clearly knows
genius when they see it. That's why they have selected not one, but TWO
Porch Room plays, out of hundreds of entries, for this year's Samuel French
Off-Off Broadway Festival. "Drop" by J. Michael DeAngelis
and Pete Barry, and "Nine Point Eight Meters Per Second Per Second",
also by Pete, will be performed at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater with thirty-eight
other short plays. The winner of the competition will be contracted for
publication by Sam French. We'll keep you updated as to dates of performances,
so you can tell your children that you were there when the Porch Room was
finally distributed in print throughout the world, thereby causing the irreversible
corrosion of civil society!
This year, Samuel French is creating a blog of the contest, including interviews with the playwrights. Check it out at Samuel French's Forty Days to Forty Plays Blog.
TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE!
WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 @ 9:00PM - "DROP"
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TICKETS - TICKETCENTRAL.COM
SATURDAY, JULY 18 @ 9:00PM - "NINE POINT EIGHT METERS PER
SECOND PER SECOND"
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UPDATE: Both performances will now be held on the MAIN STAGE at Playwright's Horizons!! It's the same address, just a different theater.
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