Playwrights in an Hour Grant

Center Stage Jackson, Jackson’s community theater, recently received a mini-grant from the Jackson Junior Welfare League, which purchased a new series of theater books for the Jackson District Library.  “Playwrights in an Hour” is a series of 27 slim volumes that are basically “a crash course” in the lives and works of the 27 playwrights represented. Included are the “most produced and studied playwrights in the English language” from Euripides to Shakespeare and from Chekhov and Shaw to August Wilson and Sam Shepherd. Even more contemporary writers like Edward Albee, Sara Ruhl and Theresa Rebeck are covered as well.

Ann Holt, Executive Director of Center Stage Jackson says, “These titles are appropriate for actors, teachers, students, directors, professors, and general theater goers. We are thrilled that the Jackson Junior Welfare League was able to fund the series and that the Jackson District Library partnered with us in making them available to the community.”