(FREEHOLD, NJ) -- Center Players of Freehold will host a new dramatic reading of award-winning playwright Gary Morgenstein’s explosive drama Free Palestine about academic freedom, political correctness and the perils of parenting on Sunday, November 6 at 2:00pm.
Directed by Bernice Garfield-Szita, the reading features Jackie Kusher (Adam Seitz); Tracy Howard (Estie Seitz); Tavea Sanderson (Vanessa Bickford); Arthur Gregory Pugh (Reggie Bickford); TJ Coan (Preston Tyler) and Kristina McKinney (Nadia Ruiz), with Jane DeNoble handling stage directions.
There will be a talkback following the reading. Tickets are $10 and available at centerplayers.org. The play premiered September 4 at Congregation Agudath Achim in Bradley Beach to a sold-out audience.
Gary Morgenstein’s novels and plays have been featured in national media from The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Parade Magazine, the New York Post, and Sports Illustrated to NPR. An award-winning playwright, his award-winning (three 2022 Perry Awards including Best Original Play) multi-generational drama A Tomato Can’t Grow in the Bronx about a Bronx Jewish working class family in the tumultuous 1960s will premiere December 2-17 at the Chain Theater in Manhattan. Morgenstein’s Broadway World award-winning (for Best Play) A Black and White Cookie, depicting the unlikely friendship between a conservative African American newsstand owner and a politically radical Jew, premiered this summer at New York City’s The Tank. An accomplished novelist, his seven novels include the critically-acclaimed dystopian political trilogy beginning in 2098 after America and the West have lost World War Three, A Mound Over Hell (“1984 Meets Shoeless Joe”), A Fastball for Freedom (“a dystopian Field of Dreams”) and the upcoming A Dugout to Peace, from bhcpress.com.
Center Players is located at 35 South Street in Freehold, New Jersey.
