{"id":14912,"date":"2016-10-07T16:06:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T20:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=14912"},"modified":"2016-10-14T10:08:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T14:08:41","slug":"pocono-mountains-theater-company-in-partnership-with-esu-department-of-theatre-to-present-staged-reading-of-laughing-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/pocono-mountains-theater-company-in-partnership-with-esu-department-of-theatre-to-present-staged-reading-of-laughing-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Pocono Mountains\u2019 Theater Company in Partnership with ESU Department of Theatre to Present Staged Reading of LAUGHING WILD"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDITOR\u2019S NOTE:<\/strong> The staged reading of Laughing Wild has been postponed until the spring semester. Details will follow when a new date is selected.<\/span><\/p>\n

Laughing Wild<\/em>, a comedy by Tony-Award winning playwright Christopher Durang, has been selected to be the second in a series of staged readings being presented through a partnership between the Pocono Mountains\u2019 Theater Company and East Stroudsburg University\u2019s Department of Theatre.<\/p>\n

The comedy will be presented Saturday, October 22 at 7 p.m. in Smith-McFarland Theatre of ESU\u2019s Fine and Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg, Pa.<\/p>\n

Laughing Wild <\/em>gives the audience different perspectives of two troubled people trying to live in the chaos of New York City. A hysterical and unusual piece, the comedy examines people\u2019s quest for happiness in a heightened reality.<\/p>\n

Durang, who won the 2013 Tony Award for Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike<\/em>, is best known for the play Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Daniel Talbott, artistic associate of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and the artistic director of the Lucille Lortel and NYIT Award-winning Rising Phoenix Rep, will direct the reading. The cast will feature Pamela Shaw and Brian Rueter.<\/p>\n

The reading is recommended for adults and mature high school students and is open to the public at no cost. There is a suggested donation of $5 per reading.<\/p>\n

Reservations for the reading are recommended, but not required. To make a reservation, email SarahT.Schwab@gmail.com<\/a>, and include your name, the title of show, and the number of seats requested.<\/p>\n

The Pocono Mountains\u2019 Theatre Company is a newly formed, 501(c)(3) non-profit theatre company whose mission is to produce and develop diverse new works by American artists, both local and national; to cultivate and develop audiences to support the future patronage of American theater; and to provide a positive collaborative impact to the community, both culturally and financially.<\/p>\n

For more information about the presentation, please check the Pocono Mountains Theater Company website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Laughing Wild”, a comedy by Tony-Award winning playwright Christopher Durang, has been selected to be the second in a series of staged readings being presented through a partnership between the Pocono Mountains\u2019 Theater Company and East Stroudsburg University\u2019s Department of Theatre.<\/p>\n

The comedy will be presented Saturday, October 22 at 7 p.m. in Smith-McFarland Theatre of ESU\u2019s Fine and Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg, Pa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-release","category-theater"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14912"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14924,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912\/revisions\/14924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}