September 18

VALU-MART
Philadelphia's Flashpoint Theatre,dedicated to producing socially provocative and emotionally resonant works, is workshopping VALU-MART and will host a public reading at Voices & Visions Arts and Culture Bookstore located near Independence. For more information go to Flashpoint's website at www.flashpointtheatre.com or email them at info@flashpointtheatre.org.

September 1-3

BENEATH SHELTON LAUREL
After playing to 14 consecutive sold-out performances last summer, Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre in bringing SHELTON LAUREL back with an encore production that will run in conjunction with sesquicentennial celebration of Mars Hill College, the host of SART. SART has also announced that the North Carolina Humanities Council is funding development of an abridged version of SHELTON LAUREL that will tour North Carolina High Schools and Middle Schools starting this fall. Dates for the Mars Hill production are still to be determined. For more information go to www.sartheatre.com or call 828-689-1384.

October 2

BENEATH SHELTON LAUREL
New York's Abingdon Theatre at 312 West 36th Street will host a public reading at 7pm on Monday, October 2nd. This will be BENEATH SHELTON LAUREL's first exposure outside of North Carolina whre it was extended and set records for attendance last summer. For more information go to
www.abingdontheatre.org or call 212-868-2055.

October 6-22

POUND
The Playwrights Forum in Memphis will mount the sixth full production of POUND and will feature Laurie McIntosh one of Memphis' most accomplished actors in the role of Mary. For more information go to www.playwrights-forum.org or call 901-725-2040.

October 13

BENEATH SHELTON LAUREL
Public Reading in Wheeling's Centre Market by Towngate Theatre.  Time and details to be announced.