PERFORMANCE CALENDAR
Welcome back!
I’M back—from my 16-day, 2 show, 8-venue, 907-mile tour of Eastern Kansas. A native Midwesterner, I’ve missed seeing horizon—and I stared at plenty out there! Wonderful audiences, too. Everything was a joy. (Well, not the first day’s travel, but the rest more than made up for those late planes and missed connections.)
I’ve mostly caught up on all the correspondence and unpacking and record-keeping that every tour brings, and am back in the saddle—my ergonomic desk chair—seeking new bookings. Got a couple, so far, listed below.
I’m already reviewing my script for Places, Please, Act One, the piece I introduced in April: four times in New Jersey and three in Kansas. I’m excited to be returning with it to Block Island; bringing it to Mennonite/s Writing Conference 10, in Winnipeg; and finishing up the month with its performance at NYC’s singular Drama Book Shop, a gathering place for actors since 1917. The show’s namesake, Warren Kliewer’s newly published Places, Please, Act One: Poems around and about theatres, will be on sale there, too. AND Warren, my late husband, now has a website (a work in progress): warrenkliewer.com .
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Descriptions of Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire; Places, Please, Act One; and The Bedquilt have their own pages on this site. Briefer descriptions of The Revolt of “Mother,” My Summer Vacation, and Halloween Hauntings are at the end of this calendar. (You’ll need to scroll a looooong way 😊.)
THE CALENDAR
Performances free unless noted.
🎭 Places, Please, Act One
Saturday, June 7, 4:00 p.m.
Island Free Library
9 Dodge Street, Block Island, RI 02807
(401) 466-3233
circ@islandfreelibrary.org
🎭 Places, Please, Act One
Friday, June 13 – Sunday, June 15
Mennonite/s Writing Conference 10
Canadian Mennonite University
500 Shaftesbury Blvd. Winnipeg Manitoba R3P 2N2 www.cmu.ca/mennonites-writing
🧵 The Bedquilt
Tuesday, June 24, 1:00 p.m.
Learning in Retirement at Iona University (LIRIC)
New Rochelle, NY: private booking
Please contact me at (201) 863-6436 or ruedelarue@aol.com
🎭 Places, Please, Act One
At NYC’s fabled Drama Book Shop!
Monday, June 30, 7:30 p.m.
266 West 39th Street 10018 (212) 944-0595 https://www.eventbrite.com/o/drama-book-shop-52007752603
Free with purchase of Warren Kliewer’s Places, Please, Act One: Poems around and about theatres ($11.95)
Limited seating; reservations recommended
🥛Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire
Tuesday, July 15, 5:30 p.m.
Rehoboth Beach Public Library
226 Rehoboth Avenue, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971 (302) 227-8044 https://rehoboth.lib.de.us/
🌞 My Summer Vacation
Thursday, July 31, 6:30
Oliver Wolcott Library
160 South Street, Litchfield, CT 06759 (860) 567-8030 https://www.owlibrary.org/
🥛Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire
Friday, August 22, 6:00 or 7:00 p.m.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Women's Consortium
Johnstown, NY 12095
More information to come
🏠 The Revolt of “Mother”
Wednesday, September 10, 5:30 p.m.?
Medfield Public Library and Medfield Council on Aging
VENUE: 1 Ice House Road, Medfield, MA 02052 CALL: Library (508) 359-4544 https://www.medfieldpubliclibrary.org/
🏠 The Revolt of “Mother”
Sunday, September 14, 2:00 p.m.
Suffern Free Library
210 Lafayette Avenue, Suffern, NY 10901 (845) 357-1237 www.suffernfreelibrary.org
🏠 The Revolt of “Mother”
Wednesday, September 17, 1:00 p.m.
Cape May City Library
720 Franklin Street, Cape May, NJ 08204 (609) 884-9568 https://cmclibrary.org/about-the-library/locations/capemaycity
🎃 Halloween Hauntings
Sunday, October 19, 1:00 p.m.
Wood-Ridge Historical Society
Bianchi House, 111 First Street, Wood-Ridge, NJ 07075 (201) 939-0202, option 2 https://www.njwoodridge.org/departments/woodridge-historical-society
Would you like to bring a performance to your library, club, or home? I’ll travel anywhere. Just write or call to ask (ruedelarue@aol.com, 201-863-6436).
🌞 ABOUT MY SUMMER VACATION
The Nice People: a charming young couple brings mystery to a rustic resort: that is, they seem nice . . . but . . .? By H. C. Bunner Miss Esther’s Guest: oh, dear—is not the one she asked for. By Sarah Orne Jewett
🏠 ABOUT THE REVOLT OF “MOTHER”
Long ago, Adoniram Penn promised his wife that he would build a proper house on their New England farm. He even pointed out the spot. That was early in their marriage—two children ago. Now, as their eldest prepares for her wedding, the family still crams into the old, shabby cottage . . . and Father is building a barn where the new house belongs. It’s the last straw for Mother, and Father’s in for a surprise. By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
🎃 ABOUT HALLOWEEN HAUNTINGS
The Shadows on the Wall: in the wake of a sudden mysterious death, four siblings are drawn to a familiar but menacing New England parlor. By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman The House That Was Not lures a naive new bride over the bleak Nebraska prairie. By Elia Wilkinson Peattie
