Lilly Awards Foundation to Present Reading Series

2/10/2015 12:45pm


The Lilly Awards Foundation will present the Inaugural (3)Plays from The Kilroys’ List: A Reading Series featuring new works by female playwrights Larissa FastHorse, Meg Miroshnik & Laura Schellhardt, with directors Lear deBessonet, Leigh SilvermanLiesl Tommy on three Mondays, March 9, 16 and 23 at 7:00 PM at The Duke on 42nd St (229 W 42nd St).   Admission is free but reservations are recommended  at www.thelillyawards.org. First up will be THE COMPARABLES (Mar 9) by Laura Schellhardt, Directed by Lear deBessonet. Bette runs her own female-dominated agency.  Monica is her loyal second-in-command.  Iris is the savvy new hire.  When Bette's reputation falls under attack, the future of the agency is at stake. Next up will be WHAT WOULD CRAZY HORSE DO? (Mar 16) by Larissa FastHorse, Directed by Liesl Tommy. Set today, the play is about two Native Americans who are facing the extinction of their tribe while the first female leader of the KKK is poised to bring a gentler version of the Klan into the limelight. When the two groups are brought together, they find that sometimes they are asking the same questions. When is race separation racism?  Last up will be THE TALL GIRLS (Mar 23) by Meg Miroshnik, Directed by Leigh Silverman. "The Tall Girls" takes place in Poor Prairie - the dusty, desolate town where fifteen-and-a-half-year-old Jean has been exiled as caretaker for her wild-child cousin, Almeda. It’s a grim, dangerous place to eke out an existence as a teenage girl—until a handsome man with a past arrives, a brand-new basketball in tow. As the town’s girls come together to form a team set on making it out of Poor Prairie, a murky committee of townspeople threatens to stamp out girls' sports altogether.  Press contact: O&M Co (212/695-7400)...