PERFORMANCE CALENDAR
⚡ NEWS FLASH ⚡
I’m performing Places, Please, Act One, At NYC’s fabled Drama Book Shop! Monday, June 30, 7:30 p.m. 266 West 39th Street https://dramabookshop.com/ Free with purchase of Places, Please, Act One: Poems around and about theatres Limited seating; reservations recommended
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Hi. Thanks for dropping by. This page has been quiet for a couple of months . . . but no more:
So far, I’ve performances stretching into fall, in NYS, NJ, MA, RI, DE, KS . . . and Winnipeg, Manitoba!
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I’m most excited about Places, Please, Act One, the spoken-word performance with its own webpage here, which I haven’t done in nearly 25 years. The poems—selections from four volumes—were written by Warren Kliewer: founder and first producing artistic director of The East Lynne Company, my mentor, and my husband of 27 years.
After three bookings in Cape May and Ocean County, New Jersey, libraries, I take Places, Please to Kansas, where it’s the centerpiece of a four-day celebration of Warren’s writing. We’re concurrently celebrating publication of the multi-volume Acting Up, an anthology of Mennonite playwrights in which Warren’s scripts are prominent, and Warren’s Places, Please, Act One: Poems around and about theatres—all to be released by Gelassenheit Publications.
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Descriptions of Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire; Places, Please, Act One; and The Bedquilt are on other pages in this site . . . and if I figure out how to insert links here, you’ll find them easily. Briefer descriptions of The Revolt of “Mother” and Halloween Hauntings are at the end of this calendar. (You’ll need to scroll a looooong way 😊.)
THE CALENDAR
Performances free unless noted.
🥛Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire
Friday, March 14, 11:30 a.m.
Orangetown Jewish Center, NY: private booking
Please contact me at (201) 863-6436 or ruedelarue@aol.com
NEW JERSEY
🎭 Places, Please, Act One
Tuesday, April 1, 6:30 p.m.
Tom’s River Branch, Ocean County Library
101 Washington Street, Toms River Township, NJ 08753
(732) 349-6200
https://theoceancountylibrary.org/Branches/TR/tr.htm
🎭 Places, Please, Act One
Thursday, April 3, 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
🎭 Places, Please, Act One
Friday, April 4, 2:00 p.m.
Little Egg Harbor Branch, Ocean County Library
290 Mathistown Road, Little Egg Harbor Township, NJ 08087
(609) 294-1197
https://theoceancountylibrary.org/Branches/TR/tr.htm
🎭 Places, Please, Act One
Tuesday, April 8, 12:00 p.m.
Secaucus Public Library
1379 Paterson Plank Road, Secaucus, NJ 07094
(201) 863-6436
https://secaucuslibrary.org/
KANSAS
🧵 The Bedquilt
Wednesday, April 16, 3:00 p.m.
Aberdeen Village
Olathe, KS: private booking
🧵 The Bedquilt
Thursday, April 17, 5:30 p.m.
Wamego Public Library
431 Lincoln Avenue, Wamego, KS 66547
(785) 456-9181
info@wamegopubliclibrary.com
🎭 Places, Please, Act One
Saturday, April 19, 2:00 p.m.
Leavenworth Public Library
417 Spruce Street, Leavenworth, KS 66048
(913) 682-5666
https://leavenworthpubliclibrary.org/
🎭 Places, Please, Act One
Friday, April 24, 11:00 a.m.
Kidron Hall
Kidron Bethel Village, 3001 Ivy Drive, North Newton, KS 67117
INFORMATION: Julie Miller Steiner, Juliems@bluestemks.org
🧵 The Bedquilt
Saturday, April 25, 3:30 p.m.
Newton Public Library
223 East 7th, Newton, Kansas 67114
(316) 283-2890
https://www.newtonplks.org/
🧵 The Bedquilt
Monday, April 28, 6:30 p.m.
Winfield Public Library
605 College Street, Winfield, KS 67156
(315) 822-6394
https://wpl.org/
🧵 The Bedquilt
Tuesday, April 29, 1:30 p.m.
Valley Center Public Library
314 East Clay Street, Valley Center, KS 67147
(316) 755-7350
https://valleycenter.scklslibrary.info/
NEW ENGLAND AND EVERY WHICH-WAY
Title and time to be announced
Wednesday, May 21 – Saturday, May 24
American Literature Association Annual Conference
The Westin Copley Place, 10 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02116
Please contact me at (201) 863-6436 or ruedelarue@aol.com
🎭 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
Mennonite/s Writing Conference
Friday, June 13 – Sunday, June 15
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
🥛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/
🥛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
1 Ice House Road, Medfield, MA 02052
Library: (508) 359-4544
https://www.medfieldpubliclibrary.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
For those who don’t find a performance close to home: I’ll travel anywhere. Just write or call to ask (ruedelarue@aol.com, 201-863-6436).
🏠 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 should be. It’s the last straw for Mother, and she’ll do something about it. 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 an unsuspecting new bride across the bleak Nebraska prairie. By Elia Wilkinson Peattie
