Nakd Stage Play Reading Series at WPPAC Kicks-Off With Free Reading of Arthur Miller's All My Sons

The White Plains Performing Arts Center is inaugurating a play reading series (actors with scripts in hand) of, in order, the Tony Award-winners for “Best Play” since the award’s creation in 1948. WPPAC will begin this series with a special kick-off reading of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons (which won the Tony Award for “Best Author of a Play” the year before the “Best Play” award was created) on Friday, July 18 at 8pm. As a special opportunity to WPPAC patrons, All My Sons will be presented absolutely free of charge.

After this kick-off reading, one reading a month will be presented, beginning August 1 with Mr. Roberts. Tickets for the remainder of these readings will be only $10 each.

WPPAC chose the given format as a device to rekindle memories of great, award-winning plays that serve as the foundation for contemporary theatre but which may not get produced much anymore because they are perceived as outdated or “unknown” as well as newer works down the line that today’s audiences may not have been able to see. These stories warrant being told and, in this light, WPPAC can focus on the powerful words and intentions of amazing playwrights without encumbering and costly production value (i.e. no sets, costumes or props). IT'S ALL ABOUT THE WORDS.

About All My Sons: During the war Joe Keller and Steve Deever ran a machine shop which made airplane parts. Deever was sent to prison because the firm turned out defective parts, causing the deaths of many men. Keller went free and made a lot of money. The twin shadows of this catastrophe and the fact that the young Keller son was reported missing during the war dominate the action. The love affair of Chris Keller and Ann Deever, the bitterness of George Deever returned from the war to find his father in prison and his father's partner free, are all set in a structure of almost unbearable power. The climax showing the reaction of a son to his father is fitting conclusion to a play electrifying in its intensity.

While this event is FREE of charge, reservations are strongly recommended. To reserve, please call (914) 328-1600 or click here.