All Access Pass

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Entitles you to a spot at all of the readings and attached receptions. Please note that all seating is general admission.

Cost
Standard: $100
For Subscribers: $50
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2:00 pm May 30, 2026

The Last Night of Ballyhoo

by Alfred Uhry

Run Time: 2 hours 30min incl. a 10min intermission

About the Play

In 1939 Atlanta, Georgia, the social event of the season is Ballyhoo – a part-festival, part-ball for high society members. The Freitag family’s hopes are pinned on the last night of Ballyhoo, in this play full of romantic sparks and family secrets.

Schedule

12:30 PM – Bagel Brunch
2:00 PM – Staged Reading in Goldman Theater

7:30 pm May 30, 2026

Linguicide

by Ali Viterbi

Directed by Hayley Finn

Run Time: 2 hours incl. a 10min intermission

About the Play

After the hit world premiere production of The World to Come, Theater J presents a staged reading of playwright Ali Viterbi’s new play, Linguicide. In 1984, a mother goes door to door campaigning for her 22-year-old son. In 1870, a newlywed couple creates a radical newspaper. In 1939, a young politician proposes to his illicit lover on the brink of war. And in 2055, a student and teacher meet atop all their graves. Linguicide is a love letter to the dying language of Ladino, the families who spoke it, and the worlds they built. It asks: how can a language die? And when it does, what happens to the identity it shaped?

Schedule

5:30 PM – Cocktail Reception & Artist Conversation
7:30 PM – Staged Reading

2:00 pm May 31, 2026

Queens Girls in the World

by Caleen Sinnette Jennings

Directed by Danielle A. Drakes
Starring Deidre Staples

Run Time: 80min

About the Play

It’s summer 1962 in Queens, New York. The sounds of doo-wop music fill the night and 12-year-old Jacqueline Marie Butler is on the verge of adulthood. When Jacqueline’s parents abruptly transfer her to a progressive, predominantly Jewish school in Greenwich Village, she is thrust out of her comfort zone. As one of only four black students, Jacqueline discovers a new city and a whole new world. After having its world premiere at Theater J in 2015 as part of the Women’s Voices Theatre Festival, Queens Girl in the World went on to win awards across North America and have a successful Off-Broadway run. Playwright Caleen Sinnette Jennings went on to write Queens Girl in Africa and Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains.

Schedule

12:30 PM – Bagel Brunch
2:00 PM – Staged Reading
3:30 PM – Artist Conversation

1:00 pm June 6, 2026

The Sisters Rosensweig

by Wendy Wasserstein

Directed by Jess Chayes

Run Time: 2 hours 45min incl. a 10min intermission

About the Play

The sisters Rosensweig are three extraordinary Brooklyn-born Jewish women. Sara lives an ostensibly happy, man-free life in London with her intelligent daughter, Tess. Pfeni is an eccentric travel writer who pursues an unsatisfactory relationship with Geoffrey, a bisexual theatre director. And Gorgeous has the perfect husband and family in Massachusetts, where she pursues a ‘funsy’ career as a radio agony aunt. When they meet up at Sara’s home in Holland Park reawakened familial bonds cause each woman to confront her past and her future.

Schedule

1:00 PM – Staged Reading
3:45 PM – Dessert Reception & Artist Conversation

7:30 pm June 6, 2026

I Know of Plagues

by Kendell Pinkney

Directed by Reginald L. Douglas

Run Time: 2 hours 30min incl. a 10min intermission

About the Play

The Shapiro-Rosenblatt-Cunningham clan has gathered in White Plains, New York to do what it does every Passover: commemorate, sanctify, dispute, remember, rehearse, indict, celebrate and “passively regress” the ancient feast of Jewish liberation. When estranged daughter Skye returns home with an unexpected guest and a pet-project in tow, everyone is forced to confront long simmering grievances and repressed truths that threaten to wreck the holiday, and maybe the family, for good.I Know of Plagues excavates the unique ways that only family can fracture when race, politics, religion, and generational grudges can no longer be kept at bay.

Schedule

6:00 PM – Cocktail Reception & Artist Conversation
7:30 PM – Staged Reading