Upcoming Premiere
We are thrilled to announce that Collective Member Courtney Emerson has expanded her 2023 New Worlds Festival play, "Lights Over Kansas", into a full-length production.
📅 Performance Dates: January 24–26, 2025
📍 Venue: Staten Island Playhouse
About the Play
"Lights Over Kansas" - It’s the summer of 1972 in the small, quiet town of Eureka, Kansas. Chief Holloway is sure that the most harrowing part of his night shift will be putting up with the police department’s newest recruit, the overly eager Sergeant Thomas, and the incessant questioning from his nosy secretary, Jeanette. When calls start coming in about strange lights flying through the night sky, Holloway, Thomas, and Jeanette must figure out how to keep the town they love safe from the unknown.
Join us for this highly anticipated premiere and experience the next chapter of Lights Over Kansas.
UNFORGETTABLE PLAYS
in a Forgotten Borough
Our Mission: Women’s voices have long been muffled, silenced, misheard, and appropriated. The WPC is hoping to play one small part in their steady amplification.
Our Vision: WPC wishes to collaborate and grow as a sisterhood of artists and to turn the Not Forgotten Play Festival into a mainstay of the Staten Island creative community as an annual event.
Our Values: Showcasing original, contemporary plays which is essential to any healthy and vibrant local arts community.
Playwrights are in need of places to sharpen their skills. Great plays can grow out of festivals such as this one.
-2023 Audience Member
Diverse voices, amplifying women writers and directors especially. New works ignite the imagination!
-2023 Audience Member
Super organized and diverse play offerings! Fun night of theater!
-2023 Audience Member
The amount of people involved in a local creative endeavor, some outstanding writing and performances -- I am glad I was there
-2022 Audience Member