Call for “Bad Bedtime Stories”
One Night Stand Theater is looking for fractured fairy tales and folklore for our April 13 production, a one-night-only evening of staged readings called “Bad Bedtime Stories.” We’re looking for short plays, short stories and poems on the themes of fairy tales, folk tales and children’s stories. Revised, parodied, comedic, dramatic, modernized, satirized, or thought-provoking…send us your take on a timeless tale or two.
The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, February 25; limit 3 plays or stories per writer; send them to Tickets@OneNightStandTheater.org. If we feature your play, story or poem in the show, we offer a small honorarium and two comp tickets for the performance (at Vintage Theatre in Aurora, Colorado). Plays can be new or old; there are no restrictions on whether the pieces have been previously produced.
Learn more about us at https://www.onenightstandtheater.org/. Tell us a story!
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR'S NOTES - James O'Leary
12.12.2024
We’ve selected the plays for our next One Night Stand Theater production, “The Art of Seduction”! Thank you to all the playwrights and writers who sent in their plays and stories for our February 16 evening of seduction and persuasion. Here is our slate of plays designed to tempt and entice you:
—Produce collides with passion in “Lust Amid the Strawberries” by Rosemary FrisinoToohey.
—The first seducer tempts Eve in the Garden of Eden in “Diary of a Snake” by D.J. Jones.
—A roll of quarters and a charitable spirit lead to seduction in “Love on the Edge” by Carl L. Williams.
—Lola comes face to face with her most powerful seducer at 3 a.m. in “Booty Call” by Toby Inoue.
—Two strangers encounter an unlikely seducer on a redeye flight in “When Babies Fly” by Steven Korbar.
—Shopping leads to a familial kind of seduction in “Gift Horse” by Donna Hoke.
—An aspiring writer is seduced by misery in “For Better, For Worse” by D. Borengasser.
12.05.2024
Announcing the themes of our 2025 season! Starting in February, join One Night Stand Theater for our 17th season of staged readings of short plays and stories:
February 16: “The Art of Seduction”
Let us entice you with an evening of love, temptation and persuasion.
April 13: “Bad Bedtime Stories”
An evening of fairy tales, folk tales and children’s stories, modernized and satirized
June 22: “One Night Stand with Wayne Faust”
An evening of sci-fi, humor and light horror from this One Night Stand Theater favorite
August 10: “Dogs and Cats Living Together”
Tales of our favorite pets and the humans who love them
October 5: “Witches Brew”
Back for an encore after 14 years! A cabal of weird and supernatural plays from our feminine side