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"Playwright Shirley Lauro writes without polemical agenda, instead, simply and directly moving us with emotionally overwhelming dramatic power on topics historical, inter-racial, inter-cultural and vital to women."   

-FRANCE SOIR, Paris, France

Samuel French:
"A PIECE OF MY HEART" with over 2000 productions, was named among our top produced plays world wide in 2017. " (For the second consecutive year; includes both plays and musicals.)
-Nathan Collins, President
1/31/18

 A Piece of My Heart by Shirley Lauro is an international classic, with productions in such countries as South Africa, Ireland, Israel, Germany, England, Scotland, Canada, Turkey and throughout the United States. 

New York premiere: Manhattan Theatre Club
New York Premiere: Manhattan Theatre Club

UPCOMING...

April 22-29, 2023
The Oast Theatre
Kent, UK

RECENT PRODUCTIONS...

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Texas State University
February, 2021
ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT now in its 4th year in Tel Aviv, Israel

Genesis Theatrical Productions is proud to announce the Chicago premiere of The Radiant by acclaimed playwright, Shirley Lauro. This powerful and poignant play portrays the tempestuous life of scientist, Marie Curie (nee Sklodowska), struggling for acceptance in turn of the century Europe.

A PIECE OF MY HEART...

RECENT...

A PIECE OF MY HEART by Shirley Lauro

A PIECE OF MY HEART - Over 1000 productions. Notable productions 2017: The Onomatopoeia Theatre Company, NYC and Little Spoon, Big Spoon, NYC, Wellesley Repertory Professional Theatre Company; 2016: North Coast Rep, Solana Beach, CA; The Annie Russell Theatre, Winter Park, FL; Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA (in honor of Veterans Day); The Weekend Theater, Little Rock, AK, Spokane's "Stage Left Theater" and Vietnam Monologues from A PIECE OF MY HEART at "Monologue Slam" in London.

Scenes from Israeli production of ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT in Tel Aviv, March 2016
DOWNEY, CA. “Speckled Birds" WORLD PREMIERE, Emerson Theatre, April 2016
CLARENCE DARROW'S LAST TRIAL, Ferguson Fine Arts Theatre, Freeport IL, March 2016
Clarence Darrow's Last Trial
Billingham Players, Billingham. UK
February 2012
 
OPEN ADMISSIONS produced in evening of "Summer Scenes" together with Guares: "House of Blue Leaves", Inge's "Dark at the Top of the Stairs", Norman's "Getting Out", Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya", and Ibsen's "The Dolls House". Summer, 2016
OPEN ADMISSIONS: Pearson's publication - "Higher Learning: Reading and Writing about College"
THE CONTEST at Brandeis University

Upcoming production of THE CONTEST, Shirley Lauro's first play, at Brandeis University. Opens November 2015

OPEN ADMISSIONS
at
ACTORS' WAREHOUSE
608 N. Main St., Gainesville, FL 32601
Directed by Amanda Edwards
Oct. 23 - Nov. 2, 2014
Talk-Back Session October 24

Speranza's Production of A PIECE OF MY HEART
opens May 22nd and runs through June 1st
Thurs/Fri/Sat @ 8pm
Sat 5/24 @ 3pm
Sun 6/1 @ 3pm
Barrow Mansion
Jersey City, NJ

Syracuse University has selected ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT as the Drama Department's Summer Study Abroad production project for THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL.

ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT centers on four German Gentile girls living in a village near Berlin, and coming of age during the reign of The Third Reich.

Opens August 4th at The Quaker Meeting House in Edinburgh.

A Piece of My Heart
by Shirley Lauro

September, 2013
Red Barn Theatre
Holland, MI

"...[a] rollercoaster of emotions displayed onstage"
-PEG MCNICHOL
The Holland Sentinel
Posted Sep 19, 2013
Read more: http://www.hollandsentinel.com/features/x1843591584/War-drama-brutal-tender-funny-true#ixzz2gUVxqix8Holland Sentinel,

THE RADIANT February 21 – March 10, 2013, The Theater at the 14th Street Y, NYC

THE RADIANT By Shirley Lauro Directed by Melanie Moyer Williams at Red Fern Theatre Company, NYC Feb/Mar 2013

PHOTOGRAPH by MICHAEL PALMA

A PIECE OF MY HEART, Ramshein Air Base, Germany

The production was presented by the Little Black Box, Kaiserslautern Military Community.

"Come ready to leave behind a piece of yourself, because 'A Piece of My Heart' is a life-changing theatrical experience."
-Joanie Ralston and Rachel Clark, Contributing writers.


THE RADIANT at National Arts Club, New York, NY

The Radiant by Shirley Lauro June, 2012
Starring award-winning actress Angelica Page, The Radiant is set one hundred years ago in Paris, and centers on the tempestuous, love-torn life of Marie Curie.

Blue Valley High School, Stilwell, KA

"In Shirley Lauro’s drama, A Piece of My Heart, we are given a glimpse into the fear, horror, confusion, and scarring of war, from the unique viewpoint of six female Vietnam veterans. Director Dan C. Schmidt and his cast...capture it all, with remarkably deep and intense portrayals of the women. "

LIVING THEATRE
Presents A Special Engagement

A PIECE OF MY HEART
by Shirley Lauro

2/19-2/29, 2012

21 Clinton Street
New York, NY

ARTSWEST Seattle, WA

ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT speaks directly with a warning for today. Inspired by interviews with German Gentile women, and set during and after the Third Reich, the play is both stylistic and surrealistic, sweeping through the women's teen years and young adulthood during the Holocaust and then beyond. The Nazi Regime impacts the women's lives as they struggle over education, work, religion, marriage and motherhood. Making overwhelmingly hard choices, they survive or succumb to Hitler's Reign and are changed forever.

ARTSWEST All Through The Night JAN 18 — FEB 12, 2012

UWM's 2011-2012 season opens in October with Shirley Lauro's A Piece of My Heart. For more information, visit http://arts.uwm.edu/theatre.

A Piece of My Heart
by Shirley Lauro
directed by Erin Vlasaty
Nov. 11-20, 2011

RECENT PUBLICATION...

Shirley Lauro channels class, race and religious prejudice in in three newly published works: "ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT,”
“SPECKLED BIRDS” and “CLARENCE DARROW'S LAST TRIAL.”

TRIPLE PLAY with Playwright SHIRLEY LAURO

The New Press presents

FRONT LINES: Political Plays by American Women
Alexis Greene / Shirley Lauro, Editors


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The New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts & Media honored FRONT LINES: Political Plays by American Women as one of 5 honorees at their March 2009 Biennial Collaboration Award celebration.

RECENT PRODUCTIONS...

Presentation of
"ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT"
March 20, 2011
Theater of the Mind,
Arts Center, Sarasota FL

The Red Fern Theatre - New York Premiere...

All Through the Night
By SHIRLEY LAURO
Directed by Melanie Moyer Williams

ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT will receive its New York Premiere October 1-25, 2009 at The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater ( 5 West 64th Street @ Central Park West)

East Tennessee State University Division of Theatre and Dance. Production dates November 11-14 at 7:30 and 15 at 2:00. directed by Bobby Funk.

THE AMERICAN CENTURY THEATER
A Piece of My Heart by Shirley Lauro
November 6 - 21, 2009
Washington, DC 20001

A Piece of My Heart chosen for performance by Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation
at Vietnam Women's Memorial on Veterans Day, 2009

TURNING POINTS: a new play festival

Monday, November 9, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.
Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce St.

10 new short plays by Paula Cizmar, Glenda Frank, Leah Kornfeld Friedman, Anne Hamilton, Shirley Lauro, Carol K. Mack, Sheilah Rae, Deborah Savadge, Joan Vail Thorne, Leonora Thuna.

Premiering:
AUDITION...by Shirley Lauro, with Andrea Mezvinsky & Laura Anderson; Melanie Moyers, Director

The Actors Studio
432 W 44 St., New York City
April 14, 2008 6 PM
"A Jeff Recommended Play"

"...inspired by true coming-of-age stories of four young German, Christian women who survive or succumb to an ever more powerful Nazi Government that comes to control their very existence..."

"A SIGNIFICANT SERIOUS AND INTENSELY MOVING NEW WORK BY A PROVEN BROADWAY PLAYWRIGHT...A SHOW THAT'S BOTH RUMINATIVE AND REVELATORY, SMART AND EMOTIVE, IMMERSIVE AND DISTANCING. AND MOST IMPRESIVE OF ALL, THIS IS A PLAY WITH ENOUGH DARING TO LOOK AT THE POLARITIES OF WAR WITH A STRONG SENSE OF THE COMPLEXITY OF HUMAN LIMITATIONS...A COMPELLING NEW PLAY."
Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

"...CONTAINS A POWERFUL LESSON FOR TODAY."
Chicagocritic.com

Clarence Darrow's Last Trial
2006 Carbonella Awards Nominee