Women's Work 2012

May 4 to 20

For the sixth year running, Tennessee Women's Theater Project returns to the Looby Theater beginning Friday May 4, with its annual Women's Work festival of performing and visual arts created by women. Running through Sunday May 20, the festival cuts a broad swath across styles and genres to offer eleven completely different programs: poetry and essays, one-woman shows, staged readings of new plays, dance, music and a display of visual art works in the theater lobby. This year's festival opens with a big first for the company: the debut public presentation of Witness, a new play created for TWTP by the widely known playwright and actor Regina Taylor.

Read Jef Ellis's preview at BroadwayWorld.com

Read the Critic's Pick by Martin A. Brady in the Nashville Scene

Read Fiona Soltes's Preview in The Tennessean

Read the extended preview by Fiona Soltes in The Tennessean.

All tickets $5. All-show pass $35

Click here to download a printable flier

Weekend Three Lineup:

May 17, 7:30 pm — Essays and Storytelling: Past Imperfect, by Lisa Berryhill; monologues by Edith Costanza; Banana Pudding, Knitmares, Thing Blindness and The Messenger, by Karen Trotter Elley; The Story of my Life (So Far?), by Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz and Cancer-free, by Heidi Petak

May 18, 7:30 pm — Staged Reading: Hunger in Paradise, a play by Mary McCallum

May 19, 7:30 pm — Theater: Ponder Anew: A WWII Warrior’s Story, by Carol Ponder with Robert Kiefer

May 20, 2:30 pm — Staged Readings/One Woman Show: The House, by Robyn Brooks; Superball, by Pamela Stansberry; Between Lives, by Judy Klass; The West Bank Zoo, by Christine C. Mather and Childbirth Methods/LaLeche League, by Janet Schlapkohl

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