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NJPAC Stage Exchange, a partnership with Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey and Yendor Productions, is where cutting-edge new play development meets insightful community dialogue. Featuring prestigious playwrights from New Jersey and plays developed in the Garden State – and panels of artists, scholars, community leaders and newsmakers – each evening will use a work-in-progress to spur discussion on important issues in the state and nation, leading the way to deeper understandings of concerns we all face. Admission is free.

The Talented Tenth by Richard Wesley...

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PLEASE NOTE: This event is sold out.

NJPAC Stage Exchange, a partnership with Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey and Yendor Productions, is where cutting-edge new play development meets insightful community dialogue. Featuring prestigious playwrights from New Jersey and plays developed in the Garden State – and panels of artists, scholars, community leaders and newsmakers – each evening will use a work-in-progress to spur discussion on important issues in the state and nation, leading the way to deeper understandings of concerns we all face. Admission is free.

The Talented Tenth by Richard Wesley

When it premiered in New York in 1991, The Talented Tenth was a departure for Newark-born Richard Wesley, who lives in Montclair. His previous plays depicted the street life of poor residents of Newark, while The Talented Tenth is about a band of “buppie” Howard University graduates dwelling in New Jersey’s upper middle class. Wesley makes a number of predictions in the play that bear revisiting 20 years later.

Promotional partners: Howard Universit y Alumni Association, Women in Media-Newark, New Jersey NAACP, North Jersey Hampton University Alumni Chapter

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