BHCT’s Reading & Discussion Series pairs readings of plays with an open discussion to explore the ideas raised by the script. The 2023-24 series features plays chosen to bring new ideas and fresh perspectives about science, classic literature, and social change to BHCT audiences. Audiences are invited to stay after each reading to engage in an open discussion to share their experience of the play and hear more about the world of the play from a scholar or dramaturg.
Reading and Discussion Series:
Now Then Again by Penny Penniston
Performance: Sunday September 10th, 2023 at 2:00pm
Studio Theater; Pay What You Want
Directed by Gregory Calhoun
A time-bending love story between two physicists. Described by The Chicago Sun-Times as “a deft little romantic screwball comedy with a very brainy twist. It brings to mind some of Tom Stoppard’s more intellectual theatrical hijinks. But it’s also the kind of work that might have beguiled such 1930s and ’40s era film directors as Frank Capra and Preston Sturges, who probably would have hired Albert Einstein as a script consultant.”
A time-bending love story between two physicists. Described by The Chicago Sun-Times as “a deft little romantic screwball comedy with a very brainy twist. It brings to mind some of Tom Stoppard’s more intellectual theatrical hijinks. But it’s also the kind of work that might have beguiled such 1930s and ’40s era film directors as Frank Capra and Preston Sturges, who probably would have hired Albert Einstein as a script consultant.”
