JON KLEIN   


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JON KLEIN
Back Story
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Dramatic Anthology
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by Joan Ackermann Courtney Baron Neena Beber Constance Congdon Jon Klein Shirley Lauro Craig Lucas Eduardo Machado Donald Margulies Jane Martin Susan Miller John Olive Tanya Palmer David Rambo Edwin Sanchez Adele Edling Shank Mayo Simon Val Smith. Based
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When Ethan is born in the worst blizzard of the century, two-year-old sister Ainsley nearly sacrifices a toe trying to clear a path for the baby's arrival. That initial gesture of devotion blossoms into a tale of sibling loyalty, rivalry and love that spans two decades. Inspired by Joan Ackermann's narrative "Back Story," each of the eighteen playwrights in this collective creation puts a distinctive spin on Ainsley's and Ethan?s amusing and poignant struggles with life, with each other, and with the phantom dad who abandoned them for the wilds of Alaska
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JON KLEIN
Betty The Yeti
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1994
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Humana Festival 1994: The Complete Plays, ed Marisa Smith, Smith & Kraus, 1994
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Comedy
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In this comic Call of the Wild, a disgruntled logger heads for the woods after losing his job and his wife. Hounded by environmentalists, treed by his family, and baited by the lumber industry, it takes a lonely yeti to finally touch this logger's heart. But what's a mister to do with his myth when everyone wants her--alive or dead? With an acid wit that could strip the bark from a yew tree, Jon Klein weaves this woolly new fable about the ferocious tug of war taking place in Northwest forests
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JON KLEIN
Bunnicula
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Childrens
Youth Audience
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Adapted by Jon Klein from the book by Deborah and James Howe. Lyrics by Jon Klein, Music by Chris Jeffries
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Based on the beloved children's book, this hilariously funny musical tells the story of Harold and Chester, a dog and cat whose comfortable lives are turned upside down upon the arrival of the new family pet, an abandoned rabbit who just might be a juice-sucking vampire bunny! Mayhem ensues as Harold and Chester team up to solve the mystery and protect their unsuspecting humans.
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JON KLEIN
Chance and Necessity
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JON KLEIN
Dimly Perceived Threats To The System
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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1998
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Comedy
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an end of the millennium comedy about a family on the verge of a nervous breakdown
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JON KLEIN
Early Stages
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JON KLEIN
Edgar
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JON KLEIN
Einstein Project, The
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Dramatists Play Service, NY,
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written by Paul D'Andrea and Jon Klein
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a highly theatrical journey into one of the most fascinating minds of the modern age. It rejects iconic clichés about Albert Einstein in order to reveal the true mana dynamic, Shakespearean personality, driven by passion, fear and anger. Theatrical techniques involving movement, music and visual imagesa Japanese tea ceremony, a picnic with physicist ghostsconvey his mental and emotional struggles. Humorous newsreels flicker to show the growing celebrity and absurdity of the Einstein phenomenon. In the happy early days Einstein creates physics on the spot with members of the Uranium Club and spends his free time sailing with his emotionally disturbed son, Edward. But he increasingly finds himself at odds with the new nationalism of Hitlers Nazi Partyespecially when embodied by his chief competition, the brash young genius Werner Heisenberg. Einsteins fear and fury result in the abandonment of Edwardand an escape to America. In the second act, at the height of World War II, Einstein wonders if his old friends are developing atomic weapons for Hitler. Ironically, it is possible that Heisenberg and the other German scientists have successfully resisted such weapons research and trust that Einstein will do the same. But the U.S. Government and ominous rumors from Europe feed Einsteins fear until he breaks down and urges President Franklin Roosevelt to develop atomic weapons for use against Germany. As a result, one of the most famous pacifists of all time is forced to go counter to his own beliefs. And to Einsteins horror, atomic bombs are dropped on a country he didnt even considerJapan. The climax of the play finds Einstein reunited with his mad son, Edward, trying to sail in the atomic storm that he helped unleash. His discovered love for Edward gives him hope that we can stop the storm.
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JON KLEIN
Fault Line
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JON KLEIN
Four Our Fathers
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Samuel French, London, 1991
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Hardy Boys in the Mystery of the Haunted House
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Seattle Childrens Theatre
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JON KLEIN
Hardy Boys in the Secret of Skull Bone Island
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Seattle Childrens Theatre
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JON KLEIN
Life Class: The Last Lesson Of Thomas Eatkins
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JON KLEIN
Losing It
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JON KLEIN
Octopus
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JON KLEIN
Peoria
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JON KLEIN
Private Places
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JON KLEIN
Red And The Black
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Adaptation
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stage version of Stendhal's classic novel
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JON KLEIN
Silent Night
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JON KLEIN
Something To Do With Bolivia
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JON KLEIN
Southern Cross
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(8-17 men, 3-4 women): 11 total
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an epic play that navigates the "river of history" in the Southern United States, uncovering cycles of retribution and deliverance. The paths of many historical figures cross, from the Civil War to the era of Civil Rights. The more familiar stories include General William T. Sherman's March to the Sea, Huey Long's rise and fall, Martin Luther King's struggles in Selma, and the exploitation of Elvis Presley. Lesser known figures also share the stage: defiant landowners, runaway slaves and brave martyrs to the cause of freedom. And a steam boat captain is on hand to contribute a little typical folklore. Historical moments are juxtaposed to show the echoes and resonances of history. For example, the humorous, joyful adventure of a slave who ferried hundreds of people to freedom across the Ohio River, is followed by tear gas and clubs as a freedom marcher attempts to cross the Edmund Pettis Bridge. Finally, all the different stories of the play come together in a chilling finale.
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JON KLEIN
Suggestibility
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Broadway Play Publishing, 2007
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dark comedy
Comedy
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In Jon Klein's dark comedy, three young stockbrokers play out a lethally competitive erotic triangle. Chad seems at first to be merely a boorish seducer but soon emerges as a manipulator extraordinaire, part Iago and part Sammy Glick. He resents co-worker Kenneth, who out-performs him as a salesman, despite Kenneth's pathologically timid, introverted nature. Kenneth's remoteness and his obsession with a woman he has met only on the internet present an irresistible romantic challenge to Shawn, who artfully penetrates his defenses and becomes his lover. Chad wants both Shawn and Kenneth's job, and uses all his wiles to undermine them and their relationship via suggestion and disinformation. It's a slickly written tale of psychic skullduggery ~ Neal Weaver, L A Weekly
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JON KLEIN
T Bone N Weasel
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Dramatists Play Service, Inc., and by TCG in Plays in Process and New Plays USA 4,
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In this comic adventure of life on the lam, T Bone and Weasel, inept partners in petty crime, careen down the back roads of South Carolina until one of them ends up in jail and the other vows to mend his ways
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Toy Soldiers
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Tad Lincoln learns a valuable lesson during the last days of the American Civil War.
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Wishing Well
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