• Welcome to the HRC Showcase Theatre Billy & Ray

    by Mike Bencivenga
    Subsequently given a full production at the Vineyard Theatre, NYC, October–November 2014, directed by Garry Marshall

  • Welcome to the HRC Showcase Theatre Hellman v. McCarthy

    by Brian Richard Mori
    Given full productions at the Abingdon Theater Company, NYC, Spring 2014; Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills, February 2015; and filmed as a TV movie, October 2014–all featuring Dick Cavett playing himself.

  • Welcome to the HRC Showcase Theatre

    The Spanish Prayer Book

    by Angela J. Davis
    Subsequently given a full production at The Road Theatre on Magnolia in North Hollywood, September–November, 2019

  • Welcome to the HRC Showcase Theatre So You Can Look Ahead

    by Edward Morgan
    Subsequently given a virtual international reading in June, 2020, produced by Regent’s University, London and Gedenkort-t4, Berlin, featuring Giovanni Pucci, a standout in our HRC reading.
HRC Showcase Theatre: Presenting staged readings as a vehicle for the development of original plays.
HRC Showcase Theatre would like to thank all those who helped make our 2022 season a success:Allen Phelps and The Theater Barn, for providing a beautiful space and set pieces for our readings. Joe Sicotte for lighting and sound. Our volunteers: Michelle Sweet, Linda and Phil Halpern, and Paula Kaplan-Reiss who gave their time and energy to help wherever they were needed. Our generous donors: Jack Garrity and Tom Rosato, Doris Fromberg, Naomi Spatz and Steven Somkin, Howard and Shirley Shapiro, Richard Gotti, and Richard Sheldon. Our Board members, who helped with publicity and served in many capacities on the day of each reading. Finally, our loyal audiences, who welcomed us to the Berkshires, attending our readings and talkbacks from May through September, offering unwavering encouragement and suppot.
Please keep in touch on this website (hrctheatre.com), where we will announce plans for next season, and if you have not already done so, please sign our email list on the Contact Page. If you would like to join our Board, serve as a Contest Judge or Volunteer we would love to hear from you.
We look forward to welcoming you back. Until then stay safe and be well.
 Barbara Waldinger, Artistic Director, HRC Showcase Theatre

Mission of HRC Showcase Theatre

The long-standing aim of HRC Showcase Theatre is to foster excellence in playwriting. This mission is fulfilled by the selection of full-length, original American plays in a rigorous, national competition. The chosen plays receive dynamic script-in-hand presentations with professional actors staged by a professional director after extensive dramaturgical analysis and revelatory rehearsals. Each play is elevated by the interaction of audience, playwright, actors, and director in post-play discussions. This process aids the further development of the artistic work and serves as an important step toward future productions of these plays.
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and administered in Columbia County by the Greene County Council on the Arts dba CREATE Council for the Arts. This program is made possible (in part) with funding provided by the Hudson River Bank and Trust Foundation.
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