{"id":18863,"date":"2018-04-18T11:43:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=18863"},"modified":"2018-04-18T11:43:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:43:35","slug":"18863_civics-and-humanities-for-non-majors-stirs-industry-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/2018\/04\/18\/18863_civics-and-humanities-for-non-majors-stirs-industry-buzz\/","title":{"rendered":"Civics and Humanities for Non-Majors Stirs Industry Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--> <\/p>\n<p>The Department of Theatre and Dance&#8217;s ambitious program, The New Works Initiative (NWI), will premiere Jeff Talbott&#8217;s gripping new play <em>Civics and Humanities for Non-Majors <\/em>on Wednesday, April 18 at 7:30 pm in the L. Howard Fox Theatre. The production, which tells the story of two groups of college students in two different times trying to organize politically, is the result of a year long commission awarded by NWI, giving Talbott and Director Wes Grantom the opportunity to shape the new play in collaboration with Montclair students.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> <\/p>\n<p><em>Civics and Humanities for Non-Majors<\/em><span> has already received considerable theatre industry attention- even before its opening. The play is a finalist for the prestigious 2018 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O&#8217;Neill Theatre Center and Kenneth Jones, playwright and editor for Playbill.com, features the production in his blog. You can read Jones&#8217; article by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bykennethjones.com\/college-troupers-cram-jeff-talbotts-civics-humanities-world-premiere-montclair-state-university\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Performances run through the weekend and you can get tickets by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakperfs.org\/event\/new-works-initiative-civics-humanities-non-majors\/2018-04-18\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Theatre and Dance presents new play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":118863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-190_theatre-dance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}