{"id":206111,"date":"2018-04-19T17:55:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T21:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/?p=206111"},"modified":"2018-04-19T17:55:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T21:55:30","slug":"civics-and-humanities-for-non-majors-stirs-industry-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/2018\/04\/19\/civics-and-humanities-for-non-majors-stirs-industry-buzz\/","title":{"rendered":"Civics and Humanities for Non-Majors Stirs Industry Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\u00a0<em>Civics and Humanities for Non-Majors<\/em> on Wednesday, April 18 at 7:30 pm in the L. Howard Fox Theater. 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><em>Civics and Humanities for Non-Majors<\/em>\u00a0has 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 Theater Center and Kenneth Jones, playwright and editor for Playbill.com, features the production in his blog.<\/p>\n<p>Read Jones&#8217; article\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bykennethjones.com\/college-troupers-cram-jeff-talbotts-civics-humanities-world-premiere-montclair-state-university\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Performances run through the weekend and get your tickets\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakperfs.org\/event\/new-works-initiative-civics-humanities-non-majors\/2018-04-18\/\">now.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Theatre and Dance presents new play&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":206112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206113,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206111\/revisions\/206113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}