Flux Sundays
It all begins with our weekly play development workshop, Flux Sundays. Every Sunday when not in production, Flux’s growing community of actors, directors, and playwrights meets to lightly stage new scenes from plays in development. Over the course of a year, Flux Sundays develops over 30 plays, and deepens our relationship with over 75 artists.
Click here to read updates from our most recent sessions.
Interested in joining us? Email our Artistic Director at gus@fluxtheatre.org.
Food:Soul
What if you’re hungry for both food and theatre? That’s where Food:Soul, Flux’s potluck play reading series, comes in. We take a play we’re passionate about developing, rehearse it for 20 hours, and then share it with you over home-cooked food. Cooking a good meal, like making a new play, takes time, careful process, and the right company to share it with – so join us for Food:Soul, and come hungry!
Past Food:Souls include:
Volleygirls by Rob Ackerman
Narrator 1 by Erin Brown
Pretty Theft by Adam Szymkowicz
This Storm is What We Call Progress by Jason Grote
ForePlay
Sometimes, you need a warm up for the full production. With Flux’s exploratory play reading series ForePlay, our community of artists riff on the themes of our upcoming shows through newly commissioned short plays. Past ForePlays have wrestled with the themes of beauty and theft from Pretty Theft, or re-imagined the characters of A Midsummer Nights Dream. ForePlay gives you a chance to connect with our wider community of artists, and deepen your experience of our full productions. So let’s get it on.
Past ForePlays include:
Poetic Larceny, inspired by Adam Szymkowicz’s Pretty Theft
The Imagination Compact, inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Dream Project, inspired by Calderon’s La Vida Es Sueno
Have Another
Want to see the plays we’re working on at Flux Sundays? Then come Have Another with Flux! This series takes our favorite Sunday scenes and stages them at Jimmy’s #43, a great bar in the East Village. Local microbrews pair perfectly with our locally grown short scenes. Have Another is our way of opening up our development process to you in the fun and casual atmosphere of a bar.
Click here to read about our recent installments of Have Another.
Annual Retreats
Every year, Flux members and some guest artists escape the city for a week to reinvigorate our company and explore potential future projects. The retreats take place in Nazareth, PA at a beautiful venue called Little Pond. Little Pond is owned by Bill George, the founder of Touchstone Theatre, and his wife Bridget. August 2009 marked our 4th annual retreat.