Playhouse on Park will host the third in a series of staged readings on March 3 in West Hartford.

Chicago-based writer Jeffrey Sweet will share Kunstler of part of Playhouse on Park’s new reading series, Playwrights on Park. Submitted photo

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Playwrights on Park Reading Series presents Kunstler by American Theatre Critics Association and Outer Critics Circle Award prizewinner Jeffrey Sweet on Tuesday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m.

This is the third staged reading featured in Playwrights on Park, Playhouse on Park’s new reading series. This series is an exciting opportunity for emerging and established playwrights to bring the earliest incarnations of their plays directly to the Playhouse on Park audience. There will be a talk back with the playwright and the cast immediately following the reading. Audience members will be encouraged to complete an anonymous response form at the conclusion of the evening.

Kunstler depicts the radical attorney William Kunstler shortly before what will be his last birthday party. A young black woman, a law student named Kerry, introduces him at a seminar to speak of his legal work. As Kunstler reflects on his tumultuous career, Kerry objects to some of his recent decisions. In turn, the session develops into a confrontation between the two.

A veteran of the Chicago Theatre renaissance, Jeffrey Sweet (The Value of Names, American Enterprise, Flyovers) has created plays, musicals and other projects since 1979, winning the Jeff (Chicago’s Tony) and American Theatre Critics Association prizes in the process. Sweet’s off-Broadway musical, What About Luv?, featured Nathan Lane and won the Outer Critics Circle Award.

The staged reading is Tuesday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $5, general admission. For more information, go to the Playhouse on Park website (www.playhouseonpark.org), call by phone (860-523-5900 x10), or stop by the box office (244 Park Road, West Hartford, CT).

Want to partake in Playwrights on Park? Submit a full script and character breakdown in PDF format to sbratt@playhousetheatregroup.org or Sasha Bratt, Playwrights on Park Reading Series, c/o Playhouse Theatre Group, 244 Park Road, West Hartford, CT 06119. Connecticut-based playwrights are strongly encouraged to submit.