THE MUSICAL

Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry In Pyrrhic Symphony, the speaker asks, “Should a poem be the pill or the pharmacy?” And the book replies: Why not both?

The LA Writers’ Workshop Play Reading Series presents six brand-new play readings from local playwrights—Maddox Pennington, Kevin Douglas, Bernardo Cubría, Keiko Green, Christina Pumariega, and Erika Sheffer—at the Kirk Douglas Theatre and REDCAT. This culminates a year-long commission and workshop process with CTG.

3 AM. Saturday. The residents of Crystal Pines Apartments are gathered in the courtyard of the once elegant building. Why are they there,…