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November, 2025
CONCERT READING
Atlanta,GA
The Flirt Bar
A Musical
Book By Susan Lambert Hatem
Music and lyrics by AMy ray and Michelle Malone
When heartbroken Bible Belt wife, Honey B. Dews loses everything, she and her book club decide to turn a former Strip Club into The Flirt Bar, where women can go and be flirted with. To pull it off, she has to team up with Raquel Ramone – the hard-singing, god-fearing, gay Greek chorus of a singer who comes with the place.
More details to come.
Past events…
May 10 and 11, 2025
Concert Reading
LA LGBT Center
The Ride
A MusicaL
BOOK By Katherine Nolan
Music by Pete Barry
Lyrics by Pete Barry and Katherine Nolan
The first concert reading of a new musical about grief, love and community activism. Six strangers grapple with life, loss, love and each other while cycling 545 miles over seven days.
More info at www.theridemusical.com
Proceeds support Arts A La Carte and the LA LGBT Center.
March 1, 2025
Reading
ARC Pasadena
Jim and Huck
A new play with Music
By Susan Lambert Hatem
Ten years after their infamous trip down the Mississippi River, formerly enslaved Jim and a grown-up Huckleberry Finn find themselves out West, setting out on a challenging journey to locate Jim’s lost family, encountering dangers, adventures, and surprising strangers, not the least of which is a young Samuel Clemens.
Jim and Huck explores the power of writers, storytelling, and the lost and co-opted stories of history and America.
Proceeds support Arts a La Carte and Pasadena’s Union Station Homeless Services Fire Relief.
Co-Directed by Sergio Perez.
March 28, 2025
The Brick Aux
Brooklyn, NY
The Heart Tells Tales
A Play with music
By omen Kaine
A special reading of a darkly twisted, modern-day play inspired by Edgar Allan Poe.
Directed by Pierce Bunch
Executive Producer: Ruben Anavitate