{"id":255837,"date":"2026-06-04T23:23:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/255837\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T23:23:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:23:47","slug":"strange-men-to-receive-developmental-workshop-at-brickaux-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/255837\/","title":{"rendered":"STRANGE MEN to Receive Developmental Workshop at BrickAux in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stroller Scene, a company that develops new plays by fostering environments for playwrights to experiment and grow, will present a developmental workshop of Strange Men, written by Sarah Bernstein, and directed by Chris Diercksen at BrickAux, July 30-August 2.<\/p>\n<p>Four men are brought together by a dating coach who promises to help them make meaningful connections with women. In this dark comedy about what it means to be a man, both the coach and his clients try to find the balance between vulnerability and masculinity without destroying each other or themselves in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The cast will feature Christopher Cortez Adams*, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Scott-Thomas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Thomas<\/a>*, Rob Neil*, Rishi Mutalik*, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Ryan-George\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan George<\/a>*, and Ryan Curley with Stage Manager\/Assistant Director Talia Feldberg, Producer Ashley Siflinger, and Dramaturg Percy Hornak.<\/p>\n<p>*Actors appears courtesy of the Actors&#8217; Equity Association<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a new play development organization, we&#8217;re constantly grappling with an ever-changing definition of readiness,&#8221; said Stroller Scene Executive Director Ashley Siflinger. &#8220;For us, it boils down to a playwright&#8217;s relationship to their script &#8211; does the document engage with and represent their core curiosity in a way that will not be easily misinterpreted by potential collaborators? Can the playwright articulate that core curiosity for themselves?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Performances will take place on: Thursday, July 30 at 7pm; Friday, July 31 at 7pm; Saturday, August 1 at 7pm; Sunday, August 2 at 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets ($20-$50) are available for advance purchase now. The presentation will run approximately 100 minutes, with no intermission. Please note that this developmental workshop is not open for review.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bway.world\/c9lt3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/myshowsbanner3-1780562307.gif\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" alt=\"BroadwayWorld My Shows\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stroller Scene, a company that develops new plays by fostering environments for playwrights to experiment and grow, will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-255837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}