Series of Workshops Planned at Taper, Too

Workshops of eight plays and four performance art pieces will be presented in public rehearsals at Taper, Too, located at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood, as part of the Mark Taper Forum’s sixth New Work Festival, starting next week.

Admission is free, but reservations are required: (213) 972-7392.

The schedule:

Wednesday-Thursday: “Unmerciful Good Fortune,” by Edwin Sanchez, directed by Peter Brosius.

Nov. 13-14: a work in progress by Culture Clash, directed by Jose Luis Valenzuela.

Nov. 17-18: “Vilna’s Got a Golem,” by Ernest Joselovitz.

Nov. 20-21: “Missionaries on Their Knees,” written and directed by Elizabeth Swados.

Dec. 1-2: “Smoke, Fish, Fire,” by Wolfe Bowart, directed by Peter Brosius, and “Uncle Bends: A Home-Cooked Negro Narrative,” by Bob Devin Jones, directed by Roberta Levitow.

Dec. 4-5: “Cleavage and Smokes,” by Dolores Chavez, and “All for You,” by John Fleck, with video by Adam Soch; David Schweizer, consulting director.

Dec. 8-9: “The Mad Dancers Part I, II and III,” by Yehuda Hyman.

Dec. 15-16: “Urban Folk Tales,” by Daniel Reitz, directed by David Schweizer; and “Ragged Time,” by Oliver Mayer, directed by Robert Egan.

Dec. 18-19: “The Woman Warrior,” an adaptation by Deborah Rogin of Maxine Hong Kingston’s book, directed by Sharon Ott.

The Taper festival also will co-host a tribute to John Cage, “A Need for Poetry: Reading Through Cage,” with the Museum of Contemporary Art. It will be performed at Taper, Too on Nov. 22 and at MOCA on Nov. 23. Program time for all workshops and the Cage tribute is 8 p.m.

Eight readings will conclude the festival in February.