Enjoy Saturday afternoons at Shake Rag Alley for our third staged-reading series, presenting original plays in progress on our intimate outdoor theater, Alley Stage. Besides being fun to watch, a staged reading is an important way a playwrights can get valuable feedback from an audience (you!) and determine what their next steps are with the script. Following the reading by local cast members, stay for the talkback session and reception on the Art Cafe patio featuring live music, complimentary nibbles and a cash bar. About News for the Deaf Man: Having reached rock bottom, Harry reconnects with his estranged artist father. When the old man’s health appears in decline, Harry is caught between cashing in his famous father’s art in order to save himself, and reconciling their long-ago destroyed relationship.