Postponed from this Spring due to the pandemic, the Women Playwright Series (WPS) is coming back to Centenary Stage Company this November with three new plays.

“Drive” by Deborah Yarchun, on Wednesday, Nov. 4, is about a community of truckers in a small town in Iowa. When they lose their jobs to self-driving vehicles, resentment soon begins to surface against Gloria, the only trucker in town still employed.

In “Badlands” by Nora Leahy, Wednesday, Nov. 11, three library employees have become first responders to the opioid crisis and witnesses to a changing neighborhood.

On Wednesday, Nov. 18, Patricia Cotter’s “I’ll Give You Something to Cry About” follows two sister who share DNA and not much else when Paulette shows up unannounced at Ann Marie’s doorstep.

All shows will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Kutz Theatre in the Lackland Performing Arts Center on the campus of Centenary University in Hackettstown. There are no tickets required for this event, but advanced reservations are recommended due to limited seating. Seating is by donation; advanced reservations require a minimum $5 donation.

Led by Catherine Rust, the WPS program offers playwrights the opportunity to work with professional actors and directors in a workshop rehearsal process, and to hear their work in front of a live audience – a critical part of the development process.  Lively talk-backs with the playwright and cast follow each presentation, and one play is selected each year as the winner of the Susan Glaspell Award, which promises a full production in the main-stage season at CSC and a monetary award for the playwright.

For more information or to reserve a spot, please visit centenarystageco.org or call the Centenary Stage Company box office at (908) 979-0900.

The box office is open Monday through Friday from 1-5 p.m. and two hours prior to every scheduled performance. The box office is located in the Lackland Performing Arts Center at 715 Grand Ave. Hackettstown, N.J., on the campus of Centenary University.