Hendrix College student Michael Chavez is among the playwrights whose work will be read at Voices at the River. 

Free public readings continue July 17 at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 501 W. Ninth St., Little Rock, as part of Voices at the River, Arkansas Repertory Theatre's two-week residency program designed to develop and support the work of Latino and African-American playwrights.

Reservations for the readings, to be held in the third floor auditorium of Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, can be made by e-mailing Sheridan Essman of the Arkansas Repertory Theatre or by calling the Arkansas Repertory Theatre box office at (501) 378-0405.

Here's the schedule:

  • 2 p.m. July 17 -- Waking Up to You by Hendrix College student Michael Chavez is a comical view into the short-lived relationship of a college-aged couple.  
  • 6 p.m. July 17 -- Solterona by Augusto Federico Amador of New York City is about a middle-aged spinster, or solterona, who struggles to find an independent life while caring for her repressive mother.
  • 8:30 p.m. July 17 --Roses in the Water by La’Chris Jordan, a native of Oakland, Calif., follows the uneasy life of Clarice who enlists in the U.S. Navy to escape the New Orleans Desire Housing Projects, a dead-end job and constant struggle to pay the rent.

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