Alumni news, in brief:

Jinxed (Photo: Taylor Reynolds)

Gregory Fletcher’s new play Uploaded was part of the Whitley-Moiser Foundation’s Summer Readings 2012 series of new American plays in NYC earlier this month, featuring Michael Learned, June Gable, and Phil Mills. He will also start a new job this fall as Director of Theatre at CUNY Kingsborough Community College…

Molly Smith Metzler’s Elemeno Pea is on the calendar for Mixed Blood Theatre’s 2012-13 season…

The creative team behind K. Alexa Mavromatis’ Jinxed took home seven awards at Looking Glass Theatre’s Spring Writer/Director Forum last month in NYC, including Audience Favorite for week one of the fest and the judges’ award for Best Production (a tie with Regina Robbins’ It’s Just the Radio, also a multiple award-winner)…

A rave review for Monica Bauer’s Made For Each Other…

Underground Railway’s production of Car Talk: The Musical!!! (by Wes Savick, music by Michael Wartofsky) has been extended through Sept. 2…

Savick's 'Car Talk' to open this week

The Suffolk University Theatre Department will present the world premiere of Car Talk: The Musical!!! from March 31-April 3, 2011 at the Modern Theatre.

The new musical – inspired by the hit National Public Radio show of the same name and written and directed by Suffolk University Professor (and BPT alum and frequent director) Wesley Savick – will be the first production created for the new Modern Theatre.

Ray Magliozzi and Tom Magliozzi, co-hosts of NPR’s “Car Talk,” generously granted permission for Suffolk University to soup up their show with a musical engine. The brothers, AKA Click and Clack, first appeared on the Boston airwaves in 1977. Their radio call-in show, which offers automotive know-how with an air of hilarity, was picked up by NPR for a nationwide audience in 1987.

The play sends up classic Broadway songs about love and relationships, turning the romantic to the automotive and showing how the psychological and the mechanical intertwine, much in the way that the Car Boys do week after week on their NPR radio show.