At Guild Hall

“Gruesome Playground Injuries,” a two-person play by the Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph, will have four performances at Guild Hall, beginning tonight at 7.

First produced in 2009, the play tells the story of Kayleen and Doug, who meet in the nurse’s office of their elementary school. They come together periodically over the next 30 years due to injury, heartbreak, and self-destructive tendencies.

Starring Julia Masotti and Jacob Alden Roa and directed by Brian Clemente, the play is the first to be staged by Genny Productions, a new theatrical production company founded by alumni of the State University at Geneseo.

Other performances will take place tomorrow and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at 3. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at brownpapertickets.com. 

On Tuesday evening at 7:30, Guild Hall’s JDTLab will present a free reading of “Deep Down in Brooklyn: An American Story,” a new solo play written and performed by Ed German, familiar to East End listeners as host of “The Urban Jazz Experience” and “Friday Night Soul” on WPPB 88.3 FM.

Based on Mr. German’s memoir of the same name, the play takes the audience from his youth in a cellar apartment in 1950s Brooklyn to service as a Marine in Vietnam, from which he returned wounded and unprepared for the future. A soundtrack of classic rock, soul, and jazz accompanies the story. “Deep Down in Brooklyn” is produced by Bonnie Grice.