TheatreWorks New Works Festival Opens 8/11-20

By: Jun. 06, 2017
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Lovers of new theatre from all over the country will gather this August for an advance look at tomorrow's hits in TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's 2017 New Works Festival. This unique festival offers audiences an extraordinary opportunity to experience new plays and musicals in their early stages of development, give feedback, and participate in a panel discussion with the artists. Playwrights are able to rewrite entire scenes of their plays between performances, allowing the audience to help shape a brand new piece of theatre.

This year's festival will feature three plays and two musicals as well as special events. The plays include Tiny Houses by Stefanie Zadravec, 3 Farids by Ramiz Monsef, and Deal with the Dragon by Kevin Rolston. Musicals for this year's New Works Festival consist of Past, Present, Future, featuring the music of the Shangri-Las helmed by David Stenn, and 2016 Writers' Retreat participants and current Broadway Come From Away team Irene Sankoff and David Hein reworking their earlier My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding.

Among the roster of acclaimed playwrights, composers, and directors who have participated in past New Works Festivals are: Jeffrey Seller, Andrew Lippa, Stephen Schwartz, Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Rachel Sheinkin, Henry Krieger, Duncan Sheik, Joe DiPietro, and many more.

Past festivals have launched many new works onto TheatreWorks' stage and to national productions. Broadway and London's Tony and Olivier Award-winning Best Musical Memphis, Off-Broadway's hit Striking 12, the Off-Broadway play Equivocation, winner of the 2009 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, and multiple award-winning drama The North Pool are among works that came to life at the New Works Festival.

For two busy weeks in August audiences will applaud, debate, and watch as five new shows for America's future, while sharing fine foods with their authors in the starlit courtyard of the Lucie Stern Theatre. Festival-goers will also have the opportunity to interact directly with the writers in a special Meet the Artists Panel.

For information or to order tickets visit theatreworks.org or call (650) 463-1960



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