New Ideas Festival is an annual, three-week, juried festival of new writing, works-in-progress and experimental theatre, with a different program of plays each week and staged readings on Saturdays at noon. The 2016 festival takes place in the Studio at Alumnae Theatre and runs from March 9 to 27, 2016.
This year’s festival features 16 new works, ranging in length from 10 to 60 minutes. The plays’ eclectic mix of characters includes three women mountain climbers at the top of their game, a dysfunctional parent council, three curious housemaids, a group of at-risk kids in a rehab yoga class, a street canvasser, a South American cardinal with a shady past, and Irish poet W.B. Yeats. Come, enjoy three evenings of original plays and three Saturday readings, and give the playwrights your feedback.
Show times: Wednesday to Saturday, 8 pm
Saturday and Sunday matinées, 2:30 pm (talkback after the Saturday 2:30 pm show)
Readings will be at 12 noon on each Saturday, followed by a talkback.
The 2016 NIF program is listed below. Click on the buttons for details about each week's shows. Buy Tickets
This year’s festival features 16 new works, ranging in length from 10 to 60 minutes. The plays’ eclectic mix of characters includes three women mountain climbers at the top of their game, a dysfunctional parent council, three curious housemaids, a group of at-risk kids in a rehab yoga class, a street canvasser, a South American cardinal with a shady past, and Irish poet W.B. Yeats. Come, enjoy three evenings of original plays and three Saturday readings, and give the playwrights your feedback.
Show times: Wednesday to Saturday, 8 pm
Saturday and Sunday matinées, 2:30 pm (talkback after the Saturday 2:30 pm show)
Readings will be at 12 noon on each Saturday, followed by a talkback.
The 2016 NIF program is listed below. Click on the buttons for details about each week's shows. Buy Tickets
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WEEK 1
- March 9 to 13, 2016 - Stuck by Stacey Iseman directed by Kelsey Laine Jacobson Prayers to St. George by Andrew Lee directed by Meg Moran The Council by Deanna Kruger directed by Claren Grosz This Will Be My Last Transmission by Natalie Frijia directed by Zita Nyarady Reading: A Better Place by Ramona Baillie directed by Chelsea Dab Hilke |
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Lobby Play: The Nurse by Francine Dick, directed by Mandy Roveda
