Audiences at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s 22nd annual New Works Festival will be able to view the evolution of seven plays and musicals, as playwrights and composers revise and refine their shows during the festival.
Set for July 25-Aug. 17 at Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto, the 2025 festival includes readings of “Old Cock” by Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan, directed and performed by Jorge Andrade, artistic director of Portugal’s mala voadora theater company. Andrade and mala voadora’s “Motion/Capture” will receive a one-night-only reading on July 28.
Following an Aug. 8 kickoff event featuring excerpts from plays by Susan Fairbrook Core Writers Group members, the festival’s readings also include “Vienna,” a new musical from “Come From Away” creators Irene Sankoff and David Hein; “Alice, Formerly of Wonderland,” Emmy-winner Mark Saltzman’s a cappella musical about the real Alice; “The Bridge,” The Kilbanes and Patricia Cotter’s new musical based on the true story behind the creation of the Brooklyn Bridge; “malcreados,” christopher oscar peña’s play about brothers reconnecting following their mother’s passing; and “The Employee Dharma Handbook,” Geetha Reddy’s workplace comedy.
Festival passes are $90, single tickets are $40 for “Old Cock” and $25 for other readings and events and tickets to the kickoff event reception and presentation are $99 at theatreworks.org or 877- 662-8978.
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