Festival The 7th Annual
April 12 - 20, 2008 A live audience is the most important part of the development process - the best thing a writer or composer can ask for is an audience to be thrilled by something new and exciting. We ask that you help us realize our potential by joining us as we work out the kinks and discover how these pieces touch us, reflect us, and make us laugh. Together, let us applaud the power of theatrical imagination. Founding Corporate Sponsor Touch(ed) Emma had a meltdown. But when sister Kay and boyfriend help her transition back to real life, she reveals an astonishing gift for writing. Leaving medications behind, Emma creates a brilliant bestseller before their eyes. Maybe a little craziness is the key that unlocks the imagination, and maybe it runs in the family. But is creativity worth the price of what happens next? Wednesday April 16, 7:30pm
A drifting husband, an autistic daughter--Claire needs a little faith to change her life. When what she finds fills the ‘gaps’ in her docent’s spiel about evolution at the Museum of Natural History, she becomes a cause celebre for the advocates of “intelligent design.” As fresh as today’s headlines, this fascinating new play from the writer of Memphis and Over the River and Through the Woods explores the supernova that explodes when science, faith, and politics collide. Sunday April 13, 7:30pm
It’s Nebraska, 1990. Graduation, summertime blues, and you still have a crush on the star athlete. Then he gives you his favorite album. What’s a guy to think? This bittersweet coming-of-age musical explores the precarious relationship between two teens with a problem in a red-state town without pity. And right next door a garage band is bringing recording artist Matthew Sweet’s classic pop songs to exhilarating life. Saturday April 19, 2:30pm
Saturday April 12, 7:30pm NEW WORKS FESTIVAL PANEL DISCUSSIONS Meet the Writers Join us for a conversation with all the artists participating in this year’s New Works Festival. Get an inside look at how to write for the stage, how you know when to re-write, and what it’s like to participate in the Festival. Come discover the diversity, breadth, and energy of the Bay Area theater community at this regional playwrights showcase. A freewheeling night of new works and new faces, it features playwrights first discussing their plays then reading a 5 minute excerpt. It’s an unpredictable, wildly creative, speed-dating introduction to the Bay Area theatre scene—all
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