All Stories About new-play festivals

Beyond the Comfort Zone at the WoW and BOSSS Festivals

Site-specific theatre festivals from La Jolla Playhouse and En Garde Arts make audiences work for their theatre—and it’s worth it.

The National Alliance for Musical Theater’s annual New York festival is a marketplace of new musicals in development.

The Minnesota company builds community around dramatists with its annual 10-day festival devoted to developing new work.

The annual festival takes over the ‘City of Neighborhoods’ with new work and new forms.

Straight realism, magic realism, even ‘sausage’ realism were on offer at the latest new-play event staged by the Latino/a Theatre Commons.

Over two weekends, writers at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival get two passes at their work, and their needs are as different as their plays.

Sisters are doing it for themselves in the city of brotherly love with a new women’s theatre festival.

The Contemporary American Theatre Festival brings political, edgy, evocative new work to loyal audiences in this idyllic West Virginia town.

New plays get a chance to stretch out in Philly’s “development heaven.”

How does HFF, now in its sixth year, stack up to other fringe fests? Sources say: comparable to NYC, but no match for Perth.