20th Anniversary New Works Festival

One ticket to all five readings, opening dinner at Cugino’s, Saturday Picnic lunch on Perry-Mansfield campus

One ticket to all five readings

Includes tickets to both Friday readings & opening dinner at Cugino’s

Includes tickets to the three Saturday readings & catered lunch on Perry-Mansfield campus

The Madwoman in the Volvo is back—and Scrooge isn’t the only one bitter about the holidays! With signature irreverence, NPR superstar Sandra Tsing Loh recounts her own childhood desire for a highly coveted role in the Beverly Rosann School of Dance’s production of The Nutcracker. Filled with ambition, rivalry and pre-teen angst, this is a hilarious tale of life’s crushing blows. Adult content.

On the anniversary of her mother’s death, Marissa and her father Harold decide to get in the car and drive. In this road trip play set to classic rock, a father and daughter must learn to get to know each other in the absence of the one person who held them together. With heart, humor, and rock-and-roll, PART AND PARCEL explores what unfolds in the vastness of grief, and what can happen when we decide to truly let go.

Laurel has always been the apple of the church’s eye. She’s the first person to volunteer to picket funerals of dead soldiers, knows what to say to strike a nerve in a crowd, and can debate the Bible with the best of them. Despite the constant hate mail and death threats, she knows she’s saving the sinners of the world before the end of days arrives. However, when Laurel joins social media she’s faced for the first time with the outside world, and soon everything she believes is called into question. God Hates You asks what it means to grow up in a church dedicated to spreading hate and intolerance, and what happens when the faith you’ve rigorously adhered to your whole life came shattering down around you.

Throughout the 20th century, the Voice of America radio broadcast served as theUnited States' propaganda tool in the fight against Communism, blaring news and music to our frenemies around the world. But who was listening and what might they beam back to us, if given the chance? An exploration of family, music, and memory across time and space.

A Scottish gambler arrives at Versailles with a trick he says will make everyone rich: turn paper into gold. John Law’s scheme to replace coins with paper money is a wild success until it turns into the world’s first stock market crash, and he barely escapes with his life. Law and his partner in commerce, the flamboyant younger brother of Louis XIV, flee to New Orleans, where they are captured by a runaway slave and her gang of buccaneers. A comedy that reveals origin of the word “millionaire” and how America’s most improvised city was founded on a gamble.