Perry-Mansfield 20th Anniversary New Works Festival
The Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival, now in its 20th year, brings performing arts professionals from around the country together in the Rocky Mountains to continue Perry-Mansfield's founding principle of nurturing new talent with new work. South Coast Repertory, Primary Stages, Curious Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre and Tectonic Theater Project will develop 5 different new works in partnership with Perry-Mansfield. Presented under Executive Producers, Jim (The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival) and Lori (Lark Play Company) Steinberg with sponsorship from The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, Artistic Director, Andrew Leynse, (Primary Stages) and Grady Soapes, (Denver Center for the Performing Arts) Associate Producer, the New Works Festival will be held June 16th-17th in Steamboat Springs, CO.
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SHOWS
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Friday, June 16
Opening Night Dinner at Cugino's | Friday, June 16 @ 6pm, 41 8th St.
SOUTH COAST REPERTORY
Sugar Plum Fairy written and performed by Sandra Tsing Loh
Friday, June 16th @ 4pm – The Chief, downtown Steamboat Springs
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.
PRIMARY STAGES
Part and Parcel by Jenny Rachel Weiner
Friday, June 16th @ 8pm – The Chief, downtown Steamboat Springs
Directed Kip Fagan
Featuring: Kathryn Grody, Louisa Krause, Richard Masur and Mark Nelson
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.
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Saturday, June 17th
Catered lunch on Perry-Mansfield Campus | Saturday, June 17th following first performance, Julie Harris Lobby
CURIOUS THEATRE COMPANY
God Hates You by Emily Dendinger
Saturday, June 17th @ 12:30pm – Julie Harris Theater
Directed by Chip Walton
Featuring: Dee Covington, Tara Falk, Josh Hartwell, Jim Hunt, Curtiss Johns, and Josh Robinson
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.
SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE
The Voice Of by Lauren Yee
Saturday, June 17th @ 4pm – Julie Harris Theater
Directed by Joshua Kahan Brody
Dramaturgy by Kristin Leahey
Featuring: Stephanie Hsu, Francis Jue, Joseph Ngo, and Kate Wisniewski
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.
TECTONIC THEATRE PROJECT
The Very Extraordinary Mr. Law by Jeffrey LaHoste
Saturday, June 17th @ 7:30pm – Julie Harris Theater
Directed by Amanda Gronich
Featuring: Philippe Abiyouness, A.J. Cedeno, Avery Glymph, Cindy Gold, Hamish Allan-Headley, Edward Hibbert, Valeka J. Holt, and Mairin Lee
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.
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PRICING
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Ticketing Option #1 – Festival Feast Pass, $100
One ticket to all five readings, opening dinner at Cugino’s, Saturday Picnic lunch on Perry-Mansfield campus
Ticketing Option #2 – Festival Reading Pass, $60
One ticket to all five readings
Ticketing Option #3 – Individual Reading Tickets
$15 in advance, $20 at the door
Ticketing Option #4 – Friday Festival Pass, $50
Includes tickets to both Friday readings & opening dinner at Cugino’s
Ticketing Option #5 – Saturday Festival Pass, $70
Includes tickets to the three Saturday readings & catered lunch on Perry-Mansfield campus
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For advanced ticket reservations and other information, please call 970-879-7125, or email [email protected].
For lodging and area information, please visit the Steamboat Springs Chamber Resort online.