The 21st Annual New Works Festival
Admission is Free – we suggest a $10 donation to help cover the costs of continuing to offer the NWF to the community. A post-performance discussion follows each reading. The playwrights receive written critiques by three renowned drama critics, a videotape of the reading and an honorarium. General Admission seating – seats can be reserved online.
ERIC MARCHESE
VICKI PARIS GOODMAN
JAMES SCARBOROUGH
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2010 New Works Festival Winners:
2010 LBP NWF Winners are presented in the following Staged Readings:
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THE LOST TRIBE by JEFF STOLZER
Directed by Jo Black-Jacob
March 27, 2010 @2pm
Los Angeles, 1998 – in a small barber shop on Fairfax Avenue, secrets from the past cast a long and tragic shadow on the present for a group of Holocaust survivors, World War II refugees, neighborhood residents and their families.
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THE RESTORATION OF SIGHT by RICHARD MARTIN HIRSCH
Directed by Jo Black-Jacob and Caprice Spencer Rothe
April 24, 2010 @2pm
Despite his significant professional and humanitarian accomplishments, Dr. Perry Rosenthal remains a person who must continually battle his inner demons. This character driven play traces the psychological journey of the renowned ophthalmologist as he develops the life-changing Boston Scleral lens, which is able to miraculously reverse certain types of blindness.
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THE OLD BIRD by LYNN WELLS NELSON
Directed by Caprice Spencer Rothe
May 29, 2010 @2pm
Chocolate, wine, tobacco, and adventure were her passions, yet she lived to become the world’s oldest person. Inspired by the life of Jeanne Calment, THE OLD BIRD is a story about clever real estate transactions and of love and friendship entangled amid the ironies of life.
Directed by PHYLLIS GITLIN
June 26, 2010 @2pm
JOEL, a politically active NY photo-editor living at ground zero during the 9-11 attacks, is exactly the romantic partner artist EMMA wants during this time of impending war. Or … is he? How does our reaction to political upheaval influence our choice of a mate?
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For more information about the Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival, email:
newworks@lbplayhouse.org
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