The annual Powers New Voices Festival kicks off this weekend, showcasing six short works by local playwrights and four full-length new plays. Free tickets for the staged readings have already been reserved.
Reanne Acasio and Anita D. perform in Celebrating Community Voices at the Old Globes’ 2019 Powers New Voices Festival. The festival returns this weekend. For those who love theater there are few things as exciting as witnessing the incubation stages of a new play, then later experiencing the final product in all its artistic fullness.in a staged reading directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg. A year later, I was blown away by a full-stage production at Cygnet Theatre with Rob Lutfy directing.
This year’s Powers New Voices Festival begins on Friday with “Celebrating Community Voices,” readings of six short works by locally based playwrights. After that on Saturday and Sunday, four full-length new plays will be read: Amy Berryman’s “Alien Girls,” Marco Antonio Rodriguez’s “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” Tony Meneses’ Globe-commissioned “Loving Come” and Julia Doolittle’s “Tell Them I’m Still Young.
A scene from the film documentary “Janis Ian: Breaking Silence,” which is featured at this month’s Palm Springs Film Festival. Most music fans know Ian only from her confessional hit single “At Seventeen” from 1975. Even fewer remember her from her song “Society’s Child” from 1966, which dealt with interracial prejudice.
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