New Works Festival On Its Way To Bay Street

Bay Street Theater’s “Title Wave: 2022 New Works Festival,” a weekend of play readings, will take place Friday, May 6, through Sunday, May 8. This year, the festival will introduce two new musicals and two new plays over the course of the weekend, which will offer a showcase of cutting-edge theater, complete with staged readings, talkbacks and critical discussion, providing a rare opportunity for directors and actors to work on their play in-person.

Selected from more than 600 submissions, the four plays to be presented are “Double Helix,” a musical by Madeline Myers (Friday, May 6, 8 p.m.); “Atacama,’ a play by Augusto Federico Amador (Saturday, May 7, 2 p.m.); “One Man Titanic,” a one-man musical with book by Scott Rothman, music by Joe Kinosian, and lyrics by Kellen Blair (Saturday, May 7, 8 p.m.); and “Zero State,” a play by Allison Moon (Sunday, May 8, 3 p.m.).

“I’m so excited that Bay Street is presenting our first fully live New Works Festival in three years, and it’s going to be a great one,” says Bay Street Artistic Director Scott Schwartz, “This is the first time ever we will be presenting two new musicals and two new plays in the festival. All four works are by brilliant writers and are wildly different, but they all offer vivid explorations of what makes us human and of our deepest needs and desires.”

Tickets for each reading are $10 and support new works initiatives at the theater, or a Festival Pass with tickets to each performance for $25. Call 631-725-9500 or visit baystreet.org to purchase.