New functions festivals target at-residence audiences

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and San Jose’s Town Lights Theater Organization both equally have new operates in the performs for in-home viewing in the course of the future couple months.

New Performs Director Giovanna Sardelli phone calls TheatreWorks’ New Operates Competition “an progress seem at tomorrow’s hits.” The competition kicks off April 23 with tunes, monologues and scenes by a amount of actors and performers. The online competition features a sneak peek at the hit indie people-rock musical “Lizard Boy,” which will start TheatreWorks’ 51st year in the drop. There will also be a electronic rap piece encouraged by themes from Shakespeare’s “The Service provider of Venice” as interpreted by acclaimed team, Bay Location Theatre Cypher.

The pageant also functions two operates that look at the effects and ramifications of the Muslim travel ban. Remarkably, a single is a comedy that explores friendship in the time of war, while the other is a drama that celebrates the indomitable human spirit that stays in the course of horrible crises that divide family members, nations and even marriages.

Among the the artists participating in the Kickoff Party are Min Kahng, who carried out in the TheatreWorks production of “The 4 Immigrants,” Geetha Reddy (“Safe House”), Mansa Ra (“Too Heavy for Your Pocket”) and Lynn Rosen (“The Imperialists”).

In addition to a lineup of engage in readings and musicals, Sardelli suggests, further on-desire gatherings will include discussions with playwrights Kareem Fahmy and Betty Shamieh, whose “A Unique Society,” and “As Quickly as Unachievable,” respectively, are highlighted in the pageant.

The New Is effective Pageant runs by way of May 15. All occasions and plays will be livestreamed by using www.theatreworks.org, wherever competition passes can be purchased starting at $10.

City Lights Up

This calendar year Metropolis Lights Theater Organization determined to convert its “Lights Up!” Pageant into a 4-episode podcast collection on Filament. The series features 8 brief performs (two for each episode) masking comedy, drama and monologues.

The series commenced April 6 the remaining three episodes had been established to be aired on April 13, 20 and 27. Melinda Marks and Roneet Aliza Rahamim share the directing duties.

The lineup incorporates “Bar Belle” and “Take This Career and Shove It” on April 13 “Backseat Driver” and “Window in Flight” on April 20 and “Gram Scams” and “Until Tomorrow” on April 27.

An ensemble of actors, most of whom engage in numerous roles, include things like Leigh Rondon-Davis, David Boyll, Oluchi Nwokocha, Chiarra Sorci, Kieran Beccia and Arcadia Conrad.

The podcast will be embedded at cltc.org/filament and also out there for down load on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other podcast hubs.

Thanks to San Jose Water Corporation, which is underwriting the Filament podcasts, listeners can tune in to Lights Up for free. But donations are welcome by means of cldc.org/donate or via textual content to 833-920-3003.