Off-Broadway theatre company Clubbed Thumb has announced the complete line-up for the 28th Annual Summerworks Festival of New Plays. Running May 14 through July 1, the festival will premiere two new plays and a new musical.
The first show will be Business Ideas. Written by Milo Cramer and directed by Laura Dupper, the play will run May 14-27. The show is described as follows: "A mother-daughter duo tenuously clinging to middle-class status brainstorm get-rich-quick schemes to pay for college while their exhausted yet somehow lovable barista tries and fails to find more gainful employment."
The second show, written by Mara Nelson-Greenberg, is not yet titled. Directed by Joan Sergay, the play will run June 2-13. The show is described as follows: "a young woman gets a grant to start a community center鈥攂ut at her mom鈥檚 house. A play about being at the whim of billionaires, pornos-with-no-sex, and trying to get a piece of the pie."
The third show will be Cold War Choir Practice, which is a co-production with Page 73. The musical features a book, lyrics, and music by Ro Reddick, and will be directed by Knud Adams. Running June 19-July 1, the show is described as follows: "a prominent Black conservative brings his mysteriously ill wife home for the holidays, setting long simmering tensions with his estranged family to boil. A fugue of Reaganomics, espionage, roller disco, and cults鈥攗nderscored by the Syracuse, New York chapter of the Seedlings of Peace Children鈥檚 Chorus."
Casting, full creative teams, and the venue will be announced at a later date.
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