New Works Night
Two new projects with nationally-recognized playwrights, José Cruz González and Melissa Cooper, are currently in development for production in a future season. Meet them – and hear excerpts from their developing plays – at our next “New Works Night” on Monday, October 11, 2010. Special reading of Melissa Cooper’s commissioned new play in the spring of 2011. Check back for more details, join our mailing list or become a fan on Facebook.
October 11th
Time 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
At the Centene Center for Arts and Education
3547 Olive Street
Saint Louis, MO 63103
Risk.
More than anything, that’s what developing new work involves.
When a new play is emerging from whatever idea inspired it, there are no guarantees that it will work, that it will be embraced by audiences, or that it will be a fiscally sound project. In fact, very little can be known about an emerging idea, aside from an artist’s belief that it matters to explore it.
We are artists. Core to our mission – both as an organization and as artists – is a conviction that making new work matters. So we take the inherent risks. As artists, we consider it our mandate to create, to explore, to poke, to dig, to expose, to inquire, to push, to search, to traverse the untested ground of the new.
More than that, we believe that developing new work is important to our audiences and to the broader field of theater artists around the country and the world.
We are proud to have a decades-long legacy of generating new work. We are honored that plays developed, commissioned, and produced first by us sometimes go on to publication, and often go on to be produced by other theaters around the country.
Be the first in St. Louis to experience a new play by renowned playwright José Cruz Gonzáles, titled Super Cowgirl and Mighty Miracle (working title). It’s a play about a grandmother, a little girl, and dog with the uncanny ability to be present when miracles occur.
Super Cowgirl and Mighty Miracle, commissioned by Metro Theater Company, began its development at our New Works Incubator in December 2009 when Gonzáles joined 17 other artists from St. Louis, across the country, and around the world to explore the beginnings of three new plays. In June 2010, Super Cowgirl and Mighty Miracle was invited to continue development at the New Plays for Young Audiences festival at Provincetown Playhouse in New York City, in partnership with the NYU Program in Educational Theatre.
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