Join us for the 2017 New Play Festival kickoff party next Sunday, January 22 from 5–7:00 PM at the new Modern Studio, 109 W Anderson Ave. in Happy Holler. This FREE event includes complimentary refreshments, a meet-&-greet with the actors, directors and playwrights, plus a showcase of short scenes from the Festival’s selection of new plays.

This year we're featuring two full productions, four table readings and one staged reading. Full schedule and details available here.

Tickets on sale NOW for our first full production, Found Objects, by Marilynn Barner Anselmi. Does the truth always set us free? When a mother and daughter attempt to deal with the accidental death of their son/brother, the truth may keep them from healing. The show runs February 2–12th at the Historic Southern Railway Station, 300 W Depot Ave.

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Table Readings:

Free admission. Each reading will include a discussion session afterwards with the cast, director and audience and, when possible, the playwright.

Dracula: Down for the Count by Mary Lynn Dobson
A comic retelling of the Dracula story. Think, “Young Frankenstein” meets Count Dracula.
2/4        1:00 pm Carter Branch Library
2/11      2:00 pm Fountain City Library
2/18      3:00 pm Bearden Branch Library
2/25      2:30 pm Lawson McGhee Library

Okra by Bill Raulerson
A comic caper set in backwoods Louisiana with a little magic, a few ghosts, and a very inept police force.
2/6         6:00 pm Fountain City Library
2/11       2:00 pm Bearden Branch Library
2/18      1:00 pm Carter Branch Library
2/23      6:00 pm Farragut Branch Library
2/25      12:00 pm Lawson McGhee Library

The Senator’s Wife by C. Robert Jones
When politics and family collide, they can both end up a little worse for wear.
2/4       3:00 pm Fountain City Library
2/11     11:00 am Bearden Branch Library
2/26     1:15 pm Lawson McGhee Library

When Blackbirds Sing by Gayle Greene
A lifetime prison sentence on a questionable conviction leaves a woman who was more a victim in her own to right to desperately seek a connection with a daughter she never knew.
2/11      1:00 pm Carter Branch Library
2/18      11:00 am Bearden Branch Library
2/18      2:00 pm Fountain City Library
2/26      3:00 pm Lawson McGhee Library

Stay tuned for more about our second World Premiere presentation in 2017, The Nearly Final, Almost Posthumous Play of the Not-Quite-Dead Sutton McAllister, by Kris Bauske
March 10–26
at Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 319 N Gay St.