A free three-day play reading event featuring 10 new plays by emerging and award-winning playwrights writing for the American theatre today, including new works by San Diegans.

January 10, 2025

Celebrating Community Voices

7:30 p.m.

Celebrate local, first-time playwrights at this inspiring evening of short plays. These works come to life through the Globe’s transformative arts engagement program Community Voices. Experience the power of local stories and creativity as we celebrate the heart of our community.

An evening of six 10-minute plays

Directed by Andréa Agosto

Unfinished Business

By Brittany Allen

The 15th of March

By Lara Benusis

Sandwich

By Ruby Dean Hays

Retying the Knot

By Alexander Ameen

The Bully Curse

By Steven Fletcher

The Status Quo

By Ahliyah Chambers

January 11, 2025

ALIEN GIRLS

By Amy Berryman

Directed by Jaki Bradley

4:00 p.m.

Tiffany is pregnant. Her best friend, Carolyn, is trying to be happy for her. When Carolyn's true feelings become public in the form of an essay that goes viral, the fallout may be irreparable. Time traveling through decades of friendship between two writers on the brink of huge life changes, Alien Girls is a meta-theatrical dark comedy about the joys and challenges of creating art and creating life.

Major funding for the Powers New Voices Festival is provided by the Powers New Works Fund. The Old Globe’s Community Voices Program is supported by the Ann Davies Fund for Teaching Artists. Financial support of The Old Globe is provided by The City of San Diego. The Theodor and Audrey Geisel Fund provides leadership support for The Old Globe’s year-round activities.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 

By Marco Antonio Rodriguez

Adapted from the novel by Junot Díaz

Directed by Eddie Torres

7:30 p.m.

Oscar knows that a nerdy Dominican college freshman isn’t anyone’s idea of a romantic hero. But with the encouragement of his new college roommate, Yunior, Oscar is going to give love another chance... and then another... and then another. There’s just one problem: his family is cursed. A vivid new stage adaptation based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Junot Díaz. (This is an English translation of the play currently running in Spanish at Repertorio Español in New York.)

January 12, 2025

Loving Come

Globe-commissioned

By Tony Meneses

Directed by Dámaso Rodriguez

4:00 p.m.

When Julia randomly brings home a French foreign exchange student, her older sister Erika, fresh out of jail and living back home again, is not only confronted with this new guest now also living in their small apartment, but also with her sister’s long history of volatile behavior.

Tell Them I'm Still Young

By Julia Doolittle

Directed by Barry Edelstein

7:30 p.m.

Allen and Kay are approaching 65 when their only daughter is killed in a car crash. Now parents without children, the two struggle to renegotiate their identities and their marriage, as the entrance of two young people revives a painful longing for what’s been lost: their family and their futures.

Tickets to all festival readings are free and require reservations. Globe subscribers and donors can reserve seats beginning Friday, Dec. 13, 2024 at noon. Subject to availability, reservations for the general public will be available beginning Friday, Jan. 3, 2025 at noon. Tickets can be reserved by calling the Ticket Services Department at (619) 234-5623. A line for standby seating will form 30 minutes before each performance of the Powers New Voices Festival. Based on ticket-holder attendance, those standing in the standby line may be seated. Seating is based on seat availability and is not guaranteed. Latecomers with tickets are also not guaranteed admittance.

Date: January 10 - 12, 2025

Location: Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, Conrad Prebys Theatre Center

1363 Old Globe Way San Diego, CA 92101

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