Works by Vivian J. O. Barnes, Danny Tejera, and Susan Xu are part of Second Stage’s Judith Champion New Voices Reading Series
Who: Second Stage Theater
What: Staged readings of new plays
Where: Tony Kiser Theater, 305 West 43rd St. between Eighth & Ninth Aves.
When: January 18, 24, 31, free with RSVP, 6:30
Why: Second Stage Theater’s 2022 Judith Champion New Voices Reading Series is set to take place January 18, 24, and 31, featuring professionally produced staged readings of three works by emerging artists. “We’re thrilled to be presenting the second year of our New Voices series — and to do so in person at the Tony Kiser Theater,” Second Stage president and artistic director Carole Rothman said in a statement. “Supporting early career writers is central to Second Stage’s mission, and I can’t wait for the Second Stage audience to be the first to experience these great plays by Danny, Vivian and Susan.”
First up is Danny Tejera’s Toros on January 18, about three twentysomethings and a dog hanging out in a garage in Madrid, directed by David Mendizábal, followed on January 24 by Vivian J. O. Barnes’s The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes, about a dance team preparing for homecoming, directed by Cristina Angeles, and concluding on January 31 with Susan Xu’s Yellow Dream$, a dark comedy about diversity, directed by May Adrales. “Support what is most important to you,” series underwriter Judith Champion added in a statement, “and one thing that is important to me is to nurture new playwriting talent so that theater flourishes for future generations.”