The Boomerang Theatre Company Presents FIRST FLIGHT New Play Festival

The Boomerang Theatre Company (Tim Errickson, Artistic Director) will present their annual FIRST FLIGHT New Play Festival from March 16th-19th, 2016. Five new full length plays will be featured with free public readings. The festival will take place at Studio 501 @ CAP21, 18 West 18th Street in New York City. Check out www.boomerangtheatre.org for more information.

FIRST FLIGHT serves as one of the premiere play development festivals in New York City, and previous festivals have included work by Crystal Skillman, Rich Orloff, Larry Kunofsky, Adam Kraar, Vincent Sessa, Lila Rose Kaplan, E.M. Lewis and Sharyn Rothstein among others.

The 2016 lineup includes:

Wednesday March 16th at 7pm
The Snowmaker by Aleks Merilo
Directed by Dominic D'Andrea
In the dead of winter, a teenage girl's estranged father unexpectedly takes her to a cabin in the isolated woods of Montana. She doesn't know where he has been for the last 10 years. And she doesn't know who he is searching for at night, when he stares out the window, with a sawed-off shotgun by his side.

Thursday March 17th at 7pm
The Marble Muse by Diane Baia Hale
Directed by Cailin Heffernan
When Louisa Lander is commissioned to sculpt Nathaniel Hawthorne, she little suspects the dark journey she will take with the author of The Scarlet Letter.

Friday March 18th at 7pm
Incompleat Works by Dennis Agle Jr.
Directed by Tim Errickson
The characters of an unfinished Shakespeare play embark on a quest in modern-day England in an effort to discover how their stories end.

Saturday March 19th at 4pm
Discreet Global Assets by Lauren Ferebee
Directed by Elizabeth Audley
As the sales reps for Quotidian Industries ratchet up the competition for Annual Review Day, they're discovering disturbing company secrets that no one should know.

Saturday March 19th at 7pm
Blanquita by Zack Calhoon
Directed by Kel Haney
When a Senator's daughter crosses class lines and spends a wild night with the family's chauffeur, there are witnesses - and consequences.

The readings will be held in Studio 501 @ CAP21 (18 West 18th Street, 5th floor)
All readings are free, and reservations are required. Reservations can be made at www.boomerangtheatre.org. Donations of $5 per reading are suggested.

About Boomerang Theatre Company:

Established in 1999, the Boomerang Theatre Company is dedicated to producing new, classic and neglected plays that add to the vibrancy of the national theatre canon. Boomerang annually presents original and re-imagined plays as both outdoor performances and indoors rotating repertory seasons. By employing innovative programming philosophy and a pioneering spirit, Boomerang's goal is to constantly expand the idea of what is possible for an Off-Off Broadway/Indie Theatre company. The end result is a roughhewn, dynamic dialogue of culturally significant plays from diverse styles, genres, and periods.

Photo Credit: Boomerang Theatre website

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