April 8 – 10, 2022

Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center

The ninth annual Powers New Voices Festival will take place in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Tickets to all festival readings require reservations and are free. Subject to availability, reservations for Globe subscribers and donors are now available. Subject to availability, reservations for the general public will be available beginning Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at 12:00 noon. Tickets can be reserved by calling the Ticket Services Department at (619) 23-GLOBE (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. For more information visit www.TheOldGlobe.org.

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CELEBRATING COMMUNITY VOICES

FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2022
7:30 p.m.
An evening of two one-act plays

AND WE DANCED
By Miki Vale
Directed by Claire Simba

An exploration of the life and impact of Ruth Ellis, a Black, openly queer woman and LGBTQIA activist from the 1940s who created a safe haven and sustained advocacy for the Queer Black community of Detroit.

GAME NIGHT
By Queen Kandi Cole
Directed by Bibi Mama

A group of friends gather for a night of games but wind up digging into the complexities of their diverse backgrounds and belief structures post-pandemic during a chaotic and hilarious evening of libations and truth-telling.

FESTIVAL SERIES OF NEW AMERICAN PLAY READINGS

SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2022
4:00 p.m.

Globe-commissioned play
REGULAR
By Ngozi Anyanwu
Directed by Patricia McGregor

Black love. Is it a thing? And if so…. What is it in practice? Seriously… like in real life not in movies? What does it look like Sound like, Smell like across generations Across cultures Do we really want that old thang that our parents had? And by we I mean the Blacks. What if we could explore it like any other ideation of love? What if the way we talked about Black love was just, like ……. Regular?


SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2022
7:30 p.m.

EXOTIC DEADLY: OR THE MSG PLAY
By Keiko Green
Directed by Jesca Prudencio

It’s 1999, and Ami is an awkward, Japanese American high schooler whose world comes crashing down with a terrible discovery: her family is responsible for manufacturing MSG, the poison spice getting all the kids hooked! Meanwhile, a cool new girl, Exotic Deadly, arrives from Japan, and she’s not playing by the rules. In this time-traveling adventure, Ami vows to save the world from MSG and realizes what she’s capable of, if she could just get off the ocean floor....


SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 2022
4:00 p.m.

THE RED AND THE BLACK
By Keelay Gipson
Directed by Steve H. Broadnax III

You know that thing new couples do? Where they invite their other coupled friends to a weekend away to show off their new relationship? This play takes place in the Berkshires during one such weekend. And what was supposed to be a ritualistic coming together of friends spirals into something much different by the weekend’s end. A meditation on the rise of New Black Conservatism, The Red and the Black toys with the notion that all skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.

Major funding for the Powers New Voices Festival is provided by the Powers New Works Fund. The Old Globe’s New Voices Play Development Program is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. The Old Globe’s Community Voices program is supported by Subaru of El Cajon and 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.