Best known for their site-specific production of Baby (nominated for a 2022 Drama Desk Award), Off-Broadway's Out of the Box Theatrics will present staged readings of three new plays by emerging playwrights, with each production offering in-person and streaming options.
The first play is Secretos by Alex Carrera which will play September 11 at Weathervane Theatre in Whitefield, New Hampshire. The new work follows Beatrice and her Mexican-American family—consisting of her husband, disabled son, an angsty teen daughter—and the secret that binds them together.
Playing October 17 is the comedy-drama Call Me Abigail by Shelli Pentimall Bookler. The show explores a family conflict that arises between a father and daughter when they delve into topics surrounding politics and the adult entertainment industry. Details about the venue to be announced.
Lastly, Let's Talk About Anything Else by Anthony Anello will run December 12 at Manhattan's Theatre 71. Described as a horror-comedy, this show follows a group of queer women in their twenties as they vacation together for the first time since their friend passed and become haunted by their grief. The playwright shares, "I wrote this play a few months after the unexpected death of my father, using it not only to mourn, but to purge the feelings I was harboring of guilt, isolation, and confusion as I tried to comprehend the incomprehensible. Through this outpour, this first draft came into the world as suddenly and abruptly as my father left it."
The latter two works are presented as part of the theatre company's Building the Box program which aims to boast authentic representation to the historically oppressed in all aspects of programming while providing artists fair and competitive pay.
The three plays are presented by Out of the Box Theatrics with Jennifer Campos Productions in association with Weathervane Theatre.
