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News Emond and Yulin Star in 'New Work Now!' Reading of Isaac, April 10 Off-Broadway's Public Theatre will hold its seventh annual "New Work Now!" festival, April 10-30. Featured in the series, meant to help develop new plays, are scribes Nilo Cruz, Kia Corthron, Kelly Stuart and Suzan-Lori Parks.

Off-Broadway's Public Theatre will hold its seventh annual "New Work Now!" festival, April 10-30. Featured in the series, meant to help develop new plays, are scribes Nilo Cruz, Kia Corthron, Kelly Stuart and Suzan-Lori Parks.

The series continues with Kia Corthron's Breath, Boom. Hazelle Goodman and Daphne Rubin-Vega star. Jo Bonney directs. Rubin-Vega has starred in Rent and Two Sisters and a Piano. Bonney's credits include Look Back in Anger and House Arrest.

The reading will take place at 7 PM. For reservations, call (212) 260 2400.

The remaining schedule, which features an entire week of readings by Asian-American playwrights, runs as follows (all readings are at 7 PM):

April 15: Breath, Boom by Kia Corthron, directed by Jo Bonney
April 16: My Tired Broke Ass Pontificating Slapstick Funk by Euijoon Kim, directed by Alan Muraoka
April 17: 36 Views by Naomi Iizuka, directed by Lisa Peterson
April 18: St. Petersburg by Edward Bok Lee, awaiting director
April 19: wAve [sic] by Sung Rno, directed by Chay Yew
April 20: Rice Boy by Sunil Kuruvilla, directed by Liz Diamond
April 21: Forbidden City Blues by Alexander Woo, directed by Alison Harver
April 22: Hit by Alice Tuan, directed by Diane Paulus
April 24: I Don't Know Why That Caged Bird Won't Shut Up by Tracey Scott Wilson, directed by Robert O'Hara
April 25: When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba by Rogelio Martinez, directed by Lou Jacobs
April 26: Cyclone by Ron Fitzgerald, awaiting director
April 27: Summertime by Charles L. Mee, directed by Brian Kulick
April 28: Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams by Nilo Cruz, directed by Diane Rodriguez
April 29: Furious Blood by Kelly Stuart, directed by Daniel Auken
April 30: Fucking A by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by the author All readings are free to the public.

--By Robert Simonson

 
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