The 2023 Summer New Play Festival
July 7 - 23, 2023
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Tesseract Theatre Company hosts a festival of new plays every summer, featuring new works from emerging playwrights from across the country.
The 2023 Festival of New Plays will take place over three weekends this July.
The festival will take place at The Marcelle Theatre, 3310 Samuel Shepard Dr., St. Louis, 63103.
Tickets can purchased for individual performances at MetroTix.com soon.
July 7 @ 8pm
July 8 @ 8pm
July 9 @ 4pm
July 15 @ 8pm
July 16 @ 2pm
written by Amy Lytle
directed by Shane Signorino
Synopsis: Two community theaters in the same city are putting on the same musical at the same time. And war has been declared. Between big misunderstandings, plenty of shenanigans, and a lot of lessons learned, each company battles to win the most audience members and prove themselves the best production of "A Doll's House: The Musical!" that the community theatre community has ever seen.
July 14 @ 8pm
July 16 @ 6pm
July 21 @ 8pm
July 22 @ 8pm
July 23 @ 4pm
written by Gwyneth Strope
directed by Brittanie Gunn
Synopsis: Dorothy is raising four teenage girls all on her own, but when she meets someone at her mother's wedding, she begins a pivotal year of balancing her happiness with the wants of her daughters. Rosalind (18) is going off to college in the fall, Lorelei (16) is discovering her own privacy, Camille (14) is frustrated with her medical condition, and Eileen (12) doesn't understand why everything isn't about her.