A free three-day play reading event featuring 10 new plays by emerging and award-winning playwrights writing for the American theatre today, including new works by San Diegans.

January 12, 2025

Loving Come  - 4:00 pm

Globe-commissioned

By Tony Meneses

Directed by Dámaso Rodriguez

4:00 p.m.

When Julia randomly brings home a French foreign exchange student, her older sister Erika, fresh out of jail and living back home again, is not only confronted with this new guest now also living in their small apartment, but also with her sister’s long history of volatile behavior.

Tell Them I'm Still Young  - 7:00 pm

By Julia Doolittle

Directed by Barry Edelstein

7:30 p.m.

Allen and Kay are approaching 65 when their only daughter is killed in a car crash. Now parents without children, the two struggle to renegotiate their identities and their marriage, as the entrance of two young people revives a painful longing for what’s been lost: their family and their futures.

Tickets to all festival readings are free and require reservations. Globe subscribers and donors can reserve seats beginning Friday, Dec. 13, 2024 at noon. Subject to availability, reservations for the general public will be available beginning Friday, Jan. 3, 2025 at noon. Tickets can be reserved by calling the Ticket Services Department at (619) 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.

Date: January 10 - 12, 2025