TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, California has announced the selections for its 2009 New Works Festival, to run July 15-August 23.
The theater will present the world premiere production of Tinyard Hill, a new musical by Tommy Newman and Mark Allen, along with staged readings of Raquel Bitton and Chris Smith’s play The Sparrow and the Birdman, a sensuous song-filled drama about the unforgettable Edith Piaf; Laura Schellhardt’s humorous drama Auctioning the Ainsleys; Rajiv Joseph’s thriller The North Pool; Darrah Cloud and Kim D. Sherman’s musical Makeover, the story of a feisty single mother who builds an empire from her gift for glamour, with book and lyrics by Darrah Cloud and music by Kim D. Sherman; Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, a musical with music by GrooveLily team Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda, with a book by Joe DiPietro; Tales from the Bad Years, a new musical for a generation of lost and adrift twenty-somethings by Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk; and concerts by Maureen McGovern and Vienna Teng.
Tickets go on sale on May 29. For information, call 650-463-1960 or visit www.theatreworks.org.
