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THE WORLD TO COME at the 2024 NNPN National Showcase of New Plays

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THE WORLD TO COME

Staged Reading

January 18 – February 12, 2023

National New Play Network | Queens, New York

By Ali Viterbi

Directed by Avital Shira

 

 

Ali’s new play THE WORLD TO COME was selected for the National New Play Network’s National Showcase of New Plays. Established in 2002, the National Showcase of New Plays is an annual event that brings together NNPN Member Theaters and other constituents to see and celebrate new plays. Plays are nominated by Member Theaters and solicited from select Affiliated Artists; those selected are presented at Showcase in a variety of formats.

Here’s a synopsis of THE WORLD TO COME: Every night at the SeaBreeze Hebrew Home for the Aging, Fanny, Barbara, Ruth, and Hal gather for their nightly “Supper Club” meeting.  Over scrabble and charades, the Supper Club gang compete, fight, fall in love, and break each others hearts. But as the world crumbles around them, they are forced to contend with questions of aging, legacy, and survival. A coming-of-age story set in a nursing home, THE WORLD TO COME asks how do we as a society care for our elders? And can you still come-of-age at the end of your life?

 

In Every Generation wins the National Jewish Playwriting Contest!

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IN EVERY GENERATION

September 4 @ 7:30pm

Jewish Plays Project | 14th St Y | New York City

By Ali Viterbi

Directed by Howard Shalwitz

IN EVERY GENERATION has won the 2019 National Jewish Playwriting Contest! Over 150 playwrights from 27 states and 6 countries submitted plays to the Contest. The JPP chose the play through its signature community-centered process, which combined the efforts of over 1,000 people in 7 cities – artists in New York, clergy and Jewish lay leaders, and theater-savvy audiences – a unique effort that provides one-of-kind feedback to playwrights and invaluable audience response to prospective producers.

The play will receive the JPP’s featured workshop reading at the Theater at the 14th Street Y, 344 East 14th Street, on Wednesday, September 5th at 7:30 pm. Audiences can reserve tickets at www.jewishplaysproject.org or jewishplaysproject.eventbrite.com

One family. One holiday. Four millennia. The Levi-Katz family celebrates Passover again and again (and again and again) and while times, location, and languages change, traditions stay the same. Over matzah ball soup and (vegan) brisket, the close-knit clan contends with questions of race, religion, and inter-generational trauma. The present echoes the past—and the past the present—as the family repeatedly reenacts the exodus from Egypt, each time asking themselves: must we define ourselves through trauma? Will we ever be free? And why is this night different from all other nights?

For more information, click HERE!

Jewish Plays Project – In Every Generation

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In Every Generation

Jewish Plays Project | National Tour

By Ali Viterbi

The Jewish Plays Project just announced their Top 7 finalists for their 8th annual Jewish Playwriting Contest, including IN EVERY GENERATION. “Selected from over 150 submissions, these 7 plays point the way to the future of Jewish drama: vibrant, challenging, culturally-specific, yet universal.”

IN EVERY GENERATION will  tour to cities across North America, including Houston, Charlotte, Chicago, Hartford, Fairfax, Palo Alto, New York, and more! 

For more information, please visit the Jewish Plays Project tour website! 

 

In Every Generation

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In Every Generation

Wednesday, August 22nd @ 4pm

The Barrow Group | New York, NY

By Ali Viterbi

Directed by Gabrielle Hoyt

After two successful staged readings at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska and the North Coast Repertory Theatre in San Diego, IN EVERY GENERATION will have its first New York public reading at The Barrow Group!

IN EVERY GENERATION is a mystical journey through continents, languages and generations of a family and nation’s stories. An Italian Jewish family joins together for Passover Seders year after year, era to era. Over matzah ball soup and (vegan) brisket, sibling rivalries simmer, plagues fall, and miracles are both remembered and forgotten. IN EVERY GENERATION asks what happens to a people once they are no longer in danger? How does a community collectively adjust to freedom?

Period Sisters

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Period Sisters

August 24-25 @ 7pm, August 25-26 @2pm

SubletSeries@HERE | HERE Arts Center | New York, NY

 

By Ali Viterbi

Directed by Gabrielle Hoyt

Produced by Emma Hills

After freshman Joni joins sorority Theta Beta, she learns that sisterhood means more than the colors you wear. Accompanied by her troubled best friend Kate, Joni spirals down a rabbit hole of bulimia dream ballets, Bachelor restoration comedies, and Dirty Disney ragers. Confronted with a world that confounds her expectations, Joni forces all the members of Theta Beta to ask: what do women owe other women? Period Sisters, a 2018 O’Neill finalist, creates a searing portrait of life as a young, 21st century woman. A fierce new voice in the American theater, playwright Ali Viterbi mixes fun with fury, creating the feminist theater you didn’t know you needed.

For more info about the show, and to purchase tickets, click here. 

Tickets: $15