The second round of recipients for the 2024-25 Edgerton Foundation New Play Awards was recently announced by Theatre Communications Group (TCG). These awards, totaling $463,000, provide extra development and rehearsal time for 10 innovative new plays, helping to extend their lives beyond world premieres.
Here’s a sneak peek at three new works now in development.
The Suffragette’s Murder by Sandy Rustin (Denver Center Theatre Company)
In this 1848 period comedy, the boarders at a vegetarian boarding house in Manhattan ready themselves to pull off an elaborate scheme in the name of the budding women’s movement, only to come face-to-face with the news of the untimely death of one of their fellow suffragists.
The Brightening Air by Conor McPherson (The Old Vic)
Set in 1980s Ireland and follows brother and sister Stephen and Billie, whose lives are upended by an “ex-clergyman uncle with an unscrupulous plan, a sister-in-law seeking a miracle, and a prodigal brother hell-bent on trouble.”
¡VOS! by Christina Pumariega (Two River Theater)
Annie returns to her estranged birthplace of Buenos Aires to undergo IVF treatments from the famed Dr. Cossi. But her motherhood journey brings to light the lives of two women lost to the Dirty War decades ago. Past and present intertwine as four women hunt down their destiny.