New Ground Theatre Festival

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The Cleveland Play House Literary Department each year receives hundreds of new play submissions of extraordinary merit, and more than we’ll ever be able to produce. We have the exciting opportunity to share these riches with the Cleveland theatre community by connecting good plays and talented playwrights with fellow theatre companies who might provide a home for them.

This year, we’ve invited local companies to present a play reading during New Ground on one night of the festival. The hope is that the reading will serve as a “test run” to see how actors and audiences respond to the play, perhaps prompting the company to give the play a full production in a subsequent season. We hope you’ll join us as we make new connections, present new voices, and enjoy some new plays!