23rd ANNUAL New Works Festival
Our 2025 New Works Festival is over and was a great success! More information for our 2026 New Works Festival coming this Spring.
It’s in our DNA at TheatreWorks to gather our friends and family and build community around the creation of new plays for the American theatre. Plays that celebrate the human condition – stories that build understanding, that entertain, that take us to new surroundings, new emotions, and new heights!
GET YOUR Pass
Want to see it all? Try a FESTIVAL PASS!
Subscribers: $90
Non-subscribers: $95
Each pass entitles you to a ticket to one performance of each of this year’s five shows during the Aug 7–16 Festival.
*Festival Passes do not include Cut From Away or Every Brilliant Thing.
Have a particular show in mind? Get your Tix!
INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE TICKETS
$25*
You can buy individual tickets to any of our readings for $25 a piece! Just click the button of the show you’re interested in seeing below.
*Does not include Cut From Away or Every Brilliant Thing special events.
Every Brilliant thing
STARRING MARISKA HARGITAY
Fri, Aug 7, 7pm
Sat, Aug 8, 2pm
Sat, Aug 8, 7pm
Mariska Hargitay (NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) will kick off TheatreWorks’ 23rd Annual New Works Festival, performing in a benefit presentation of the tour de force solo show Every Brilliant Thing.
Direct from her Broadway engagement in the hit show written by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe and as co-directed on Broadway by Macmillan and Jeremy Herrin, Hargitay will offer Bay Area audiences the opportunity to experience her acclaimed portrayal of this one person tour de force. Proceeds will benefit TheatreWorks and Joyful Heart Foundation, which has a local San Francisco Bay Area Committee. Joyful Heart Foundation is an organization founded by Hargitay that supports survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse.
A Special One Night Only Event
CUT FROM AWAY
Friday, Aug 14
6PM Dinner | 8PM Show
Witness the “stranded” songs, stories, and characters that were cut from the final Broadway production of Come From Away. Join creators Irene Sankoff and David Hein at the table and take a “Gander” into the playwriting process at this fundraising event benefitting TheatreWorks.
Dinner tickets are now sold out. Contact events@theatreworks.org for more information. Show-only tickets are still available.
NWF KICKOFF EVENT
staged readings
ROJA
By Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman
Fusing traditional, Mexican folk music and Mestizo folklore, Roja is a new twist on the Little Red Riding Hood story. An enchanting journey of love, loss, and resilience, set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution.
Sun, Aug 9, 3pm
Thu, Aug 13, 7:30pm
Sun, Aug 16, 3pm
floor 37
By Margot Melcon
Isa is on the elevator in her office building when the elevator fails and she suddenly and unexpectedly experiences an unimaginable catastrophic event. With time and support, Isa finds a way to live alongside worries and “what ifs,” and finds her community along the w
Tue, Aug 11, 7:30pm
Sat, Aug 15, 12pm
Interested in all? Grab a Festival Pass!
Each pass entitles you to a ticket to one (1) performance of each of this year’s five shows.
Thank you to our festival sponsors!
