New Wave Theatre Company NFP

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<h3 fr-original-style="" style="width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;">New Wave Theatre Company welcomes you to the Bad Draft Reading Series!</h3> New Wave Theatre Company wants to see your &quot;worst&quot; play and put it on its feet for a one night only staged reading... <h3 fr-original-style="" style="width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;">Our Sixth Play in the bad draft reading series is...&nbsp;</h3>The Pi(e) Guy by David Lipschutz After a humiliating incident puts timid math professor Archie Medes on leave, he returns home to his mother&rsquo;s pie shop and becomes entangled in a murder case involving his former high school bully. Using mathematical reasoning and unexpected courage, Archie uncovers that the victim&rsquo;s cryptic dying words point not to poison, but to a fatal allergic reaction caused by a newly installed &ldquo;expansion&rdquo; litter box&mdash;transforming him into an unlikely local detective. AND An Enchilada at the End of Everything by Alex Kingsley In a frozen post-apocalyptic wasteland outside an abandoned Taco Bell, two lonely survivors pass the time with dark humor, memories of the old world, and fantasies about comfort food and normal life. When Jesus arrives to perform the Rapture and finds no worthy souls left, their conversation reveals that what they truly crave is not salvation but familiarity, connection, and something warm to hold onto at the end of everything. two staged readings followed by a talkback with the playwrights! <h3 fr-original-style="" style="width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;">what is BDRS?</h3><h4 fr-original-style="" style="width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;">Here, a bad draft&nbsp;is better than no draft at all.</h4>In a world where a chatbot can spit out &quot;art&quot;, a play written by a human is 1000x better than something with no soul, even if it has been collecting dust in your Google drive .With the Bad Draft Reading Series, New Wave gladly celebrates<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;" value="1">plays that haven&rsquo;t been touched in a while</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;" value="2">plays that&#39;ve been abandoned</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;" value="3">plays the playwrights&#39; use to love but now hate</li></ul>So let&#39;s see how &quot;bad&quot; your play really is...

Hello! Thank you for registering for our sixth installment of the Bad Draft Reading Series, The Pi(e) Guy by David Lipschutz and An Enchilada at the End of Everything by Alex Kingsley. If you have any questions about your reservation, please let us know by emailing us at <a fr-original-style="" href="mailto:info@newwavetheatreco.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: initial; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">info@newwavetheatreco.org</a>.&nbsp; We look forward to seeing you. Cheers! New Wave Theatre Company<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1758670311/wysiwyg/uqz7sg2vrtvfptvxv4kl.png" style="width: 95px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto 5px 0px; text-align: left; position: relative; max-width: 100%; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 95px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto 5px 0px; text-align: left;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">

New Wave Theatre Company welcomes you to the Bad Draft Reading Series! New Wave Theatre Company wants to see your "worst" play and put it on its feet for a one night only staged reading... Our Sixth Play in the bad draft reading series is... The Pi(e) Guy by David Lipschutz After a humiliating incident puts timid math professor Archie Medes on leave, he returns home to his mother’s pie shop and becomes entangled in a murder case involving his former high school bully. Using mathematical reasoning and unexpected courage, Archie uncovers that the victim’s cryptic dying words point not to poison, but to a fatal allergic reaction caused by a newly installed “expansion” litter box—transforming him into an unlikely local detective. AND An Enchilada at the End of Everything by Alex Kingsley In a frozen post-apocalyptic wasteland outside an abandoned Taco Bell, two lonely survivors pass the time with dark humor, memories of the old world, and fantasies about comfort food and normal life. When Jesus arrives to perform the Rapture and finds no worthy souls left, their conversation reveals that what they truly crave is not salvation but familiarity, connection, and something warm to hold onto at the end of everything. two staged readings followed by a talkback with the playwrights! what is BDRS?Here, a bad draft is better than no draft at all.In a world where a chatbot can spit out "art", a play written by a human is 1000x better than something with no soul, even if it has been collecting dust in your Google drive .With the Bad Draft Reading Series, New Wave gladly celebrates<ul><li>plays that haven’t been touched in a while</li><li>plays that've been abandoned</li><li>plays the playwrights' use to love but now hate</li></ul>So let's see how "bad" your play really is...

New Wave Theatre Company NFP

Bad Draft Reading Series #6: "The Pi(e) Guy" by David Lipschutz and "An Enchilada at the End of Everything" by Alex Kingsley

1138 N California Ave

General Admission

$7

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