Showcasing Georgia’s Best Playwrights
2022
Essential Theatre
Play Festival
July 29-August 28
Essential is back to our usual time slot this summer, bringing you the 2022 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award winner, A Complicated Hope by John Mabey, alongside Daniel Carter Brown’s The Outrage Machine, one of the 2020 Playwriting Award winners whose production had to be postponed.
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Named Best New Play Incubator by Atlanta Magazine in 2018, Essential Theatre has given Georgia playwrights a voice for the past twenty-two years, producing 30+ World Premieres and helping launch the careers of nation-wide successes like Topher Payne and Lauren Gunderson.
In the press:
Essential Theatre to Present 23rd Summer Play Festival
You won’t want to miss ANY of what we’ve got in store for you at the 2022 Essential Theatre Play Festival:
2022 Festival Plays
Opening Friday July 29 – A satiric drama that explores internet journalism, social media, and the culture of outrage – Co-Winner of the 2020 Essential …
Opening Friday August 5 – A play about hope, shining a light on the darkest corners of grief – Winner of the 2022 Essential Theatre …
One night only: August 18 – Hush Harbor Lab presents The Wash, by K. D. Smith
Based on true events, The Wash is the intimate and often funny …
Join us on August 9, 10, and 22 for developmental readings of three new plays. Thanks to support from Georgia Humanities, all readings in the …
Join Us!
July 29-August 28
Live, in person, at the Fulton County Arts & Culture West End Performing Arts Center, the festival’s home since 2014.
West End Performing Arts Center
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