New Play Festival: The Plays

WHERE — Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (600 Museum Way, Bentonville, 657-2335) and TheatreSquared (505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville, 445-6333) COST — $10

“Blanket Statements” — By the LatinX Theatre Project, will be the festival’s workshop production, receiving both a staged reading at Crystal Bridges and, later, a fully staged production at TheatreSquared. It’s a devised work created by the members of the company, under the mentorship of Ashley Edwards.

WHEN — 2 p.m. March 30, Crystal Bridges Museum; 1 p.m. April 7, TheatreSquared

“Ain’t I a Woman” — By Na’Tosha De’Von, is a one-woman show that is “a funny, heartfelt story of the woes and wonders encountered by girls on the journey to womanhood, as seen through the eyes of the playwright and performer.” De’Von is currently an MFA acting student at the University of Arkansas.

WHEN — 11 a.m. March 30, Crystal Bridges Museum; 2 p.m. April 6, TheatreSquared

“Carlo at the Wedding” — By Bryna Turner, is a “comic and heartfelt play about a woman attending an ex’s wedding.” Turner is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose play “Bull in a China Shop” premiered at Lincoln Center, where it was a New York Times Critic’s Pick.

WHEN — 4:30 p.m. March 30, Crystal Bridges Museum; 7:30 p.m. April 5, TheatreSquared

“He Did It” — By Rachel Lynett, is a story about three friends who “are about to get the green light from a major production company. They’re about to get everything they ever wanted. Except that Jefferson has been recently accused of violent crimes. Ada and Lex both know he did it. Now, they both must decide what’s more important: their career success or ending a vicious cycle?” Lynett is an Arkansas-based playwright whose work has been featured at the Kennedy Center and Barrington Stage Company.

WHEN — 6:30 p.m. March 29, Crystal Bridges Museum; 5 p.m. April 6, TheatreSquared

“Teen Dad” — By Adrienne Dawes, “subverts the popular regional theater ‘kitchen-sink beach house play,’ when Abby, a precocious emo-goth teenager, orchestrates a surprise reunion for her mother, Tanya, and birth father, Tom, with the help of her mom’s fiance/ healer, John.” Dawes is an Afro-Latina playwright originally from Austin who studied comedy at The Second City in Chicago.

WHEN — 3:30 p.m. April 7, TheatreSquared

The Young Playwrights’ Showcase — Will feature the top plays from teens from all over the state.

WHEN — 11 a.m. April 6, TheatreSquared INFO — theatre2.org