NORTH TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS NEWS

First Impressions is a festival for local playwrights which allows emerging playwrights to develop their plays and network with other artists in the community through table reads and Q&A sessions. The hope of Imprint Theatreworks is to cultivate the talent in DFW and develop their original work.

The festival will take place from February 21st - 24th in the Lake Level space at the Bath House Cultural Center (521 E Lawther Dr, Dallas, TX 75218). You have the option of either buying a day pass for $10 or a festival pass for $35. For more information and tickets, visit https://imprinttheatreworks.org.

Here is the complete schedule:

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 21

7 p.m. — Reception

7:30 p.m. — Q&A with festival playwrights

8:30 p.m. — PERAMBULATORY: preambleastory by Haley Nelson

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22

6:30 p.m. — Reception

7 p.m. — Killing Oscar by Jacie Hood

8 p.m. — Q&A: The Dramaturgy Process with Kyle Eric Bradford

9 p.m. — College Nights by Dominic J Pecikonis

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 23

6:30 p.m. — Reception

7 p.m. — Another Set of Issues by August Riehle

8:15 p.m. — Sauced by Nicole Neely

9 p.m. — Suckers by Devin Berg

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 24

2 p.m. — The Crickets’ Lunch by Elaine Liner

3:30 p.m. — Mother’s Goose is cooked and other Nursing Rhymes from the Oldshue Retirement Home by Ruth Cantrell

5:30 p.m. — Q&A: I Wrote a Play, Now What? With Bruce R. Roleman and Shane Strawbridge

7 p.m. — Blonde Ambition by Lindsay Hayward

8 p.m. — The Best (Wo)Man by Shane Strawbridge