Serving Hudson Valley Playwrights in their creative process
2026 New Play Readings Announced
For our new plays in 20206 we are thrilled to be hosted by two wonderful theatres.
All six of our Sunday 3:00pm readings will be hosted by the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild at the Byrdcliffe Theatre. 380 Upper Byrdclffe Road, Woodstock.
All six of our Monday 7:00pm readings will be hosted by Bridge Street Theatre, 44 West Bridge Street, Catskill.
Meet the playwrights for 2026 – the variety of this season is really exiting in both style and subject matter so get the dates in your calendar and we’ll see you this summer.
Sunday June 14, 3:00pm & Monday June 15, 7:00pm
Nathan Johnson – The Dummies Guide to Murdering Your Husband –
A pair of filthy rich and disgruntled husbands escape for a romantic getaway in a remote mountain cabin unaware that each has hatched a plot to murder the other. If you’ve ever loved someone so much but still thought, “I could murder him”—welcome home.
Sunday June 28, 3:00pm & Monday June 29, 7:00pm
Jason Wang – Play-Off
The Super Bowl has begun, everyone is hyped and ready to watch. In this comedy-drama, old friends, and new friends, fight old battles, begin new ones, learn secrets and choose sides. Some still try to enjoy this one night event.
Sunday July 12, 3:00pm & Monday July 13, 7:00pm
Timothy Brown & Daniel Chadwick – Loving Vivian, A New Musical
At 82, Vivian, a legendary singer, actress, and songwriter, is incommunicative with dementia. When she moves into her daughter, Eleanor’s home, everyone in the family is excited, except Eleanor. When her son brings home an avid Vivian fan and would-be biographer who knows how to get Vivian talking lucidly about her checkered past, Eleanor becomes even more uneasy. What secrets might be revealed?
Sunday July 26, 3:00pm & Monday July 27, 7:00pm
Paul Allman – The Goodness Robot
A devastating explosion kills hundreds of people and collapses a building. Searchers are looking for survivors. A robot designed for such emergencies – The Goodness Robot – is dispatched to the scene of the crime. Her name is Shelley, and she is fearless by design.
Sunday August 9, 3:00pm & Monday August 10, 7:00pm
Stephen Kaplan – Let There Be
In 1883, two women—one married to the scientist inventing the lightbulb, the other to the reverend resisting it—sit down over birthday cake to debate the future. Sides aren’t what you expect and parlor talk jolts from lightbulbs to AI in a reality-bending collision of past, present, and the terrifying hope of technology racing faster than we can reckon with.
Sunday August 23, 3:00pm & Monday August 24, 7:00pm
Daniel Pink – Julia C
A razor-sharp reimagining of Julius Caesar set inside a soaring AI startup. When Emor AI’s CEO slips an absolute-power clause into the company’s IPO filing, her co-founders face a brutal choice: loyalty or revolt? At once a hilarious sendup of corporate culture and a searing exploration of power in the algorithm age, Julia C asks: In a world where truth is malleable and leadership is a brand, who deserves to rule?
Round The Bend Theatre is a mobile theater company with a mission to encourage Hudson Valley playwrights and their work in development. Through the process of readings and reflection a variety of new and inclusive voices are nurtured for future work.
Round The Bend Theatre is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization