Sunday May 17th
Hosted by the Shanna Bryan Glazer JCC
2026 Festival Showcase Finalists
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Oklahoma Samovar
12:00pm
Blue Side Up
2:30pm
Scouts
5:00pm
All Readings are Pay-what-you-can General Admission with a recommendation of $5.00 (per ticket).
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(That technically means you don't have to pay anything, but every little bit helps us to continue making this festival come to life every year.)
Reserved Seating: $10 (per ticket) gets you a reserved seat right up next to the action!
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The All Access Pass: $20 (per ticket), gets you reserved seats to all our PlayFest Readings!
(and there's a $25 All Access Ticket, for those who want to show a bit more love for the arts!)
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2026 Festival Showcase Finalist
Oklahoma Samovar
Written by Alice Eve Cohen
Directed by Kara Gold-Harris
Performance time:
Sunday, May 17th, @ 12:00pm
n 1887, two Latvian teenagers flee the Russian Army and become the only Jews in the Oklahoma Land Run. A hundred years later, twenty-year-old Emily tries to decipher her late mother’s mysterious request to have her ashes spread on a stranger’s farm, in a place she has never heard of. Inspired by the playwright’s ancestors, the only Jews in the 1889 Oklahoma Land Run, the play wrestles with themes of immigration, assimilation, generational trauma, and the transcendent power of mother-daughter love. In Oklahoma Samovar, five generations put down roots and dig graves, embodying their own Jewish variations on the turbulent and mythologized American Dream.
All Seats are Pay-What-You-Can Donation
$10 for reserved seating, per person
Oklahoma Samovar is appropriate for all ages
Run time is approximately 85 mins with no intermission
Blue Side Up is recommended for ages 7+
It contains some mature themes
Run time is approximately 85 mins with no intermission
2026 Festival Showcase Finalist
Blue Side Up
Written by Len Cuthbert
Directed by Cory Kennedy Barrow
Performance time:
Sunday, May 17th, 2:30pm
At a small-town airport, four lives intersect—Jade, a fiercely independent college student scarred by abandonment; Mick, a young pilot juggling aircraft and guardianship of his spirited teen sister Dee-J; and Delilah, the compassionate roommate caught in Jade’s orbit. As their friendships and tensions soar and stall, they discover that life’s turbulence can make it hard to keep the blue side up.
All Seats are Pay-What-You-Can Donation
$10 for reserved seating, per person
2026 Festival Showcase Finalist
Scouts
Written by Catherine Epstein
Directed by John M. Perez
Performance time:
Sunday, May 17th, @ 5:00 pm
Over spring break of their senior year, teenage friends Ethan and Casey plant trees for a Boy Scout project. When a new kid arrives unexpectedly to help, he rattles their friendship and provokes new dilemmas for all three young men. Grappling with unstable families, shared grief, and an abandoned baby rabbit, the boys continue planting in the hopes of winning a prized scholarship. When their friendship reaches a breaking point and they discover a mistake that undermines the entire project, they’re forced to confront the complexity of caring for the world and each other.
All Seats are Pay-What-You-Can Donation
$10 for reserved seating, per person
Scouts is recommended for ages 13+
It contains Mature Themes and Language
Run time is approximately 85 mins with no intermission
Matt and Mary Gordan
Hal Freedman &
Willi Rudowsky
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The ThinkTank Theatre
Board of Directors
Andrea Graham &
Geoff Simons
