Red Bull Theater - New York City's "most exciting classical theater"- for the first time ever offers a published collection featuring the best of its annual Short New Play Festival. This ongoing series features 10-minute plays of heightened language and classical themes by today's hottest writers, including commissions by established playwrights such as John Guare, David Ives, Regina Taylor, and Anne Washburn, and winning entries by writers such as Mike Anderson, Sam Lahne, Lynn Rosen, and Jen Silverman- all chosen from a competition that receives nearly 300 submissions each year. In the hands of great playwrights, the 10-minute play is a highly entertaining dramatic form. This collection offers the most delectable of these delightfully compact works - some downright silly, and others powerfully moving - from Red Bull Theater's Short New Play Festival.

Red Bull Shorts Volume 2

Literature & Fiction

IVES, David

Portman, Bridgette Dutta

Red Bull Theater

Holden, Arthur

Kenton, William

Lau, Tabia

Lloyd, Patricia Ione

Miller, Winter

Oswald, Peter

Platt, Jason Gray

Dramas & Plays

Steele Spring Stage Rights

A troubled teen. A magic journal. A portal to another world.\n"Lucasfilm-esque...[A] strong start to a space saga." -- Kirkus ReviewsOlive Joshi is an imaginative sixteen-year-old with OCD. She checks and double-checks that the stove burners are off, avoids driving for fear of causing an accident, and constantly worries about hurting the people she loves. Olive finds refuge from her anxiety in writing stories about Coseema, a magical princess on the distant planet Lyria. Coseema is fearless, confident, powerful, and perfect -- everything Olive thinks she’ll never be.\nWhen she falls through a portal into her own abandoned story, Olive finds herself in a world in peril: double suns scorch the planet, the brutal Prince Burnash seeks supreme power, and Coseema has gone into hiding. Bringing back her heroine might be Olive's only hope of saving Lyria and finding her way home. But when her attempt to summon Coseema goes horribly wrong, it's Olive who must flee for her life. Together with her friends -- a bold and powerful poet, a handsome but cursed musician, a renegade soldier with a troubled past, and an adventurous girl from the desert -- Olive must face her deepest fears to escape Burnash's tyranny. With the fate of a star system on the line, can Olive find the hero in herself?\nThe Twin Stars is an engrossing new portal fantasy in the spirit of the Wizard of Oz, the Neverending Story, and the Chronicles of Narnia, with a dash of Star Wars and a sprinkling of Dune. Fans of space fantasy, coming-of-age adventures, unexpected twists and turns, and novels about mental health and self-confidence will love this unique tale about facing what frightens us most.\nWhat readers are saying:\n★★★★★ "Portman executes a marvelous debut novel, one which will have readers clamoring for installment number two immediately!" -- Amazon review\n★★★★★ "A book that will be cherished." -- Amazon review\n★★★★★ "A gripping sci-fi fantasy with powerful themes and high stakes... The second book in this series can’t come soon enough! I’m hooked!" -- Amazon review\n★★★★★ "Portman does a brilliant job helping the reader experience what it is like to have OCD. It truly is a wonderful representation." -- Goodreads review\n★★★★★ "I. NEED. BOOK. TWO." -- Goodreads review

The Twin Stars (The Coseema Saga)

Teen & Young Adult

Titan1Studios

A looming supernova. A long-lost starship. A hero turned evil.\n"[R]eaders should be sufficiently hooked to follow the vivid, ominous threads into the next volume. An engaging installment of a complicated SF/fantasy series about a besieged writer." -- Kirkus Reviews\n"[A] gorgeously penned emotional journey ... The Silver Sail is a must-read for fans of the first novel, and the series, in general, would be a fantastic recommendation for young adult readers seeking an emotive and relatable protagonist." -- Readers' Favorite (5-star review)\nOlive Joshi never meant to fall through a portal into her own abandoned novel, much less kill her protagonist and resurrect her as a villain. Now she’s on the run in a universe quickly spiraling out of her control.\nAfter narrowly escaping Coseema with her life, Olive and her friends head for a distant planet in search of the legendary starship the Wave-Rider, which may be the only hope for the doomed people of Lyria. But the voyage there is littered with obstacles—the tyrannical ruler of a dying colony, a mysterious spacefarer, the ever-present threat of Coseema, and Olive’s own obsessive fears. Back on Lyria, Olive’s allies face obstacles of their own as they vie with the cruel emperor Burnash, while Burnash himself chafes under Coseema’s control. Olive, armed with her omniscient journal, finds comfort in reading along with her friends’ adventures. But when time runs out, she must embark on a risky collision course with her former heroine, one that may force her to give up what she treasures most.\nThe Silver Sail, Book Two of the Coseema Saga, is a must-read for fans of portal fantasy, space opera, coming-of-age adventures, and novels about mental health, self-esteem, friendship, and courage in the face of uncertainty.\nWhat readers are saying:\n★★★★★ "Surprising and shocking twists make this action-packed fantasy thought-provoking and tantalizing."\n★★★★★ "I stayed up thinking about the ending for weeks after I finished"\n★★★★★ "[A]n outstanding sci-fi/fantasy novel that will appeal to a wide range of readers"\n★★★★★ "It was jammed-packed with exciting scenes, character development was blown off the charts on all of the characters, main and side ones, and the ending left you ready and waiting for the third and last book in the series."

The Silver Sail (The Coseema Saga)

Titan1 Studios

Red Bull Theater - New York City's "most exciting classical theater" - offers the 5th volume of collected plays from its popular annual Short New Play Festival. It features sixteen 10-minute plays of heightened language and classical themes by today's hottest writers, from commissions by established playwrights Kia Corthron, Marcus Gardley, and Theresa Rebeck, to winning entries by writers such as Leah Maddrie, Matthew Park, Bridgette Dutta Portman, and Matthew Wells, chosen from a competition that receives nearly 300 submissions each year. In the hands of great playwrights, the 10-minute play is a highly entertaining dramatic form. These delightfully compact works - some downright silly, and others powerfully moving - are from the ninth and tenth years of Red Bull Theater's Short New Play Festival. Dive in and enjoy! Authors include: Kate Abbruzzese, Ben Beckley, Kia Corthron, Avery Deutsch, Marcus Gardley, Terry Glaser, Leah Maddrie, Talene Monahan, Matthew Park, Eric Pfeffinger, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Theresa Rebeck, David Lerner Schwartz, Matthew Wells, Mallory Jane Weiss, Sofya Levitsky Weitz.

Red Bull Shorts Volume 5

Rebeck, Theresa

Corthron, Kia

Gardley, Marcus

Wells, Matthew

Abbruzzese, Kate

Beckley, Ben

Pfeffinger, Eric

Weiss, Mallory Jane

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