This showcase of directorial aspiration features shoestring-budget stagings of classic and new works. Coordinated this year by Cecilie Keenan, the event offers the work of 48 directors (chosen from 60 applicants), most of whom you’ve never heard of before. In a brave effort to bring order to the affair, this year’s festival is organized along thematic lines: “World Premieres and New Voices” (April 4 through 7), “American Voices” (April 11 through 14), and “A Different Point of View” (April 18 through 21). Bailiwick Repertory, Theatre Building, 1225 W. Belmont, 327-5252. Through April 21: Sundays-Wednesdays, 7:30 PM. $8 per program (each program consists of three one-acts). The schedule for April 4 through 7 follows.
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Mike Dailey is both the director and coauthor (with composer Pat McCurdy) of this new musical comedy about relationships in a therapy group.
Three old friends go fishing in search of their past and their future, in Cynthia Huse’s staging of A.J. Skroska’s play.
Leah Ryan’s study of two runaways hitchhiking between New York and Colorado is directed by Edward Cheetham.
