{"id":149826,"date":"2026-03-27T07:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/149826\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:17:14","slug":"theatre-by-development-presents-new-play-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/149826\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre by Development Presents New Play Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theatre by Development (TBD) has announced it will present CLIPPINGS &#8217;26: A New Play Festival during Philly Theatre Week, April 23-26. CLIPPINGS &#8217;26 will be held at the Walnut Street Theater Independence Studio on 3, at 825 Walnut St. in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/philadelphia\/regional\/Clippings--26A-New-Play-Festival-4364617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">According to a Broadway World\u00a0report<\/a>, CLIPPINGS &#8217;26 aims to spotlight emerging talent, encourage risk-taking and artistic exploration, and continue the Equinox New Play Festival tradition of supporting UArtists and new voices in theater. The festival will present short plays by young and emerging <a href=\"https:\/\/philadelphianewsroom.com\/2026\/03\/26\/get-growing-at-lancaster-county-plant-sales-and-swaps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Philadelphia<\/a> area based playwrights in a reading format.<\/p>\n<p>Audiences will encounter presentations from notable works, including \u201cThe Dissection of One Billy Burke\u201d by Sophia Snyder, \u201cGay Book Club&#8217;s Worst Read of the Year\u201d by Erin Malimban, and \u201cHey! What&#8217;s the Big Idea?\u201d by Seph McAndrew.<\/p>\n<p>More information about Theatre by Development is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatrebydevelopment.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">on its website<\/a> and on Instagram @theatrebydevelopment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Theatre by Development (TBD) has announced it will present CLIPPINGS &#8217;26: A New Play Festival during Philly Theatre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-149826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}