‘Title Wave: 2022 New Works Festival’

The line-up is set for Bay Street Theater’s upcoming “Title Wave: 2022 New Works Festival,” scheduled to take place Friday, May 6, through Sunday, May 8. This year, the festival will introduce two new musicals and two new plays over the course of the weekend, which will offer a showcase of cutting-edge theater, complete with staged readings, talkbacks, and critical discussion, providing a rare opportunity for directors and actors to work on their play in-person.

Selected from more than 600 submissions, the four plays selected are “Double Helix,” a musical by Madeline Myers (Friday, May 6, 8 p.m.); “Atacama,’ a play by Augusto Federico Amador (Saturday, May 7, 2 p.m.); “One Man Titanic,” a one-man musical with book by Scott Rothman, music by Joe Kinosian, and lyrics by Kellen Blair (Saturday, May 7, 8 p.m.); and “Zero State,” a play by Allison Moon (Sunday, May 8, 3 p.m.).

“I’m so excited that Bay Street is presenting our first fully live New Works Festival in three years, and it’s going to be a great one,” says Bay Street Artistic Director Scott Schwartz, “This is the first time ever we will be presenting two new musicals and two new plays in the Festival. All four works are by brilliant writers and are wildly different, but they all offer vivid explorations of what makes us human and of our deepest needs and desires. I can’t wait to welcome the East End Community back to our Festival as we kick off our fully live and in-person 2022 summer season.”

Tickets are available for a $10 fee that goes to supporting New Works initiatives at Bay Street Theater, or a Festival Pass with tickets to each performance can be purchased for $25. For tickets, call 631-725-9500 or visit baystreet.org. Bay Street Theater is on Long Wharf in Sag Harbor.

“Double Helix” By Madeline Myers

In the mid-20th century, the race to find the structure of DNA is on. “Double Helix” tells the story of Rosalind Franklin, a brilliant scientist who will stop at nothing to make one of the greatest discoveries of all time. But in a race, anything can happen, and hearts and minds are challenged and changed forever.

“Atacama” By Augusto Federico Amador

Thirty years after the dirty wars waged by the General Pinochet regime on the Chilean people, “Atacama” follows two strangers, a mother and a father, who search the Atacama Desert for their buried loved ones and discover there are darker truths awaiting them underneath the hard sands.

“One Man Titanic” With Book By Scott Rothman, Music By Joe Kinosian, Lyrics By Kellen Blair

“One Man Titanic” is an epic musical about the band that played on the Titanic, in which all five members of the band, as well as all the passengers and crew of the ship are played by the same actor, for reasons that become clear by the end of this moving comedy.

Zero State” By Allison Moon

“Zero State” tells the story of a neuroscientist who uses her revolutionary consciousness-transferal technology to inhabit her dead husband’s body, learning uncomfortable truths about her genius and her marriage.