Showcasing Opportunities

Public readings of new and in-progress works by PARC playwrights and invited guests held annually in all four Atlantic Canadian provinces.

These informal gatherings allow playwrights to share their work with the public and each other.

Typically, cabarets each year are held in the central hubs of Halifax, St. John’s, Charlottetown, and Saint John or Fredericton.

Cabarets are organized and hosted by provincial reps. Contact your rep (see Board info) if you are interested in participating.

An occasional event featuring several playwrights reading excerpts of new works or complete readings of new scripts, addressing the presentation of new works to potential producers. These readings are usually held as part of a script development workshop or part of a new play Reading Series in a producing theatre’s season. Theatre companies that have hosted new play readings include: Festival Antigonish, Eastern Front Theatre, Ship’s Company Theatre, Live Bait Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, Mulgrave Road, Watermark Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Highland Arts Theatre and RCA Theatre. Readings also happen as part of the Women’s Work Festival, EFT Stages Festival, TNB’s Fall Festival and the Island Fringe Festival.