One script, Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin’s “Tiger Beat,” is fully immersed in the trucker-hat era of early 2000s pop music, a time when it was socially acceptable for a music exec to tell an Asian American singer to wear a trashy kimono.

另一个，约翰尼G.劳埃德的“魔法问题，是”，在侏儒悖论中欣赏。“我同时体验一切;我是一切;而且我没有，“在黑暗中发出的早期线，在向绅士街区的魔术店传送到魔术店之前。

These plays constitute just two of the inventive readings in this year’s Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival, the storied institution that’s been boosting new writers’ careers since 1976. Many of its alums go on to become legends, but the festival’s real draw is the chance to see where American theater might go next, before other audiences do.

今年的读数在线，票价来自早期时代。

湾区剧作家节：下午5:30。星期五，7月16日;上午11:30和下午5:30。星期六 - 星期日，7月17日至18日。到7月25日。5-20美元。415-626-2176。www.playwrightsfoundation.org.