POP!By Cianon JonesPart of Iowa New Play Festival – Reading SeriesPOP! explores the proximity of humanity and nature through a forest that is very much alive and deliriously in danger.Please be advised this reading includes mentions/portrayals/inferences to carnage, murder, human cruelty, animal cruelty, blood, death, drug use, destruction, questionable things of the natural and unnatural world.Guest Roundtable to follow.TicketsUI Students (with ID) – Free, limit 1 ticket per studentGeneral...

LARPlayBy Randy Jackson-AlvarengaPart of Iowa New Play Festival – Reading SeriesLARPlay follows Ash, a stubborn non-gamer recovering from a near-death experience, who is reluctantly pulled into a LARP designed by her late childhood friend. As she struggles with grief and the fear of her own mortality, the fantasy world begins to feel more real. Forcing her to confront what it truly means to fight, to play, and to keep living.Please be advised this reading includes references to heart attacks...

TerminalBy Emily Kaufman-BellPart of Iowa New Play Festival – Reading SeriesA girl about to leave for college is compelled to navigate her grief in the landscape of her own mind with the help of her younger sister.Please be advised this play contains depictions of cancer and death.Guest Roundtable to follow.TicketsUI Students (with ID) – Free, limit 1 ticket per studentGeneral Admission – Free, but you must obtain a ticketTickets go on sale Monday, May 5 at noon, at the Theatre Building box...

This is My BodyBy Darrin TerpstraPart of Iowa New Play Festival – Reading SeriesIn Southern Baptist Suburbia, a pastor grapples with his failing health and faith as he falls in love with his fellow pastor.Please be advised this reading includes homophobia and terminal illness.Guest Roundtable to follow.TicketsUI Students (with ID) – Free, limit 1 ticket per studentGeneral Admission – Free, but you must obtain a ticketTickets go on sale Monday, May 5 at noon, at the Theatre Building box office...

Go!By Adrian EnzastigaPart of Iowa New Play Festival – Reading SeriesIn the amazing world of "Punymon Go!" expert trainers form lasting friendships with their creature companions, go on glorious adventures to improve their skills, and team up to battle an ultra-serious gaming addiction.Please be advised this reading includes sexual content and references to suicide.Guest Roundtable to follow.TicketsUI Students (with ID) – Free, limit 1 ticket per studentGeneral Admission – Free, but you must...

The Milk MiracleBy Poonam DhirPart of Iowa New Play Festival – Reading SeriesThe Milk Miracle centers on a playwright navigating questions of identity, place, and belonging—both personal and cultural—while writing a story about a family struggling with grief, community expectations, and the weight of tradition. The play explores the layered tensions between the act of writing and the forces that shape a story’s creation.Please be advised this production includes discussions of death, brief...