Premiere Stages At Kean University Announces Readings Of Premiere Play Festival Finalists The Festival is an annual competition for unproduced scripts that offers developmental opportunities to playwrights.by BWW News Desk Premiere Stages has announced public readings of three of the 2020 Play Festival Finalists, which had been postponed in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions. The Festival is an annual competition for unproduced scripts that offers developmental opportunities to playwrights with strong affiliations to New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Delaware. The readings will be held virtually via Zoom and are free to the public. A live Q&A with the playwrights will follow each reading.