Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, President/CEO, in memoriam; Scott Ellis, Interim Artistic Director) has announced the 2024 Roundabout Underground Reading Series, a five-night event that includes nightly readings of new works written by emerging artists, with post-show receptions. The Reading Series will feature new works by Dylan Guerra, Matthew Libby, Alex Lin, Ankita Raturi, and Arun Welandawe-Prematilleke. The series will run Feb 12 – 16 at 5:00PM at the Black Box Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center (111 West 46th St). The lineup is as follows THE GRIEF EATER NEAR NORTH BENDER by Dylan Guerra, directed by Dustin Wills on Mon Feb 12. People are getting eaten, others are losing their memory; the Grief Eater is back in North Bender with a vengeance. It's up to Byron and his thrown-together team of aggressive, half-drunk, selfish, heartbroken North Bender citizens to stop the monster before it devours the existence of everyone they love; NO ONE PLAYS BADMINTON IN AMERICA by Ankita Raturi, directed by Rebecca Wear on Tues Feb 13. Citra and Melati are highly ranked youth badminton players, ready to represent Indonesia internationally. While Melati starts traveling to play in major tournaments on her own, Citra immigrates with her family to Washington D.C., leaving her badminton dreams behind. As they navigate coming of age, each has what the other wants; DATA by Matthew Libby, co-directed by Adam Coy and Tyne Rafaeli on Wed Feb 14. Maneesh is a brilliant entry-level programmer at Athena Technologies, a prominent data-mining firm in Silicon Valley. Content to work in the low-stress environment of User Experience, Maneesh has a crisis of conscience when he is offered a transfer to the more-central Data Analytics team, and learns the true nature of Athena’s work. CHINESE REPUBLICANS by Alex Lin on Thurs Feb 15. When high-flying finance it-girl Katie Liu loses the promotion of a lifetime to a nepo-baby colleague, she embarks on a treacherous endeavor to make a labor union out of her Republican work aunties; THE PRESENT by  Arun Welandawe-Prematilleke, directed by Devin E. Haqq on Fri Feb 16.  On an island in the Indian Ocean there is no past, only the present. Progress moves at rapid speed and a new high-rise pops up almost daily over the remains of the old city, until digging for foundations leads to the digging up of ghosts. For more information, please visit www.roundabouttheatre.org. Press contact: Polk & Co (917/261-3988)...