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FIRST PERSON SHOOTER
By Aaron Loeb - Sacramento Premiere
September 20 – November 2, 2008
"Loeb's play is that rarity in theater: an insightful examination of current events that seems at once relevant and timeless." - Oakland Tribune |
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| This 2007 winner of the Bay Area Critics Award for “Best New Play” First Person Shooter takes us inside JetPack Games, a start-up video game company, where the hottest, most violesnt game on the market has brought instant success to its young tech geniuses. |
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Originally commissioned and developed by PlayGround / Jim Kleinmann, Artistic Director San Francisco, California
Originally co-produced by San Francisco Playhouse / Bill English, Artistic Director
and PlayGround / Jim Kleinmann, Artistic Director San Francisco, California |
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EVERY CHRISTMAS STORY EVER TOLD (AND THEN SOME!)
By Carleton, Alvarez, & Fitzgerald
November 20 – December 28, 2008
Back by popular demand!
“4 stars…there aren’t any more laughs in town…”
-Sacramento Bee
“…light, fast-moving, irreverent and fun…”
-Sacramento News & Review
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(Not included in Season Subscription Plans. Discounted subscriber-only tickets are available)
One more time! The Capital Stage sell-out holiday hit is back! Part Big Bang, part Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged, Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!) is a fast, fond, and furious look at the holiday traditions we all remember, and a few we'd like to forget. From Tiny Tim to the Grinch, from Frosty to It's a Wonderful Life, nothing is spared in this rollicking tour de farce! |
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THE SCENE
By Theresa Rebeck - Sacramento Premiere
January 17 – February 22, 2009
Award-winning playwright Rebeck (Bad Dates, Law and Order) examines the shifting power dynamics of personal relationships and the empty narcissism of American culture in this sexy and scathing comedy about dating, fame, fulfillment, and obsession with pop culture. Charlie, an out-of-work New York actor, is spiritually famished and morally adrift. Life is one dull party after another until Clea, a fresh-faced ingénue just off the bus from Ohio, enters the picture and upends the lives of three old friends. |
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MRS. WARREN’S PROFESSION
By George Bernard Shaw
March 21 – April 26, 2009
It took George Bernard Shaw eight years to get this brilliant, controversial play produced. In his famous "apology" for the script Shaw describes the "hysterical tumult of protest, of moral panic, of involuntary and frantic confession of sin" that ensued. This controversial attack on society's hypocrisy involves young Vivie Warren, emancipated, intelligent and self sufficient. Vivie is astounded to learn her mother rose from poverty to riches through prostitution---and also that she is now part owner and operator of a chain of brothels. |
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Khaled, an Arab-American writer and the focus of their inquiry, finds himself, to his astonishment, suddenly accused of possible ties to terrorists. As the interrogation proceeds, the officials reveal their evidence, but is it evidence? Or have innocent events been distorted through the lens of paranoid suspicion? |
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A WORLD PREMIERE TBA FROM CAPITAL STAGE’S PLAYWRIGHTS’ REVOLUTION
July 11 – August 16, 2009
Be a part of history when Capital Stage presents its first world premiere. One of the plays chosen from the June 2008 Playwrights‟ Revolution will get a full and complete staging with a decidedly Capital Stage spin.
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