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It Can’t Happen Here Corrupt politicians align with corporate powerbrokers to subdue the populace in an election season. Sinclair Lewis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work is adapted into a dramatic theater piece produced and performed by San Francisco’s Z Space Studio players in hopes of getting out the vote.
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Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare Conspiracy, political murder, cover-ups, betrayal. The ultimate election season theater. With an all-star cast Richard Dreyfuss, Stacy Keach, Paul Winfield, Kelsey Grammer, and JoBeth Williams.
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Loma Prieta: 15 years later. taking a look at life in precarious balance along the restless Pacific rim faultlines.
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In the Name of Security: The Trials of Alger Hiss, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and J. Robert Oppenheimer. Throughout the 20th century, and into the 21st, American democracy has been challenged by anti-Communist witch-hunts, federal censorship of, and spying on, American citizens, and more recently, denial of civil rights by the Patriot Act. Tonight’s program … Continued
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The Gin Game by D.L. CoburnThe quiet porch of a rest home for the aged explodes with emotion when prim Fonsia Dorsey sits down to play gin rummy with the cynical Weller Martin. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama takes a look at such themes as individual responsibility, society’s mistreatment of the aged, and having darn old … Continued
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Pack of Lies by Hugh Whitemore. Based on actual Cold War events, this play resonates in this era of the Patriot Act.
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The Prisoner of 2nd Avenue by Neil SimonRichard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason star in this quintessential Simon portrayal of a long-married New York City couple trapped in a high-rise hell.
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Master Harold….and the Boys by Athol Fugard One of the theater’s most accclaimed playwrights finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a 17-year old white boy in 1950s South Africa, and the two middle-aged black servants who raised him. Racism unexpectedly shatters Harold’s childhood, and the friendship, in this coming of age play.
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Bus Stop by William Inge Kansas, 1955. Eight ordinary people’s paths cross while waiting out a raging snowstorm. Plus Thief of Tears The daughter of an upper-class family, who frequents The Viper Room, steals jewelry from corpses. A monologue performed by Laura San Giacomo.
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The Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson A Vietnam vet plays host to eccentric family members and old college friends gathered for a summer holiday, and struggles with the emotional stakes everyone holds in the past and future of the family farmhouse he may have to sell. This Pulitzer-Prize winning portrait captures a generation for … Continued
