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2023/24 Season
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2023/24 Season: True Identity
Clyde’s
by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Anthony D’Juan
2022 Tony Award Nominee for Best Play
NY Times Critic’s Pick
Sacramento Premiere
August 23 – September 24, 2023
In this stirring new play from Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, a truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at redemption. Even as the shop’s callous owner tries to keep them down, the staff members learn to reclaim their lives, find purpose, and become inspired to dream by their shared quest to create the perfect sandwich.
“…A poignant story about worker solidarity and the meaning of second chances, loaded with laugh-out-loud funny jokes.” —HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Archduke
by Rajiv Joseph
Directed by Michael Stevenson
October 11 – November 12, 2023
Sacramento Premiere
Three hapless and hungry young men fumble their way through history as they take on a mission of martyrdom. Are they fighting for Serb independence or a sandwich? Patriotism or pudding? With Archduke Franz Ferdinand as their target, a depraved Captain sends Gavrilo, Nedeljko, and Trifko on a darkly comedic journey towards immortality.
“Joseph uses history to tell a story about the contemporary moment. The comic energy carries its characters to their tragic finish line and the last scene is perfection!” —LOS ANGELES TIMES
American Fast
by Kareem Fahmy
Directed by TBA
January 24 – February 25, 2024
Sacramento Premiere
Twenty-one-year-old college basketball sensation Khady Salama makes it to March Madness, but during Ramadan, the holiest month of the year in Islamic culture. Khady must choose between observing the traditional Muslim fast or breaking it to keep herself in top shape to compete in the tournament.
“In [Fahmy’s] skillful hands, AMERICAN FAST entertains and enlightens, and is never preachy, as it races through an imaginary March Madness in a very American Ramadan.” —PORTLAND TRIBUNE
Fade
by Tanya Saracho
Directed by Dena Martinez
March 13 – April 14, 2024
Sacramento Premiere
When Lucia, a Mexican-born novelist, gets her first TV writing job, she feels a bit out of place on the white male-dominated set. Lucia quickly becomes friends with the only other Latino around, a janitor named Abel. As Abel shares his stories with Lucia, similar plots begin to find their way into the TV scripts that Lucia writes. Fade is a play about class and race within the Latinx community, as well as at large, and how status does not change who you are at your core.
“Saracho’s writing is so sharp, full lives take shape with an economy of words […] a powerful piece with a fresh voice and a bright future..” —DENVER POST
Cry It Out
by Molly Smith Metzler
Directed by Judith Moreland
May 1 – June 2, 2024
Sacramento Premiere
Four months ago, Jessie was a corporate lawyer with a glamorous Manhattan life. Today, she is in dirty yoga pants, covered in breast milk, trying to comfort a screaming newborn. Isolated in a sleepy Long Island suburb while her commuter husband works long hours, Jessie is desperate to talk to anyone besides Food Network. When she spies a fellow new mom and neighbor, Lina, at the local Stop & Shop, she vaults over the cantaloupe to introduce herself. A comedy with dark edges that takes an honest look at the absurdities of being home with a baby, the power of female friendship, the dilemma of going back to work, and the effect class has on parenthood in America.
“A funny story that weaves together very different but highly meaningful stories from three new mothers.” —USA TODAY
Now Circa Then
by Carly Mensch
Directed by Jeffrey Lo
June 19 – July 21, 2024
Sacramento Premiere
Meet Julian and Josephine, an immigrant couple on New York’s Lower East Side, circa 1890. Meet Gideon and Margie, an unlikely pair of historical reenactors, circa now. A museum tour goes off the rails in this jaunty tale of old places, new beginnings and timeless questions.