THEATRE GUIDE

Hairspray

March 15 – March 19

SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center

1301 L Street

916 808-5181

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You Can’t Stop the Beat! HAIRSPRAY, Broadway’s Tony Award-winning musical comedy phenomenon is back on tour! Join 16-year-old Tracy Turnblad in 1960’s Baltimore as she sets out to dance her way onto TV’s most popular show. Can a girl with big dreams (and even bigger hair) change the world

Featuring the beloved score of hit songs including “Welcome to the 60’s,” “Good Morning Baltimore” and “You Can’t Stop the Beat.”

DIRECT FROM DEATH ROW: THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS

Thru March 4th

Celebration Arts/GUILD Theatre

2828 35th St (35th St & Broadway)

916 455-2787

Presented in collaboration with Celebration Arts and St. Hope, the Scottsboro Boys will come from eternity to the Guild Theater to reenact as “vaudeville” scenes the story of their convictions for gang rape, despite prima facie evidence of their innocence. The historic event was, in many ways, something of a vaudeville. But also, as revealed early on, the first four of the nine to get released (after seven years) appeared within a matter of weeks in a New York vaudeville show. The case highlighted several elements of American culture – the exploitation of racism by the two women who falsely accused these young Black men; and the Communist Party’s exploitation of racism in its efforts to recruit African Americans.

The Lower Room

March 3 – March 12

Presented by Free Fall Stage at EPIC Bible College

4330 Auburn Blvd.

916 207-4420

A fascinating retelling of the story of Jesus’ passion through the eyes of those who were the last of the followers at the cross, and the first at the tomb: women. Invaluable for several reasons, the play (some may say at last) brings new light to the women in the Bible. It answers: What were women doing, feeling, thinking while the men were gathered with Jesus in the Upper Room? Who knows… perhaps they were gathered in the Lower Room.

The Taming

by Lauren Gunderson

March 3 – March 24

Presented by Resurrection Theatre at Wilkerson Theatre

1723 25th Street

916 223-9568

Tweetering, pandashrews, and undying giddiness for James Madison—what else could you expect to find at a Miss America pageant? In this hilarious, raucous, all-female “power-play” inspired by Shakespeare’s Shrew, contestant Katherine has political aspirations to match her beauty pageant ambitions. All she needs to revolutionize the American government is the help of one ultra-conservative senator’s aide on the cusp of a career breakthrough, and one bleeding-heart liberal blogger who will do anything for her cause. Well, that and a semihistorically-accurate ether trip. Here’s lookin’ at you, America.