Muriel & Anita Libretto Reading
Muriel & Anita
Libretto Reading
Wednesday February 11 at 7pm
Internationally acclaimed composer Carla Lucero has approached Mercury Theater, Mary Chun, and Elly Lichenstein to help her develop a brand new opera, and we could not be more honored! We begin with a “workshop” reading of the libretto (no music yet) on Wednesday, February 11, at 7 pm, and we'd be delighted if you'd join us at the historic Cinnabar School House(3333 Petaluma Boulevard N., Petaluma, CA 94952).
Muriel and Anita is a true crime opera set in Napa, California, in 1974. At the core of this story is the undying love between two sisters, leading to the discovery of a serial killer in this once sleepy town.
The evening will include a reading by board members and friends of the theater, and will feature Mary Gannon Graham as Muriel and Mercedes Murphy as Anita. We’ll also have some delicious light food and champagne on hand. Plus, we want your feedback, so there will be a Q&A after the reading. Both Carla and Mary will be on hand to meet you and take your questions, and Elly will be there too.
Please RSVP by emailing admin@mercurytheater.org with the number in your party so we can buy enough champagne!
Jim Kweskin
Jim Kweskin
with Suzy Thompson and Matthew Berlin
Saturday February 14 at 7:30pm
A night of folk music with Jim Kweskin, featuring Suzy Thompson on fiddle & Matt Berlin on bass.
Kweskin is the founder of the legendary 1960s Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Fritz Richmond, Geoff Muldaur, Maria Muldaur, Mel Lyman and Bruno Wolfe. During the five years they were together, they successfully transformed the sounds of pre-World War II rural music into a springboard for their good-humored performances. Their imitators were legion, including a San Francisco jug band that became the Grateful Dead, a Los Angeles jug band that became the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and a New York jug band that became the Lovin' Spoonful. No other group attained their unique blend of youthful energy and antiquarian expertise, tight musicianship, loose camaraderie, and infectious swing.
These days Jim is best known as a singer and bandleader, but he also created one of the bedrock guitar styles of the folk revival, adapting the ragtime-blues fingerpicking of artists like Mississippi John Hurt and Pink Anderson to the more complex chords of pop and jazz. He has maintained a remarkably consistent musical vision since his jug band days, continuing to explore traditional folk and blues with the sophisticated sensibility of a jazz musician, and jazz with the communal simplicity of a folk artist. He has recorded many solo ventures, as a member of the U and I band, with band-mate Geoff Muldaur, with Samoa Wilson, with The Texas Sheiks as well as performing and recording with a wide variety of well-known musicians such as Maria Muldaur, John Sebastian, David Grisman, Cindy Cashdollar, Happy Traum, Meredith Axelrod, Juli Crockett and Samoa Wilson, to name a few.
Private Lives
Private Lives
by Noël Coward
March 6-21
In Noël Coward's sparkling and sophisticated comedy of manners, Private Lives, a divorced couple, Amanda and Elyot, find themselves unexpectedly honeymooning at the same hotel with their new spouses. Their shared past ignites a firestorm of passion, leading them to abandon their new partners and escape together to Paris. This witty and chaotic escape reignites a turbulent romance filled with both adoration and dramatic clashes, as their spurned spouses, Victor and Sibyl, give chase.
Discover this sharp, hilarious battle of the sexes, a timeless exploration of love, lust, and the scandalous, intoxicating nature of human relationships.
Michael Fontaine, Stage Director
Private Lives
Private Lives
by Noël Coward
March 6-21
In Noël Coward's sparkling and sophisticated comedy of manners, Private Lives, a divorced couple, Amanda and Elyot, find themselves unexpectedly honeymooning at the same hotel with their new spouses. Their shared past ignites a firestorm of passion, leading them to abandon their new partners and escape together to Paris. This witty and chaotic escape reignites a turbulent romance filled with both adoration and dramatic clashes, as their spurned spouses, Victor and Sibyl, give chase.
Discover this sharp, hilarious battle of the sexes, a timeless exploration of love, lust, and the scandalous, intoxicating nature of human relationships.
Michael Fontaine, Stage Director
Private Lives
Private Lives
by Noël Coward
March 6-21
In Noël Coward's sparkling and sophisticated comedy of manners, Private Lives, a divorced couple, Amanda and Elyot, find themselves unexpectedly honeymooning at the same hotel with their new spouses. Their shared past ignites a firestorm of passion, leading them to abandon their new partners and escape together to Paris. This witty and chaotic escape reignites a turbulent romance filled with both adoration and dramatic clashes, as their spurned spouses, Victor and Sibyl, give chase.
Discover this sharp, hilarious battle of the sexes, a timeless exploration of love, lust, and the scandalous, intoxicating nature of human relationships.
Michael Fontaine, Stage Director
Private Lives
Private Lives
by Noël Coward
March 6-21
In Noël Coward's sparkling and sophisticated comedy of manners, Private Lives, a divorced couple, Amanda and Elyot, find themselves unexpectedly honeymooning at the same hotel with their new spouses. Their shared past ignites a firestorm of passion, leading them to abandon their new partners and escape together to Paris. This witty and chaotic escape reignites a turbulent romance filled with both adoration and dramatic clashes, as their spurned spouses, Victor and Sibyl, give chase.
Discover this sharp, hilarious battle of the sexes, a timeless exploration of love, lust, and the scandalous, intoxicating nature of human relationships.
Michael Fontaine, Stage Director
Private Lives
Private Lives
by Noël Coward
March 6-21
In Noël Coward's sparkling and sophisticated comedy of manners, Private Lives, a divorced couple, Amanda and Elyot, find themselves unexpectedly honeymooning at the same hotel with their new spouses. Their shared past ignites a firestorm of passion, leading them to abandon their new partners and escape together to Paris. This witty and chaotic escape reignites a turbulent romance filled with both adoration and dramatic clashes, as their spurned spouses, Victor and Sibyl, give chase.
Discover this sharp, hilarious battle of the sexes, a timeless exploration of love, lust, and the scandalous, intoxicating nature of human relationships.
Michael Fontaine, Stage Director
Private Lives
Private Lives
by Noël Coward
March 6-21
In Noël Coward's sparkling and sophisticated comedy of manners, Private Lives, a divorced couple, Amanda and Elyot, find themselves unexpectedly honeymooning at the same hotel with their new spouses. Their shared past ignites a firestorm of passion, leading them to abandon their new partners and escape together to Paris. This witty and chaotic escape reignites a turbulent romance filled with both adoration and dramatic clashes, as their spurned spouses, Victor and Sibyl, give chase.
Discover this sharp, hilarious battle of the sexes, a timeless exploration of love, lust, and the scandalous, intoxicating nature of human relationships.
Michael Fontaine, Stage Director
Private Lives
Private Lives
by Noël Coward
March 6-21
In Noël Coward's sparkling and sophisticated comedy of manners, Private Lives, a divorced couple, Amanda and Elyot, find themselves unexpectedly honeymooning at the same hotel with their new spouses. Their shared past ignites a firestorm of passion, leading them to abandon their new partners and escape together to Paris. This witty and chaotic escape reignites a turbulent romance filled with both adoration and dramatic clashes, as their spurned spouses, Victor and Sibyl, give chase.
Discover this sharp, hilarious battle of the sexes, a timeless exploration of love, lust, and the scandalous, intoxicating nature of human relationships.
Michael Fontaine, Stage Director
Men of Worth
Men of Worth
Monday March 16 at 6:30pm
A night of celtic folk music with Men of Worth.
In 1986, Scotsman Donnie Macdonald and Irishman James Keigher came together to perform Irish and Scottish folk music, combining traditional and contemporary styles.
The name "Men of Worth" was chosen from the title of a folk song written by the Scottish singer/songwriter Archie Fisher.
Together Men of Worth blend their voices with harmony and support their collection of songs with their varied selection of instruments. They have a very simple approach to their presentation, and in keeping with tradition, remain true to the music and story. Their show is a unique combination of humour, exciting tunes, and soulful, heartfelt ballads.
Men of Worth are an international act, and have earned much respect and success in over thirty years of touring together. Performing concerts and festivals, with twelve albums to their credit; Men of Worth continue the very tradition from which they've evolved.
Private Lives
Private Lives
by Noël Coward
March 6-21
In Noël Coward's sparkling and sophisticated comedy of manners, Private Lives, a divorced couple, Amanda and Elyot, find themselves unexpectedly honeymooning at the same hotel with their new spouses. Their shared past ignites a firestorm of passion, leading them to abandon their new partners and escape together to Paris. This witty and chaotic escape reignites a turbulent romance filled with both adoration and dramatic clashes, as their spurned spouses, Victor and Sibyl, give chase.
Discover this sharp, hilarious battle of the sexes, a timeless exploration of love, lust, and the scandalous, intoxicating nature of human relationships.
Michael Fontaine, Stage Director
Private Lives
Private Lives
by Noël Coward
March 6-21
In Noël Coward's sparkling and sophisticated comedy of manners, Private Lives, a divorced couple, Amanda and Elyot, find themselves unexpectedly honeymooning at the same hotel with their new spouses. Their shared past ignites a firestorm of passion, leading them to abandon their new partners and escape together to Paris. This witty and chaotic escape reignites a turbulent romance filled with both adoration and dramatic clashes, as their spurned spouses, Victor and Sibyl, give chase.
Discover this sharp, hilarious battle of the sexes, a timeless exploration of love, lust, and the scandalous, intoxicating nature of human relationships.
Michael Fontaine, Stage Director
Private Lives
Private Lives
by Noël Coward
March 6-21
In Noël Coward's sparkling and sophisticated comedy of manners, Private Lives, a divorced couple, Amanda and Elyot, find themselves unexpectedly honeymooning at the same hotel with their new spouses. Their shared past ignites a firestorm of passion, leading them to abandon their new partners and escape together to Paris. This witty and chaotic escape reignites a turbulent romance filled with both adoration and dramatic clashes, as their spurned spouses, Victor and Sibyl, give chase.
Discover this sharp, hilarious battle of the sexes, a timeless exploration of love, lust, and the scandalous, intoxicating nature of human relationships.
Michael Fontaine, Stage Director
Woody Guthrie’s American Song
Songs and Writings by Woody Guthrie
Conceived and Adapted by Peter Glazer
Orchestrations and Vocal Arrangements by Jeff Waxman
January 9-25
Woody Guthrie's American Song serves as a musical tribute to the American folk singer and poet, Woody Guthrie, conceived and adapted by Peter Glazer. It uses Guthrie's own songs and writings to narrate his life and the historical and social forces that shaped him and the nation, such as the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and labor struggles. The show brings to life the spirit of Guthrie's music as a celebration of American history, its people, their struggles, and their joys.
Elizabeth Craven, Stage Director
Tom Martin, Music Director
Woody Guthrie’s American Song
Songs and Writings by Woody Guthrie
Conceived and Adapted by Peter Glazer
Orchestrations and Vocal Arrangements by Jeff Waxman
January 9-25
Woody Guthrie's American Song serves as a musical tribute to the American folk singer and poet, Woody Guthrie, conceived and adapted by Peter Glazer. It uses Guthrie's own songs and writings to narrate his life and the historical and social forces that shaped him and the nation, such as the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and labor struggles. The show brings to life the spirit of Guthrie's music as a celebration of American history, its people, their struggles, and their joys.
Elizabeth Craven, Stage Director
Tom Martin, Music Director
Woody Guthrie’s American Song
Songs and Writings by Woody Guthrie
Conceived and Adapted by Peter Glazer
Orchestrations and Vocal Arrangements by Jeff Waxman
January 9-25
Woody Guthrie's American Song serves as a musical tribute to the American folk singer and poet, Woody Guthrie, conceived and adapted by Peter Glazer. It uses Guthrie's own songs and writings to narrate his life and the historical and social forces that shaped him and the nation, such as the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and labor struggles. The show brings to life the spirit of Guthrie's music as a celebration of American history, its people, their struggles, and their joys.
Elizabeth Craven, Stage Director
Tom Martin, Music Director
Woody Guthrie’s American Song
Songs and Writings by Woody Guthrie
Conceived and Adapted by Peter Glazer
Orchestrations and Vocal Arrangements by Jeff Waxman
January 9-25
Woody Guthrie's American Song serves as a musical tribute to the American folk singer and poet, Woody Guthrie, conceived and adapted by Peter Glazer. It uses Guthrie's own songs and writings to narrate his life and the historical and social forces that shaped him and the nation, such as the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and labor struggles. The show brings to life the spirit of Guthrie's music as a celebration of American history, its people, their struggles, and their joys.
Elizabeth Craven, Stage Director
Tom Martin, Music Director
Woody Guthrie’s American Song
Songs and Writings by Woody Guthrie
Conceived and Adapted by Peter Glazer
Orchestrations and Vocal Arrangements by Jeff Waxman
January 9-25
Woody Guthrie's American Song serves as a musical tribute to the American folk singer and poet, Woody Guthrie, conceived and adapted by Peter Glazer. It uses Guthrie's own songs and writings to narrate his life and the historical and social forces that shaped him and the nation, such as the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and labor struggles. The show brings to life the spirit of Guthrie's music as a celebration of American history, its people, their struggles, and their joys.
Elizabeth Craven, Stage Director
Tom Martin, Music Director
Woody Guthrie’s American Song
Songs and Writings by Woody Guthrie
Conceived and Adapted by Peter Glazer
Orchestrations and Vocal Arrangements by Jeff Waxman
January 9-25
Woody Guthrie's American Song serves as a musical tribute to the American folk singer and poet, Woody Guthrie, conceived and adapted by Peter Glazer. It uses Guthrie's own songs and writings to narrate his life and the historical and social forces that shaped him and the nation, such as the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and labor struggles. The show brings to life the spirit of Guthrie's music as a celebration of American history, its people, their struggles, and their joys.
Elizabeth Craven, Stage Director
Tom Martin, Music Director
Woody Guthrie’s American Song
Songs and Writings by Woody Guthrie
Conceived and Adapted by Peter Glazer
Orchestrations and Vocal Arrangements by Jeff Waxman
January 9-25
Woody Guthrie's American Song serves as a musical tribute to the American folk singer and poet, Woody Guthrie, conceived and adapted by Peter Glazer. It uses Guthrie's own songs and writings to narrate his life and the historical and social forces that shaped him and the nation, such as the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and labor struggles. The show brings to life the spirit of Guthrie's music as a celebration of American history, its people, their struggles, and their joys.
Elizabeth Craven, Stage Director
Tom Martin, Music Director
Woody Guthrie’s American Song
Songs and Writings by Woody Guthrie
Conceived and Adapted by Peter Glazer
Orchestrations and Vocal Arrangements by Jeff Waxman
January 9-25
Woody Guthrie's American Song serves as a musical tribute to the American folk singer and poet, Woody Guthrie, conceived and adapted by Peter Glazer. It uses Guthrie's own songs and writings to narrate his life and the historical and social forces that shaped him and the nation, such as the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and labor struggles. The show brings to life the spirit of Guthrie's music as a celebration of American history, its people, their struggles, and their joys.
Elizabeth Craven, Stage Director
Tom Martin, Music Director
Woody Guthrie’s American Song
Songs and Writings by Woody Guthrie
Conceived and Adapted by Peter Glazer
Orchestrations and Vocal Arrangements by Jeff Waxman
January 9-25
Woody Guthrie's American Song serves as a musical tribute to the American folk singer and poet, Woody Guthrie, conceived and adapted by Peter Glazer. It uses Guthrie's own songs and writings to narrate his life and the historical and social forces that shaped him and the nation, such as the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and labor struggles. The show brings to life the spirit of Guthrie's music as a celebration of American history, its people, their struggles, and their joys.
Elizabeth Craven, Stage Director
Tom Martin, Music Director
Woody Guthrie’s American Song
Songs and Writings by Woody Guthrie
Conceived and Adapted by Peter Glazer
Orchestrations and Vocal Arrangements by Jeff Waxman
January 9-25
Woody Guthrie's American Song serves as a musical tribute to the American folk singer and poet, Woody Guthrie, conceived and adapted by Peter Glazer. It uses Guthrie's own songs and writings to narrate his life and the historical and social forces that shaped him and the nation, such as the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and labor struggles. The show brings to life the spirit of Guthrie's music as a celebration of American history, its people, their struggles, and their joys.
Elizabeth Craven, Stage Director
Tom Martin, Music Director
Mrs. Dickens’ Christmas Dinner
Mrs. Dickens’ Christmas Dinner
Created and Performed by Petaluma Readers Theatre
Friday December 19 at 7pm
Saturday November 20 at 7pm
Sunday December 21 at 2pm
Before "A Christmas Carol", there was a Christmas dinner.
Christmas Eve 1841. As Charles Dickens gathers inspiration for A Christmas Carol, his wife Kate grapples with an elaborate dinner menu, an ever-expanding guest list, and Charles's troublemaking father--all while secretly writing a cookbook. When Charles fails to appreciate Kate's holiday labor, she goes on strike, leaving her clueless husband to face holiday chaos without her.
Mrs. Dickens’ Christmas Dinner
Mrs. Dickens’ Christmas Dinner
Created and Performed by Petaluma Readers Theatre
Friday December 19 at 7pm
Saturday November 20 at 7pm
Sunday December 21 at 2pm
Before "A Christmas Carol", there was a Christmas dinner.
Christmas Eve 1841. As Charles Dickens gathers inspiration for A Christmas Carol, his wife Kate grapples with an elaborate dinner menu, an ever-expanding guest list, and Charles's troublemaking father--all while secretly writing a cookbook. When Charles fails to appreciate Kate's holiday labor, she goes on strike, leaving her clueless husband to face holiday chaos without her.
Mrs. Dickens’ Christmas Dinner
Mrs. Dickens’ Christmas Dinner
Created and Performed by Petaluma Readers Theatre
Friday December 19 at 7pm
Saturday November 20 at 7pm
Sunday December 21 at 2pm
Before "A Christmas Carol", there was a Christmas dinner.
Christmas Eve 1841. As Charles Dickens gathers inspiration for A Christmas Carol, his wife Kate grapples with an elaborate dinner menu, an ever-expanding guest list, and Charles's troublemaking father--all while secretly writing a cookbook. When Charles fails to appreciate Kate's holiday labor, she goes on strike, leaving her clueless husband to face holiday chaos without her.
Zola Cola & the Beast of More
Zola Cola & the Beast of More is an Original Play
Created by Brian Glen Bryson
Performed by Young Theatre Artists (Ages 7-15)
Friday November 21 at 6:30pm
Saturday November 22 at 2pm
When the small town of Barnswallow is overwhelmed with addiction, propaganda, and mob mentality… Zola must choose between selling the toxic drink that destroyed her family, or risk her parents being sacrificed in a fiery cauldron to the Beast of More.
What will she do?
Come find out in this brand spanking new DARK COMEDY from BROKEN THEATRE in their premier production of Zola~Cola and the BEAST of More a comedy so dark parents will weep openly, and their children will laugh themselves wild.
She brought her tiny neighborhood to its feet & a multi-national company to its knees...
Zola Cola & the Beast of More
Zola Cola & the Beast of More is an Original Play
Created by Brian Glen Bryson
Performed by Young Theatre Artists (Ages 7-15)
Friday November 21 at 6:30pm
Saturday November 22 at 2pm
When the small town of Barnswallow is overwhelmed with addiction, propaganda, and mob mentality… Zola must choose between selling the toxic drink that destroyed her family, or risk her parents being sacrificed in a fiery cauldron to the Beast of More.
What will she do?
Come find out in this brand spanking new DARK COMEDY from BROKEN THEATRE in their premier production of Zola~Cola and the BEAST of More a comedy so dark parents will weep openly, and their children will laugh themselves wild.
She brought her tiny neighborhood to its feet & a multi-national company to its knees...
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Sunday Nov 16
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a satirical parable play that uses a gangster-ruled Chicago in the 1930s to allegorically depict Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1930s Germany. Set during an economic slump, the play follows the small-time gangster Arturo Ui as he takes over the city's vegetable trade through corruption, bribery, and violence. Each event and character in the play has a parallel to real-life events in Nazi Germany, serving as a cautionary tale to audiences that people's complicity and lack of resistance allow demagogues to take control.
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Saturday Nov 15
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a satirical parable play that uses a gangster-ruled Chicago in the 1930s to allegorically depict Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1930s Germany. Set during an economic slump, the play follows the small-time gangster Arturo Ui as he takes over the city's vegetable trade through corruption, bribery, and violence. Each event and character in the play has a parallel to real-life events in Nazi Germany, serving as a cautionary tale to audiences that people's complicity and lack of resistance allow demagogues to take control.
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Friday Nov 14
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a satirical parable play that uses a gangster-ruled Chicago in the 1930s to allegorically depict Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1930s Germany. Set during an economic slump, the play follows the small-time gangster Arturo Ui as he takes over the city's vegetable trade through corruption, bribery, and violence. Each event and character in the play has a parallel to real-life events in Nazi Germany, serving as a cautionary tale to audiences that people's complicity and lack of resistance allow demagogues to take control.
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Sunday Nov 9
TICKETS
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a satirical parable play that uses a gangster-ruled Chicago in the 1930s to allegorically depict Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1930s Germany. Set during an economic slump, the play follows the small-time gangster Arturo Ui as he takes over the city's vegetable trade through corruption, bribery, and violence. Each event and character in the play has a parallel to real-life events in Nazi Germany, serving as a cautionary tale to audiences that people's complicity and lack of resistance allow demagogues to take control.
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Saturday Nov 8
TICKETS
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a satirical parable play that uses a gangster-ruled Chicago in the 1930s to allegorically depict Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1930s Germany. Set during an economic slump, the play follows the small-time gangster Arturo Ui as he takes over the city's vegetable trade through corruption, bribery, and violence. Each event and character in the play has a parallel to real-life events in Nazi Germany, serving as a cautionary tale to audiences that people's complicity and lack of resistance allow demagogues to take control.
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Friday Nov 7
TICKETS
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a satirical parable play that uses a gangster-ruled Chicago in the 1930s to allegorically depict Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1930s Germany. Set during an economic slump, the play follows the small-time gangster Arturo Ui as he takes over the city's vegetable trade through corruption, bribery, and violence. Each event and character in the play has a parallel to real-life events in Nazi Germany, serving as a cautionary tale to audiences that people's complicity and lack of resistance allow demagogues to take control.
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Special Discounted “Theater Thursday” Show
Nov 6
TICKETS
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a satirical parable play that uses a gangster-ruled Chicago in the 1930s to allegorically depict Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1930s Germany. Set during an economic slump, the play follows the small-time gangster Arturo Ui as he takes over the city's vegetable trade through corruption, bribery, and violence. Each event and character in the play has a parallel to real-life events in Nazi Germany, serving as a cautionary tale to audiences that people's complicity and lack of resistance allow demagogues to take control.
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Sunday Nov 2
TICKETS
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a satirical parable play that uses a gangster-ruled Chicago in the 1930s to allegorically depict Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1930s Germany. Set during an economic slump, the play follows the small-time gangster Arturo Ui as he takes over the city's vegetable trade through corruption, bribery, and violence. Each event and character in the play has a parallel to real-life events in Nazi Germany, serving as a cautionary tale to audiences that people's complicity and lack of resistance allow demagogues to take control.
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Saturday Nov 1
TICKETS
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a satirical parable play that uses a gangster-ruled Chicago in the 1930s to allegorically depict Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1930s Germany. Set during an economic slump, the play follows the small-time gangster Arturo Ui as he takes over the city's vegetable trade through corruption, bribery, and violence. Each event and character in the play has a parallel to real-life events in Nazi Germany, serving as a cautionary tale to audiences that people's complicity and lack of resistance allow demagogues to take control.
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Friday Oct 31
TICKETS
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a satirical parable play that uses a gangster-ruled Chicago in the 1930s to allegorically depict Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1930s Germany. Set during an economic slump, the play follows the small-time gangster Arturo Ui as he takes over the city's vegetable trade through corruption, bribery, and violence. Each event and character in the play has a parallel to real-life events in Nazi Germany, serving as a cautionary tale to audiences that people's complicity and lack of resistance allow demagogues to take control.
The Six Bach Cello Suites BWV 1007–1012 by Jeffrey Noel Lastrapes
An evening of all six of the suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach. (BWV 1007–1012) performed by Jeffrey Noel Lastrapes.
October 26 at 7pm
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An evening of all six of the suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach. (BWV 1007–1012) performed by Jeffrey Noel Lastrapes.
Lastrapes is an active soloist, chamber musician, and teacher having performed and taught in Europe, Asia, South America, and in every region of the US. As a soloist, he has appeared with the Monroe Symphony Orchestra, the Baton Rouge Symphony, the Midland-Odessa Symphony, the Ibex Chamber Orchestra of New York, the Lower Marion Symphony of Philadelphia, the Festival Orchestra in Vina del Mar, Chile, the National Philharmonic of Honduras, and numerous others. He has also participated in major summer festivals around the world including the Evian Festival in France, Hot Springs Music Festival, Peninsula Music Festival, Bay View, the Bellingham Festival, and the Gregor Piatigorsky Seminar at the University of Southern California.
Recently, Mr. Lastrapes recorded a video production of the Complete Bach Suites for Solo Cello in Los Angeles, California. The video will be released in Fall of 2019 on free streaming video services. He frequently performs complete versions of the Bach Suites in recitals in the US, Asia, South America, and Europe. His print edition of the Complete Bach Suites is available worldwide through BCMP Ltd and is the culmination of three decades of research, practice and performing. Mr. Lastrapes holds degrees from The Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School where he studied with Orlando Cole and Harvey Shapiro respectively. He has recorded for New World Records and Centaur Records.
In 2009, Mr. Lastrapes gave his New York Debut at Merkin Hall to critical acclaim.
"An excellent cellist with consummate technical mastery, Lastrapes is a seasoned performer whose strong, outgoing personality lets him shape the music on a big canvas with bold colors and contours." ~Edith Eisler New York Concert Review.
He is currently Professor of Cello at Texas Tech University, is the cofounder of Caerus Ensemble and has been on the faculty of the Interlochen Arts Camp since 1996. He is also Co-founder and Co-artistic Director of the Montenegro Cello Festival and Course in Podgorica, Montenegro.
Mr. Lastrapes performs on a Francesco Ruggieri cello dated 1684 and a Paul Schuback cello dated 1987.
The One Acts – Fractured To Whole – A Tapestry of Grief, Humor, and Hope
Presented by Sonoma Foundation for Behavioral Health / Andrew Conti Workshop Directed by Senadhi Parakrama
October 3 & 4 at 7pm
Following last year’s sold-out production of Roofing in Petaluma and Berkeley, the SFBH/ACW returns for its second season with The One Acts — a series of original short plays created during a 12-week workshop. A cast of participants developed and wrote these one-acts entirely themselves, drawing from lived experience, imagination, and the spirit of collaboration.
Witness the transformative power of art in recovery — where storytelling brings people together, inspires healing, and creates lasting impact for both the artists and the audiences.
The One Acts – Fractured To Whole – A Tapestry of Grief, Humor, and Hope
Presented by Sonoma Foundation for Behavioral Health / Andrew Conti Workshop Directed by Senadhi Parakrama
October 3 & 4 at 7pm
Following last year’s sold-out production of Roofing in Petaluma and Berkeley, the SFBH/ACW returns for its second season with The One Acts — a series of original short plays created during a 12-week workshop. A cast of participants developed and wrote these one-acts entirely themselves, drawing from lived experience, imagination, and the spirit of collaboration.
Witness the transformative power of art in recovery — where storytelling brings people together, inspires healing, and creates lasting impact for both the artists and the audiences.
Pins & Needles
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For the first show of its inaugural season, Mercury Theater presents, “Pins and Needles,” an unjustly forgotten piece of musical theater history that speaks powerfully to the present day.
“Pins and Needles,” is a musical revue by composer Harold Rome and a crew of Depression Era scribes first performed by members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in 1937.
With a modern day cast of 10, the theater has culled the best songs and sketches from the revue’s ever-changing four-year Broadway run. These include songs like “Doin’ the Reactionary,””It’s Better with a Union Man,” “Sitting on Your Status Quo,” “One Big Union for Two,” and “Call it Unamerican.”
Pins & Needles
Click to Buy Tickets to Pins & Needles
For the first show of its inaugural season, Mercury Theater presents, “Pins and Needles,” an unjustly forgotten piece of musical theater history that speaks powerfully to the present day.
“Pins and Needles,” is a musical revue by composer Harold Rome and a crew of Depression Era scribes first performed by members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in 1937.
With a modern day cast of 10, the theater has culled the best songs and sketches from the revue’s ever-changing four-year Broadway run. These include songs like “Doin’ the Reactionary,””It’s Better with a Union Man,” “Sitting on Your Status Quo,” “One Big Union for Two,” and “Call it Unamerican.”