City Theatre

City Theatre

City Theatre is the performing arts program at Sacramento City College, part of the Los Rios Community College District, in Sacramento, California. This program offers a variety of classes in acting, technical theatre, film studies and theatre history.

The City Theatre season consists of five Mainstage productions, three Storytime children's productions, and a touring children's troupe called the "Pennywhistle Players". During the summer City Theatre acts as the producer for the Sacramento Shakespeare Festival.

The first event of the season is the 29½ Hour Playwriting Festival in early Sept., which was born in 2000. A group of playwrights is given a topic and 8 hours to write a play. A director and a group of actors meet the next day to rehearse it. The actors perform it that evening. It is live theatre at its best.

The mainstage season continues with four fully produced plays or musicals and lower budget, smaller studio production. Every other year the studio production is a Local Playwrights Festival of new works. In 2007, the studio show showcased SCC wfaculty members in a production.

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Mission statement

City Theatre at Sacramento City College aims to bring to the Sacramento community a unified theatre experience, beginning with the best training available for anyone interested, put to the test in fine professional productions from the old to the new, which will, in turn, strive to speak as much as they can to all of Sacramento's diverse communities.

Current season

2007–2008

Main stage

29½ Hour Playwriting Festival
The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Local Playwright's Festival
A Few Good Men by Aaron Sorkin
Working by Studs Terkel and Stephen Schwartz

Storytime theatre

Rumplestiltsken
Cinderella
Alice in Wonderland

Sacramento Shakespeare Festival

The Tempest
Twelfth Night

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