Romeo and Juliet is reinvented as a musical comedy when the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance, Southern Utah University's (SUU) Department of Theatre, Dance and Arts Administration and Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank premiere Juliet and Romeo.

A ripped-from-the-headlines one-act play about race, police and friendship examines the search for truth after a white police officer kills a black man.

“This Is How It Happened” is a one-act play by Sacramento-native Anthony D’Juan centered on the story of a White police officer who kills a Black man, and if there is a way to discover the truth in the aftermath.

Stage and screen actor Sharon Lawrence, best known for her role in NYPD Blue, will host a webinar preview of Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank’s 2020-2021 season.

The Ground and Field Theatre Festival, the UC Davis-based forum for new stage works, will launch its fourth year in September with a new name — Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank.

The Ground and Field Theatre Festival, the UC Davis-based forum for new stage works, will launch its fourth year in September with a new name.

On May 31st the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company performed a live online reading of Aidaa Peerzada’s play “Shining.”

Mindy Cooper directs the musical penned by Kyle Holmes and David Taylor Gomes, that launched at the 2019 GFTF. Industry presentations of the new musical Ranked will be held March 20 at noon and 4 PM at The Daryl Roth Theatre.

The new musical Ranked (www.RankedMusical.com) with book by Kyle Holmes and music and lyrics by David Taylor Gomes will have industry workshops on Friday, March 20 at 12pm and 4pm at The Daryl Roth Theatre (101 E. 15th Street).

Ranked is set in a dystopian world where your class rank, determined by grades and test scores, governs everything from where you sit to what your future holds.

Following a record number of nominations and votes, winners have been announced for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Sacramento Awards. GFTF received awards for Mindy Cooper (Best Direction), Chloe Boyan (Best Actress), and Ranked, A New Musical (Best Musical).

The Jade/Anthony Company proudly announces the first developmental reading for its new Off-Broadway bound musical, Paper or Plastic, which will be presented as part of the Ground & Field Theatre Festival (GFTF) at UC Davis by Bike City Theatre Company.

K.L. Going, the award-winning author of numerous books for children and teens, will participate in a post-show talk back at UC Davis on Thursday, Sept. 26, following the opening night performance of “Fat Kid Rules the World,” a musical adaptation of her first novel.

The free performance is in the Wyatt Pavilion Theatre as part of the Ground and Field Theatre Festival. Reservations can be made at groundandfield.com.

The third annual Ground and Field Theatre Festival, “Play on the Brink,” spotlights new plays and musicals written by local, national and international playwrights and composers, including Broadway veterans. The main performances take place Thursdays through Saturdays, Sept. 26-28 and Oct. 3-5, on the UC Davis campus and in community venues. All are free.

22-year-old Matt Gumley is a musician, writer, actor, and Broadway veteran. He first found his way into New York City’s theater scene when he played Chip in “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast “on Broadway at the age of seven, and now he is here with us at Davis as an instrumental part of the hit new punk rock musical, “Fat Kid Rules the World.” Theatre and dance student Noah VanderVeer-Harris, who cast alongside him in the production, sat down with Gumley for the opportunity to pick his brain about theatre, punk rock, and more.