spotlight archive

May 2008
Imprint Theatre Company

February 2008
The Lambda Players

November 2007
Rocklin Youth Theatre Company

October 2007
Images Theater Company

September 2007
Sacramento Valley Production Theatre Company

August 2007
The Benvenuti Performing Arts Center

July 2007
Off Center Stage

June 2007
SacActors.Com

May 2007
Fairytale Town

April 2007
Short Center Repertory
of Theatre and Dance

March 2007
UC Davis Department
of Theatre and Dance

January 2007
Beyond the Proscenium Productions

December 2006
City of Rocklin

November 2006
Capstone Theatre Company

October 2006
Chautauqua Playhouse

September 2006
City Theatre at
Sacramento City College

August 2006
The Studio Theatre

May 2006
American River College Theatre

March 2006
Woodland Opera House

January 2006
California Musical Theatre

November 2005
Davis Musical Theatre Company

October 2005
Sacramento Theatre Company

September 2005
River Stage

August 2005
B Street Theatre

July 2005
Capital Stage

June 2005
Garbeau's

Off Center Stage

Suzette H Murdoch in Free Food Forever

The Center For The Arts' small black box venue, affectionately know by those who work there as Off Center Stage (OCS), is Grass Valley's premiere alternative theater, and has come by this reputation from over five years of hosting plays, theater companies, and poetry readings. Over the last year, OCS has hosted or produced a wide variety of shows from alternative classics such as Shel's Shorts by Shel Silverstein, Seascape by Edward Albee, Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet, to the Samuel Beckett masterpieces Endgame, Act Without Words and Waiting For Godot.

Always on the cutting edge, OCS has also hosted original works such as Push by Jimmy McCammon, Cry, Little Girl, by Jesse Sabin and Ian Haines, and two touching one-woman shows written and performed by Kres Mersky aptly named The Life and Times of A. Einstein, and Isadora Duncan: A Unique Recital. OCS continues through the summer with the current production of Oliver Hailey's Fathers Day. In August, OCS premiers Free Food Forever, a new musical directed by the McCammon brothers. This original work appears along with Irwin Shaw's classic Broadway one-act, Bury The Dead.

Glengarry Glen Ross

Also appearing on a monthly basis is the phenomenal local improv troupe, The Improver's Nation, appearing for a two-show engagement every month.

Danny McCammon in Act Without Words

To get more information or become involved, contact us at thecenterforthearts.org or at syntheticunlimited.org.