Listed below are upcoming shows, staged readings, classes, community partnership events, and more.
All times Pacific unless otherwise noted.
JAW Play Reading: Fires, Ohio By Beth Hyland
As a climate crisis threatens a small Ohio college town, the mopey grown children and second wife of a sort-of-mediocre professor must choose: stay and smolder, or leave and burn. When a visiting scholar comes to stay for a few days, love and hatred flare and jeopardize the family’s fragile equilibrium. Chekhovian and totally modern, Fires, Ohio brings an old story into our painfully funny present.
PLAY! Monster Approaches to Text with Brett Robinson JAW Community Artist Lab
This performance workshop will use play and the concept of monsters and nonsocial sounds and language to explore the emotional life of text.
JAW: Pre-show Music: Gus Jeffers
Join us for a JAW weekend pre-show music performance featuring 14-year-old vocalist Gus Jeffers sharing a mix of cover songs and original tracks, blending pop and R&B genres.
JAW Play Reading: Teen Playwrights Showcase
Don’t miss this chance to experience some of the newest voices in theater! Four young playwrights have been commissioned by PCS to write short scripts for JAW. This showcase will feature the dynamic short scripts they’ve developed, performed by professional actors.
JAW: Pre-show Bollywood Dance Performance
Join us for a JAW weekend pre-show Bollywood Dance performance, led by Deepa Barve.
JAW Play Reading: The Sunnyview Elementary Art Show By Rob Smith
As the annual Sunnyview Elementary Art Show comes to a close, the newly formed Art Committee locks themselves away to determine which student will win The Golden Paintbrush. While it was once the decision of the Art Teacher alone, now she must mix it up with the new Assistant Principal, a veteran Fifth Grade Teacher, and the eager Head of the PTO; all with their own points of view. In this comedy, penned by local playwright Rob Smith, lines are drawn, perspectives are skewed, and truths are shaded as the Arts Committee struggles to determine whether the art or the artist matter more, if emotion or execution create the best art, or if art should even be judged at all.
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