Capital Stage to Present RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN, 3/11-4/12

Capital Stage continues its 10th Anniversary Season with the Sacramento Premiere of Pulitzer Prize Finalist RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN by Gina Gionfriddo. Called "A Shrewd, incisive, thoroughly winning comedy," by The Boston Globe, RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN marks the Capital Stage directorial debut of frequent Capital Stage collaborator Shannon Mahoney (MAPLE & VINE, CLYBOURNE PARK, ENRON). RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN will run from March 11 through April 12, with a Press Opening on Saturday March 14, 2015.

After grad school, Catherine and Gwen chose polar opposite paths. Catherine built a career as a rockstar academic, while Gwen built a home with her husband and children. Decades later, unfulfilled in polar opposite ways, each woman covets the other's life, commencing a dangerous game of musical chairs - the prize being Gwen's husband. With searing insight and trademark wit, this Pulitzer Prize Finalist is an unflinching look at gender politics in the wake of 20th-century feminist ideals.

Gina Gionfriddo is an award-winning playwright and accomplished television writer. Her play RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. The show had a twice-extended run off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons and also recently had a successful run at the Hampstead Theatre in London. Ms. Gionfriddo's play BECKY SHAW, also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama enjoyed a long off-Broadway run at Second Stage (Outer Critics Circle Award) and in London at the Almeida Theatre, where it received two Evening Standard Award nominations. Her other plays include AFTER ASHLEY (Vineyard Theatre, Obie Award); U.S. DRAG (Clubbed Thumb and the stageFARM); SQUALOR and AMERICA'S GOT TRAGEDY (one-acts at the stageFARM) and Guinevere (O'Neill Playwrights Conference). Ms. Gionfriddo received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwriting, as well as the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights and an American Theatre Critics Association/Steinberg Citation. She has worked as a writer and producer for LAW & ORDER and LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT, and as a writer for COLD CASE. Her other TV work includes BORGIA and HOUSE OF CARDS. Ms. Gionfriddo is a graduate of Barnard College and Brown University's MFA playwriting program. She has taught at Brown University and Providence College. THE

RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN will be directed by frequent Capital Stage collaborator Shannon Mahoney (MAPLE & VINE, CLYBOURNE PARK, ENRON) in her Capital Stage directorial debut, and will feature Megan Smith (THE REAL THING, FIRST PERSON SHOOTER, LES LIASONS DANGEREUSES), Sam Misner (FIRST PERSON SHOOTER), Kelley Ogden (HUNTER GATHERERS), Phoebe Moyer, and Capital Stage Acting Apprentice Madilyn Cooper. The design team includes Brian Harrower (scenic), Rachel Malin (costumes), Sarah Thomson (costume assistant), Ron Madonia (lighting), and Ed Lee (sound).

Performances for RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN will begin with three previews on Wednesday, March 11 at 7:00 PM, and Thursday and Friday March 12 and 13 at 8:00 PM. The production will open Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 8:00 PM. Performances continue through April 12, 2015. Showtimes will be Wednesdays at 7:00 PM, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00 PM, and Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 PM. General ticket prices range from $22-$38. Discount tickets are available as follows: Preview tickets are $18-$20; Student Rush tickets are half-priced; Senior tickets are $2 off regular-priced tickets (excluding Saturday evenings); and Group Rates are available for parties of 12 or more. Tickets are currently available at the Capital Stage Box Office, by phone at (916) 995-5464, or online at capstage.org.