LUNA GALE Comes to Capital Stage This Fall

Capital Stage continues its 2017-18 Season: Future Tense with the Sacramento Premiere of Luna Gale by Award Winning Playwright Rebecca Gilman. This 2015 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award Winning play tells the story of a fight for who and what is best for the future of baby Luna. Luna Gale will be the second production of Capital Stage's 13th Season, and will run from October 18 - November 19, 2017.

Caroline Cox has been working in the Department of Human Services for twenty-five years. She thinks troubled teenagers Peter and Karlie, the parents of newborn Luna Gale, are a typical case. But she discovers an array of unspoken motives amongst all the parties with an interest in Luna's future. With events accelerating and Caroline uncovering more of the truth, her conclusions begin to look startlingly unconventional - even to her.

Rebecca Gilman Rebecca Gilman is an artistic associate at the Goodman. Ms. Gilman's plays include Luna Gale; A True History of the Johnstown Flood; Dollhouse; Boy Gets Girl; Spinning Into Butter; Blue Surge (all of which were originally produced by the Goodman); Soups, Stews, and Casseroles: 1976 and The Crowd You're in With (also at the Goodman); The Glory of Living; The Sweetest Swing in Baseball and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Ms. Gilman is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, The Harper Lee Award, The Scott McPherson Award, The Prince Prize for Commissioning New Work, The Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, The Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright, The George Devine Award, The Theatre Masters Visionary Award, The Great Plains Playwright Award and an Illinois Arts Council playwriting fellowship. Boy Gets Girl received an Olivier nomination for Best New Play and she was named a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for The Glory of Living. She is a member of the Council of the Dramatists Guild of America and a board member of the ACLU of Illinois. She received her MFA in playwriting from the University of Iowa. Ms. Gilman is an associate professor of playwriting and screenwriting at Northwestern University as part of its MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage program. She is the recipient of a Global Connections Grant by Theatre Communications Group and an American Scandinavian Foundation Creative Writing Grant.

Michael Stevenson Michael Stevenson is the Producing Artistic Director of Capital Stage where he has directed Stupid F##king Bird, How To Use A Knife (NNPN Rolling World Premiere), Disgraced, Mr. Burns, Ideation, Clybourne Park, Mauritius, Erratica (World Premiere), Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and for the Delta King Theatre, Bad Dates. He has directed at regional theatres including: the B Street Theatre, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Orlando Shakespeare Company, Perseverance Theatre Company, and Sacramento Theatre Company. As an actor he has appeared at many regional theatres including: 42nd Street Moon, American Conservatory Theatre, The Aurora Theatre, Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, Capital Stage, B Street Theatre, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, and Marriott's Lincolnshire Theatre. He holds an M.F.A. from The American Conservatory Theatre.

Luna Gale will be directed by Michael Stevenson and will feature Lauren Hirsch (Capital Stage debut), Ian Hopps (Stupid F##king Bird), Shannon Mahoney (Clybourne Park, Maple and Vine, ENRON, In The Next Room or The Vibrator Play), Jezebel Olivares (Capital Stage debut), Amy Resnick (August: Osage County, Blackberry Winter), Peter Story (Capital Stage debut), and Aaron Wilton (The Santaland Diaries, Clybourne Park, ENRON). The production design team will include Timothy McNamara (Scenic design), Rebecca Redmond (Costume design), Ron Madonia (Lighting design), Irene Velasquez (Properties design), and Ed Lee (Sound design).

Performances for Luna Gale will begin with three previews on Wednesday, Oct. 18 & Thursday, Oct. 19 at 7:00 pm, and Friday, Oct. 20 at 8:00 pm. The production will open Saturday, Oct. 21 at 8:00 pm. Performances will continue through Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017. Showtimes will be Wednesdays & Thursdays at 7:00 pm, Fridays at 8:00 pm, Saturdays at 2:00 pm & 8:00 pm, and Sundays at 2:00 pm. Regular ticket prices range from $28-45. Discount tickets are available as follows: Student Rush tickets are half priced with valid student ID within 1 hour of performance; Senior tickets are $5 off regular priced tickets; Military personnel tickets are $10 off regular priced tickets with valid ID; and Group Rate tickets are $5 off each 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.