California Stage Theater Company to Present EASTER RISING: DUBLIN 1916, 3/18-20

For one weekend only, California Stage Theater Company will honor Dublin's fallen and celebrate its fighting spirit with Ray Tatar's Easter Rising: Dublin 1916. This moving Readers Theater piece commemorates the 1916 Dublin uprising that sparked a revolution. Four performances will be given March 18th-20th.

Ray Tatar's Easter Rising: Dublin 1916 takes audiences into the rough and tumble streets of Dublin during the infamous insurrection. Told from the diverse perspectives of the people who lived it--unsuspecting bystanders, a Priest dragged by duty into the fray, and young revolutionaries fighting for their freedom-Tatar's evocative piece captures the hope, the fear, and the rage of a people swept up in revolt.

Easter Rising features live music and song by Mike Euritt, Shane Carpenter and Robert Scott and an all-star cast including Gay Cooper, Tom Witchie, Ovation Stage's Penny Kline, James C. Anderson, Zachary Coles, Cynthia Drumbor, Joss, Lucio, Scott Griffith and Mahlon Hall Greenhalgh who bring first-hand accounts of the Uprising to impassioned life. Author and California Stage Producing Artistic Director Ray Tatar directs.

Ray Tatar has been the Producing Artistic Director of California Stage for 15 years, succeeding the late Dennis Wilkerson. He served as Theater and Literature Grants Administrator for the California Arts Council for 26 years, as well as the founding Executive Director of the Los Angeles Theater Alliance and Founder of the Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance (SARTA). For the past 8 years he has hosted LiveWire, a weekly television talk-show on arts and social services in the Sacramento region.

Easter Rising: Dublin 1916 will run March 18th-20th in the California Stage Theater at the R25 Arts Center, a three-venue complex located at 1721 25th Street in Midtown Sacramento. Show times are Friday at 8 PM, Saturday at 2 PM and 8 PM, and Sunday at 2 PM. Ticket prices are $20.00 for general admission; $15.00 for military, students, SARTA members and seniors; and $12.00 for groups of six or more. Tickets can be purchased at calstage.org or by calling 916-451-5822.