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Capital Stage Sees Progress on Relocation Project

By: Apr. 21, 2011
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Since announcing its impending move to midtown, Capital Stage has been busy working on the design and permit process to prepare for the renovations to 2215 J Street. On April 15, the city granted the final building permits to allow construction to begin.

"The planning and permitting phase took longer than we had anticipated, but we are on track and very excited to be rolling up our sleeves and getting our new theatre built," said Jonathan Williams, company co-founder and project manager for the renovations. The former armory building in midtown will be repurposed into a 125-seat live theatre venue for the small professional theatre company. Demolition of the building's interior was completed on April 20 and the renovations are expected to be completed by mid-summer. "Demo went very smoothly. Next up is extensive plumbing and electrical upgrades," said Williams.

For the past six years Capital Stage has performed on board the River Boat Delta King. The company had been looking to move to a new home in a more central location and negotiated a long-term lease for the ideally located Old Armoury building in August 2010. Since that time Capital Stage and its board of directors have been busy with fundraising to pay for the $300,000 renovation project. "To date we have raised $215,000," said Stephanie Gularte, the company's founding artistic director. "Our board members and supporters are working hard to raise the remaining $85,000 over the next three months."

Cementing it's midtown presence, Capital Stage recently signed a lease on a 1400 square foot office space at 2220 J Street directly across the street from the new theatre site. This will be a signficant upgrade from the company's current small, shared administrative and box office space on board the Delta King. The company has already begun to use the new space as the construction office during the renovations. The staff will begin moving its administrative work to the new address at the beginning of the summer. "We are very fortunate to have found offices so close to our new theatre," said Gularte, "and the increased work space will allow for greater productivity in our operations."

Capital Stage plans to open its 2011-12 season in the fall in the new theatre location.
Mission

Capital Stage Company's mission is to be a dynamic leader in the evolution of the contemporary live theatre landscape in the Capital region and to passionately engage audiences in the art of live storytelling with bold, innovative plays performed by professional artists, in an intimate, up close setting. With a strong commitment to expanding the base of working artists in the greater Sacramento region, we shall develop a company of actors, directors, writers, designers, and technical staff who are dedicated to bringing bold, lively productions of contemporary and classic plays to our community.

While part of the mission of any theater company is to entertain its audience, we at Capital Stage feel strongly that the productions we mount address issues that are vital to understanding the society we live in and ourselves as human beings in that society. We address themes of power and manipulation in relationships between men and women, children and parents, and organizations and individuals. We invite audiences to question the ethics and meaning of art, the definitions of sanity and intelligence, and the line between exploitation and legitimate relationship. We believe that in a large and growing urban environment, where individuals and groups are constantly bombarded with information and demands for decisions, the need for thoughtful examination of our interactions in society has never been greater.

 



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