Show Round Up: Homegrown Theatre
Bay Area talent taking the stage!
It is a great weekend for Homegrown talent here in the Bay Area. We have five shows that have achieved the TBA Highlights Homegrown Achievement in the round up this week. Want to see a show that is by and for local theatre artists? Check out these shows below. While you are at it you can explore the other productions that have received Highlights Achievements taking the stage. So grab your favorite theatre buddy and plan a night at the theatre that supports your values!
Learn all about this week’s shows:
Only This Weekend
Don’t miss out!
Exile | Banishment | Home at Ensemble for These Times – Homegrown Achievement
Found Company: A Spontaneous Staged Reading Event at Mission Stage Works – Open Doors Achievement
Opening
What’s opening this weekend?
Come From Away at Royal Underground Theatre Company – Homegrown Achievement
About the show:
On September 11, 2001, 38 planes carrying nearly 7,000 passengers were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland. Overnight, the town’s population nearly doubled. With the world in shock, the people of Gander opened their homes, schools, and hearts to the stranded travelers—offering meals, shelter, music, and a place to begin making sense of the unimaginable.
Based on the remarkable true story, Come From Away follows the islanders and the “come from aways” as they find humor, kindness, and unexpected connection in the days that follow. Its propulsive folk-rock score, colored by Celtic influences, carries a story full of warmth, wit, and humanity.
Revival Hall is a gathering place, and that makes it a fitting home for this story of a community welcoming strangers as family. Our immersive staging brings the actors and musicians into close conversation with the room. The cast transforms in full view, moving between the people of Gander and the travelers they welcomed, while the live band fuels the storytelling. This production has its own shape, rhythm, and relationship with the space—an intimate, actor-musician interpretation created for Revival Hall. Come share the room, the music, and the story of what can happen when people show up for one another. Come From Away is presented in special arrangement with Music Theatre International.
Closing
Last chance to see these shows!
Measure for Measure at Berkeley Shakespeare Company – Homegrown Achievement – Going Green Achievement
THE ADDAMS FAMILY at Palo Alto Players – Homegrown Achievement
The Madness of Lady Bright at Mannakin Theater & Dance – Homegrown Achievement
Betrayal at Marin Theatre
The Black Rider at Mercury Theater
Theatre People or The Angel Next Door at South Valley Civic Theatre
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