By Chris Murphy
This is the month when we start learning about the new performing arts seasons. During May, we will learn about the new Gallo Center season and we are excited for that. There are so many new things on stage or rescheduled events from before that will make your evenings interesting. More and more events are popping up all the time, so make sure you are checking our event calendar at www.modestoview.com for updates.
Golden Bough is Back!
Golden Bough, an international touring and recording group of Celtic traditions, will headline CCAA/Mistlin’s first cabaret concert and fundraiser of 2022 on May 28th at 7:30 pm. The group brings a refreshing approach to Celtic music of Ireland, Scotland and the Celtic regions of Europe and North America. Tickets are $50 and include wine and dessert. Irish themed beverages will also be available for purchase. Buy tickets at ccaagallery.org/shop
Prospect Theatre
Top Girls – May 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill, follows an ambitious executive and the moral compromises she makes as she climbs the corporate ladder, this play invites audiences to define what feminism means and examine the price women often pay for success in a traditionally male realm. Written in 1982, the play is still terrifyingly topical in its portrait of an individualistic society in which the few thrive at the expense of the many. Patrons must be vaccinated.
Get tickets here > prospect.vbotickets.com/event/top_girls/55802
State Theatre
May 20th-21st brings The Sankofa Theatre Company’s: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, the next in a series of plays written by August Wilson’s 10 part series chronicling the African American experience decade by decade in the 20th century. Set in a Pittsburgh boarding house, it is the story of a makeshift family of people who come to stay, some for days, some longer, during the great migration of the 20th century’s second decade. Don’t miss this powerful stage play at the State. Tix and info at www.thestate,org
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Gallo Center
Central West Ballet’s Copella
Considered one of the greatest comic ballets of the 19th Century, Coppélia continues to be a highly revered classical work in the ballet repertory. It was originally choreographed by Arthur St. Léon in 1870, with music by Léo Delibes. This production marks Central West Ballet’s return to the beloved favorite of children everywhere, telling the story of an eccentric toymaker who dreams of bringing his mechanical dolls to life.
May 20 & 21 Tix info at www.galloarts.org
