Dreamlight Theatre

12/17/2020

Dame Judi Dench, who appeared in the 1987 BBC production of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts, sent a very special message to the cast of our show as we begin rehearsals for our virtual performances in January. Take a look.

11/24/2020

Featured on BroadwayWorld.com today.

Dreamlight Theatre, a new theatre based in Auburn, California, will produce a staged reading of Henrik Ibsen's classic tragedy, 'Ghosts' in a digital version to be streamed in January 2021. The company was founded earlier this year but put its original plans on hold as theatres were closed due to th...

11/23/2020

We are pleased to announce the cast for our upcoming staged reading of Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts".

Lorraine Poston as Mrs. Helen Alving
Luc Clopton as Oswald Alving
Steve Lambert at Pastor Manders
Erick Lindley as Jacob Engstrand
Amy Wolfley as Regina Engstrand

Stay tuned for more information.

11/23/2020

Coming Soon!

We are very pleased to announce our first production! We will be streaming a staged reading of Henrik's Ibsen's classic tragedy "Ghosts" early next year.

Written in 1881, "Ghosts" is a scathing commentary on morality. Perhaps one of Ibsen's most important works, it was banned in several countries for it's controversial and frank discussion of religion, familial roles, in**st, venereal disease, and euthanasia. As theatre critic Maurice Valency wrote in 1963, "regular tragedy dealt mainly with the unhappy consequences of breaking the moral code. "Ghosts", on the contrary, deals with the consequences of not breaking it."

When it was produced in England in 1891, it was reviled in the press, which referred to it as "a loathsome sore unbandaged; a dirty act done publicly ... gross, almost putrid indecorum ... literary carrion ... crapulous stuff." Now "Ghosts" is considered among Ibsen's greatest plays and one of the most important in Western theatre.

On her estate in rural Norway, Helen Alving lives with the bitter memory of her cruel, philandering late husband. To escape the ghosts that plague her, she decides to tell her son, Oswald, the truth about his outwardly respectable father when Oswald returns home from Paris. However, Oswald has returned home with a secret of his own. In Ibsen's "forbidden play", long-held secrets are revealed, uncomfortable truths are faced, and a troubled family meets a cruel and unavoidable fate.

Stay connected for more information about streaming dates and times.

Produced in conjunction with Innervoice.Media.

10/13/2020

Already proving to be a very popular event. Don't miss out.

Tables of two are limited and selling out fast!

If you are interested in reserving seats via Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, or emailed check, call 530-718-2152 or email [email protected]

10/12/2020

Coming to Auburn, California, Winter 2022

A spikey, powerful, and nerve-wracking story of four real estate salesmen, colleagues in the same firm, who are engaged in a sales competition to try and sell off as many units of real estate as possible. But when some of the character feel that the leads are weighted in favor of those already doing well, alternative tactics are deployed to try and gain ground. Here is Mamet at his very best, writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough characters who cajole, connive, wheedle, and wheel and deal for a piece of the action -- where closing a sale can mean a brand new Cadillac but losing one can mean losing it all.

The play has been critically acclaimed since its first release, garnering major awards including the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 1984 New York Drama Critics' Circle for Best American Play, the 2005 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play, the 1983 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, and the 2005 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.

Note: Dates subject to COVID-19 restrictions.

10/12/2020

Coming to Auburn, California, October 2021.

On a sweltering summer morning in 1892, in a small New England city, a prominent businessman and his wife were brutally axed to death in their home. Their daughter Lizzie Borden was the prime suspect. Lizzie’s trial was a coast-to-coast media sensation, and her story has become an American legend.

Lizzie Borden took an axe
Gave her mother forty whacks
When she saw what she had done
Gave her father forty-one

LIZZIE is four women fronting a six-piece rock band. LIZZIE is rage, s*x, betrayal, and bloody murder. LIZZIE is American mythology set to a blistering rock score. LIZZIE is a new American musical with a sound owing less to Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber than to Bikini Kill, the Runaways, and Heart.

Note: Dates subject to COVID-19 restrictions.

10/12/2020

Coming to Auburn, California, Spring 2021*

1939 Hollywood is abuzz. Legendary producer David O. Selznick has shut down production of his new epic, Gone with the Wind, a film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s novel. The screenplay, you see, just doesn’t work. So what’s an all-powerful movie mogul to do? While fending off the film’s stars, gossip columnists and his own father-in-law, Selznick sends a car for famed screenwriter Ben Hecht and pulls formidable director Victor Fleming from the set of The Wizard of Oz. Summoning both to his office, he locks the doors, closes the shades, and on a diet of bananas and peanuts, the three men labor over five days to fashion a screenplay that will become the blueprint for one of the most successful and beloved films of all time.

Note: Dates subject to COVID_19 restrictions.

10/11/2020

Dreamlight Theatre is pleased to be able to partner with Cyrus Music Foundation and Innervoice Media to bring Peter Noone to Auburn on November 12 in an intimate and socially-distanced evening of acoustic music. So glad we could be a part of this.

Special thanks to Cyrus Music Foundation, Innervoice Media, and Dreamlight Theatre for supporting this exciting socially-distanced evening: