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We started our streaming and video series The Next Stage in the dark days of April 2020, featuring performances and discussions with actors, musicians and other artists.
These days, with the theater reopened (thankfully!), The Next Stage has become a series of Zoom talkbacks that complement our mainstage shows.
We love hanging out with our directors, actors, designers and other artists online and getting the scoop on making theater!
Missed a Zoom talkback? Or want to watch the performances, discussions and classes we streamed during the Covid shutdown? No problem: we archive recordings of all our broadcasts. Watch each video via City Lights’ YouTube in the windows below.
Smooth song stylings with Téa Noelle
January 28, 2021
With a warm and sultry vibe, singer-songwriter Téa Noelle brings us an evening of original music. She calls her style “indie RnB with a jazzy pop flow.”
Theater critic Lily Janiak
December 20, 2020
The San Francisco Chronicle‘s Lily Janiak talks about life as a critic in 2020, plexiglass partitions, masks and all.
Alabama Story scenes & memories
December 13, 2020
Actors from our 2018 production of Kenneth Jones’ drama “Alabama Story” perform scenes and share memories, with Ken as our special guest.
Share the stage: Why do you love the theater?
December 4, 2020
Our favorite theater stories, from onstage spiders to broken props. And a cookie falling from the sky?
Yoga with teacher & dancer Phillip Pettiford
November 27, 2020
After a special session of breath work and meditation just for members of The Next Stage, Phillip Pettiford teaches a gentle / restorative yoga class.
The Corner Laughers
November 13, 2020
Clever wordplay, magical melodies and heartbreaking harmonies. Karla Kane, Khoi Huynh and KC Bowman from this Redwood City indie-pop band serve up an evening of original music.
A Calendar Girls reunion
November 6, 2020
The cast of our 2016 comedy “Calendar Girls” holds a four-year reunion — almost everyone could make it, including ever-patient director Jeffrey Bracco. This program is a hoot.
Costume design with Pat Tyler & Melissa Sanchez
October 23, 2020
After a private tour of Pat Tyler’s home studio for Next Stage members, Pat and Melissa take us behind the scenes of the musical “LIZZIE” (2017), which they costumed together.
