IL DUCATO / The New Mikado

August 12, 2pm and 7:30pm; August 13, 2pm

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

August 19, 2pm and 7:30pm; August 20, 2pm

Blue Shield Theatre, YBCA, San Francisco

August 26, 2pm and 7:30pm; August 27, 2pm

Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek

Lamplighters’ re-imagined version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s THE MIKADO, the most internationally popular of all of the canon. Our production contains all their famous dialog and music (“I’ve Got a Little List”, “Three Little Maids”, “A More Humane Mikado”), re-set in sumptuous Renaissance Italy! No matter where this show is set, it deftly skewers rank, power, hypocrisy, and the law while ensuring that love triumphs.

Simulcast on August 20th

ALL CREATURES G&S OR, TED, YOU’RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE

October 8, 3pm

Herbst Theatre, San Francisco

Our 59th gala production, featuring another topsy turvy original musical satire!

This year the Lamplighters Champagne Gala creators are contemplating a new musical mash up of themes from the beloved series “All Creatures Great and Small” plus “Ted Lasso”. Come join the fun! Our largest fundraiser of the year includes a complete, original comedy set to Sullivan’s music, silent auction, and Fund-a-Need, allowing our patrons to enjoy and simultaneously support our company!

Also simulcast

RUDDYGORE or, The Bruja’s Curse

February 24, 2pm and 7:30pm; February 25, 2pm

Blue Shield Theatre, YBCA, San Francisco

March 2, 2pm; March 3, 2pm

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

The Murgatroyds are a Cornish family that moved to Hidalgo for the mining business in the 1800’s. They had hoped to escape the infamous family curse of committing one crime a day or dying a terrible death, but they brought it with them! Combining all the familiar characters and music with folklórico dancing and Day-of-the-Dead style ghostly ancestors, Lamplighters’ new production of RUDDYGORE will spook and delight old and new audiences alike!

Simulcast on February 25th

THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD

May 4 at 7pm; May 5 at 2pm

Presented by Hayward Parks and Recreation at:
Douglas Morrison Theatre
22311 N. Third Street
Hayward, CA. 94546
(510) 881-6700. Tickets on sale early 2024

May 11 at 7:30pm; May 12 at 2pm

May 17 and May 18 at 7:30pm; May 19 at 2pm

Presidio Theatre Performing Arts Center

Based on Charles Dickens’ final unfinished novel, this hilarious whodunit invites the audience to solve its mystery by choosing the identity of the murderer. The tale is presented as a show-within-a-show, as the Music Hall Royale – a delightfully loony Victorian theatre company – presents Dickens’ brooding mystery. Musical numbers include “Perfect Strangers,” “Don’t Quit While You’re Ahead,” “Off to The Races” and “Moonfall.” Simulcast on May 19th

HERBST THEATRE / TAUBE ATRIUM THEATRE

401 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-392-4400

LESHER CENTER FOR THE ARTS

1601 Civic Drive
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
925-943-7469

LIVERMORE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

2400 First Street
Livermore, CA 94550
925-373-6800