2024 Season

Accused!

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written by Patricia Milton
directed by Kimberly Ridgeway
Jul 13–Aug 11

World Premiere #74: a comic murder mystery from the Central Works Writers Workshop

The Victorian Lady Detectives return in a hilarious murder mystery.  Just as the Lady Detectives have accepted a new murder case, a dead body turns up in the parlor of the Hunter Lodging House. And the evidence  points to Victorian Lady Detective Katie Smalls herself as the prime suspect. The trail of clues leads our intrepid detectives into a murderous web of anarchists and religious fanatics in their most daring caper yet!

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Fri-Sun: $35-45
Thu & previews: pay-what-you-can

Day of Performance Discounts

Fri-Sun: sliding scale $45-$20 at noon day of show

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Please note: We reserve seats only for subscribers; general seating for all other ticket-holders.

Performance calendar

(note 7pm showtime on Saturdays!)

Thu Fri Sat Sun
Jul 11
8pm
Preview		 12
8pm
Preview		 13
7pm
Opening		 14
5pm
18
8pm		 19
8pm		 20
7pm		 21
5pm
25
8pm		 26
8pm		 27
7pm		 28
5pm
Aug 1
8pm		 2
8pm		 3
7pm		 4
5pm
8
8pm		 9
8pm		 10
7pm		 11
5pm

Acting Ensemble:
Chelsea Bearce
Alan Coyne
Lauren Dunagan
Sindhu Singh
Jan Zvaifler

Stage Management: Natalia Rivera-Ramos
Costume design: Tammy Berlin
Sound design: Gregory Scharpen
Sound design: Stephanie Anne Johnson

 

 

Patricia Milton (playwright) is Resident Playwright at Central Works Theater in Berkeley. Her plays at Central Works include The Engine of Our Disruption, Bamboozled (Outstanding Production, East Bay, and Outstanding Ensemble, Theatre Bay Area), Hearts of Palm, Reduction in Force, The Victorian Ladies’ Detective Collective (BroadwayWorld Critics Choice “Best of Maine” 2022, at The Public Theater) and Escape from the Asylum (Outstanding Production, 2022, SF Bay Area Theatre Critics  Circle). Enemies: Foreign and Domestic (Central Works) was awarded Outstanding World Premiere Play by TBA. Without Mercy was commissioned and produced by Off-Broadway West. Her comedy Believers was produced in San Francisco (Wily West Productions) and ran for three years in Istanbul.
Kimberly Ridgeway (director) is a director, actor, playwright, and producer. Kimberly has directed projects locally for Altarena Playhouse, African American Shakespeare Company, Contra Costa Civic Theatre, Dragon Productions Theatre Company, Ubuntu Theatre Project, Bay Area Performing Arts Collective, Bay Area Drama Company, SF Playhouse, Town Hall Theatre, Playwrights Center of San Francisco, SF Playground, Theatre Rhinoceros, 3Girls Theatre and TheatreFirst. She has also directed projects for Three Willows Theatre (TX), National Black Theatre (NY), and Spokane Civic Theatre (WA). Kimberly wrote, produced and directed the full-length stage plays Prospect Place, Heavy Burdens, No More Secrets, The Confession, The Gigolo Chronicles, and The Drowning Pool.  Some of Kimberly’s notable acting roles include The Revolutionists, The Piano Lesson, Colman Domingo’s DOT, and her award-winning portrayal of Camae in Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop.

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