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26th Season Opener: ‘The Whale’ Runs through Feb 12th

‘The Whale’  Opened Our 26th Season at Elly Award-Winning California Stage

The Whale
Joel Mario Rickert and Aviv Hannan in The Whale.

Fresh off winning an Elly Award for best production of a new script, California Stage opened the 26th season with the award winning play The Whale, Samuel D. Hunter’s incisive look at love, relationships and religious intolerance. Starring Joel Mario Rickert and directed by Shawn O’Neal, it opened January 13th.

The Whale is the recipient of the 2013 Lucille Lortel Award, Best Play, the 2013 Drama Desk Award for Significant Contribution to Theatre and the 2013 GLAAD Media Award, Outstanding Theatre. Continue reading