7 theaters in Modesto, California. 14 shows playing or coming up, 2 open auditions, 4 camps and classes.
Nick Zagone (adapting the 1945 film and the 1939 novel)
A world premiere play by Nick Zagone based on the 1945 film and the 1939 novel Detour: a man on the run sits down at a diner counter and tells a story that does not add up. Directed by Katherine Zagone. A Page 2 Stage discussion follows on Sunday, November 29 and a final cast talkback on Sunday, December 6.
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Gallo Center Repertory Company
A 1930s European perfumery romance: feuding clerks Amalia and Georg unknowingly fall for each other through anonymous letters. Directed and choreographed by Colleen Hawks-Pierce, music directed by Lisette Sims. Cast of volunteer local actors.
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Center Stage Kids presents an original musical comedy about the surprises, messiness and blessings of being together at Christmas.
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Staged radio readings of "Father Knows Best: Christmas Program" and "A Christmas Memory" (based on Truman Capote's short story), with live music and sound effects. Directed by Michael Hewitt. The Radio Cavalcade page describes the series as "fun-filled, family-friendly, vintage programming".
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Donald Margulies
George and Em look back across their life together and the waning years ahead as the earth's shadow crosses the moon. Directed by Laura Dickinson-Turner. A Page 2 Stage discussion follows on Sunday, January 31 and a final cast talkback on Sunday, February 7.
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August Wilson
Sankofa Theatre Company's production of August Wilson's play set in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse in 1911, part of the American Century Cycle, presented in partnership with Gallo Center Repertory Company.
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A staged radio reading of the Lux Radio Theater adaptation of Meet Me in St. Louis, with live music and sound effects. Directed by Michael Hewitt. The Radio Cavalcade page describes the series as "fun-filled, family-friendly, vintage programming".
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Oscar Wilde
Gallo Center Repertory Company
Oscar Wilde's comedy of manners about two gentlemen who invent alter egos named Ernest. Directed by Jack Souza. Cast of volunteer local actors.
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Annie Baker
Four students and their instructor meet weekly for an adult creative drama class in New England. Directed by Molly Souza, with Kathleen Ennis as Marty. A Page 2 Stage discussion follows on Sunday, April 4 and a final cast talkback on Sunday, April 11.
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A musical about a Wild West theme park that faces a modern rival and an unexpected bank robbery, and a scrappy young performer who proves that honoring the past does not mean fearing the future.
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Staged radio readings of "Boston Blackie: Blackie and the Fur Trade" and "The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: Lady in Mink", with live music and sound effects. Directed by Michael Hewitt. The Radio Cavalcade page describes the series as "fun-filled, family-friendly, vintage programming".
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Gallo Center Repertory Company
A satirical musical set in a drought-stricken future where private toilets are banned. Directed by Ryan Foy. Cast of volunteer local actors.
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Aristophanes (new adaptation by Laura Dickinson-Turner)
A new adaptation of Aristophanes' anti-war comedy, which the producer calls "racy and rambunctious". Co-directed by Laura Dickinson-Turner and Lisa Townsend. A Page 2 Stage discussion follows on Sunday, June 6 and a final cast talkback on Sunday, June 13.
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Staged radio readings of "Archie Andrews: Mr. Andrews' Wallpaper Adventure" and "My Favorite Husband: Knitting Baby Booties", with live music and sound effects. Directed by Michael Hewitt. The Radio Cavalcade page describes the series as "fun-filled, family-friendly, vintage programming".
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Note: Auditions place students in the grades 6 to 8 class; tuition is $330 for the semester. Spring semester registration opens Monday, Nov 16, 2026; deadline to register after casting is Dec 7, 2026. The page's audition registration link was not confirmed, so call (209) 338-5020.
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Oscar Wilde
Gallo Center Repertory Company
Note: The page says "GCRC is a volunteer-based community theatre program" and that audition sign-up forms are published about a month ahead; no sign-up link or audition time is posted yet. The page prints no year for these dates beyond the heading (January 12, 2027).
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youth theater
A children's musical theater studio in Modesto, launched in 2006, for students ages 5 to 18. It runs two semesters a year, fall and spring, and each one concludes with a production.
Christmastown opens Dec 13
The producing arm of the Gallo Center for the Arts in Modesto, presenting a season in the 440-seat Foster Family Theater. Its shows are directed and designed by local theater professionals, and it calls for adult actors of all ethnicities.
She Loves Me opens Dec 4 · 2 more shows coming up · 1 open audition
youth theater
An afterschool musical theater program for students in grades 1 to 8, run as a partnership of the Gallo Center for the Arts and the Stanislaus County Office of Education. Each ten-week semester ends in a production in the Foster Family Theater.
New Sheriff in Town opens Apr 16 · 1 open audition · 3 camps and classes
Calling itself Modesto's oldest community theater company, with "more than 50 wonderful years" behind it, Modesto Performing Arts is a resident company of the Gallo Center.
Nothing announced right now
Producing since 2001, Prospect Theater Project is a black-box nonprofit theater in Modesto with full-length plays, Radio Cavalcade staged radio readings, and an August One-Act Play Festival. It holds annual open season auditions and may add production-specific auditions.
Detour opens Nov 20 · 7 more shows coming up · 1 camp or class
Founded in 2012 with support from the Gallo Center for the Arts, Sankofa Theatre Company works to "develop and promote the cultivation of African American history, life and culture through the performing arts." It says it holds auditions several times a year.
Joe Turner's Come and Gone opens Feb 12
youth theater
Founded in 1992 by the Stanislaus County Office of Education and led by the Gallo Center's arts education team since 2018, Youth Entertainment Stage (YES) Company produces a full-length Broadway musical each summer with an auditioned cast of students in grades 7 to 12.
Nothing announced right now
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