2018 highlights at Z Space

Lucia Berlin: Stories: Feb. 14-March 11. Word for Word, which translates short stories from page to stage without changing a word, adapts works from Lucia Berlin’s “A Manual for Cleaning Women,” which made the New York Times bestseller list when it was posthumously published in 2015.

Ghost Light: Feb. 16-March 21. David Allen has photographed Bay Area actors for theater companies’ promotional artwork for 25 years. This exhibition of portraits, available for viewing prior to Z Space productions or by appointment, offers a more intimate look at more than 20 prominent local actors.

Weightless: Feb. 23-March 18. Becca Wolff directs the Kilbanes (the wife-and-husband rock band of Kate Kilbane and Dan Moses) in a world-premiere commission of a rock opera about the sisters Procne and Philomela in Ovid’s “Metamorphosis.”

The Birthday Lottery: March 29-April 1. Richard Fouts’ new play, directed by Suze Allen in a Communicado production, chronicles five brothers who are torn apart by the Vietnam War’s draft lottery.

Disruption: April 5-29. A female CEO tries to avert a PR disaster as an anonymous whistle-blower threatens to go public with allegations of corporate chicanery and sexual harassment. AJ Baker is calling her world premiere, which Louis Parnell directs for 3Girls Theatre Company, “a fastpaced whodunnit for our #MeToo moment.”

Word for Word’s Anniversary!: Aug. 8-Sept. 2. Z Space’s resident company celebrates its own silver anniversary with performances of stories by Tobias Wolff and George Saunders.

The Brother(s): Nov. 14-Dec. 9. Adapted from a short story by Lysley Tenorio, Colman Domingo’s world premiere, set in San Francisco in the early 1990s and featuring a trans chorus, is about accepting family as they are.

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