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SACRAMENTO'S PREMIER

BLACK
THEATER

Celebration Arts amplifies the rich tapestry of the Black experience through the transformative mediums of theater, music, and dance. Through performance and storytelling, we empower, educate, and celebrate our vibrant culture.

EARLY GIVING IS OPEN!

SUPPORT CELEBRATION ARTS ON THE BIG DAY OF GIVING

Celebration Arts amplifies the rich tapestry of the Black experience through the transformative mediums of theater, music, and dance.


Through performance and storytelling, we empower, educate, and celebrate our vibrant culture.


Your Big Day of Giving Donations help keep our spotlight bright and provide artists with an inclusive space to learn and shine!


Please open your hearts and your wallets and give now through May 2!


ON SALE NOW

TOPDOG / UNDERDOG

Written By Suzan-Lori Parks

Directed by Melinda Wilson Ramey

June 7 – 30, 2024


Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Drama and a 2023 Tony Award for Best Revival, TOPDOG / UNDERDOG by Suzan-Lori Parks will grace the Celebration Arts stage June 7 - 30, 2024.


Melinda Wilson Ramey, one of Sacramento's masterful and innovative directors, leads the production. The stellar cast of this powerful two-person play includes Conrad Crump (SWEAT at City Theater, DIRECT FROM DEATHROW THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS at Celebration Arts) and Donald Lacy III (A RAISIN IN THE SUN at Celebration Arts, DEATH OF A SALESMAN).


TOPDOG/UNDERDOG is an electrifying journey into the complexities of brotherhood and destiny. It tells the story of two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, names given to them as a joke by their father. They are haunted by their past and an obsession with the street con game three-card monte.


Audiences will be thrust into a riveting tale of sibling rivalry, survival, betrayal, and identity. Don't miss out. Secure your tickets now!


COMMUNITY PRODUCTION

THE RISK FOR FREEDOM

SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2024

TWO PERFORMANCES 4:30 pm + 6:30 pm

The year is 1854 and the Fugitive Slave Laws have been passed. A conductor for the Underground Railroad receives a fugitive slave in the Indianapolis Station AME church. The Fugitive has been moving from station to station on the Underground Railroad. Witness how the two learn more about each other and form a shared bond during the tense waiting period they must endure, knowing that the possibility of being caught and captured was great. They are willing to take the risk for freedom.



This is a community rental, and the production is not managed by Celebration Arts.

ON VIEW

BLACK GIRL MAGIC

ART EXHIBITION

We are incredibly excited to announce a collab with BLACK ARTIST FOUNDRY to bring the BLACK GIRL MAGIC ART EXHIBITION to the community!

For the 2024 Season of Black Girl Magic, our walls have been transformed into an art gallery, and patrons will experience awe-inspiring works from 11 talented Black women artists who call Sacramento home.

We thank
Abayomi Brownfield, Aliyah Sidqe, Beth Consetta Rubel, Michaela Stewart, Nataki Owino, Noelle Tavares, Nia Brown, Omonivie Okhade, Shani Zuberi, Shawntay Gorman, and Tasha Nichole King for sharing their works in a celebration of the Black woman in beauty, strength and complexity.

Stay tuned for more info about the artists and upcoming special events.

In the meantime, grab your tickets for ZORA & LANGSTON and be sure to leave time to explore the gallery and your opportunity to add works for sale to your personal collection!

Image Credits:
Noelle Taveres, “Jerrod: An Ode to Solange,” 2023. Mixed media on canvas, 24”x30.”


Aliyah Sidqe, “Family Portrait,” 2022. Oil on canvas, “16x20.”


Shawntay Gorman, “Asaili Dickson,” 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 36”x36.”

ON SALE NOW

MUD, RIVER, STONE

By Lynn Nottage

Directed By Nashell Lynem 

August 9 -September 1, 2024

An African-American couple vacationing in Africa takes a turn off the main highway and finds themselves stranded during the rainy season in the remnants of a grand hotel. In a surprising twist, the couple’s comic and romantic adventure takes on absurd dimensions, and their relationship is tested by the volatile politics of Africa, learning what the hungry human spirit will do for food and a warm blanket.


2024 SEASON OF

BLACK GIRL MAGIC

JOIN US FOR OUR 2024 CELEBRATION OF BLACK WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS AND DIRECTORS!


FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE / WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF


ZORA & LANGSTON


TOPDOG / UNDERDOG


MUD, RIVER, STONE


CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY


TINKER THE TOY MAKER


All tickets and flex passes on sale now! 


A composite graphic that reads Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun Directed by James Ellison III Dec 1 - 24, 2023. The image has an outline of the side profile of a black woman with a house and trees inside the shape.

2024 SEASON OF BLACK GIRL MAGIC SPONSORS

Come join the Celebration!

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PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY

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CA State Assemblymember Kevin McCarty logo

We acknowledge that Celebration Arts resides on the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary homelands of the Nisenan and Miwok Nations. The larger Sacramento area and its rivers serve as a gathering place for many local tribes from the surrounding valley and foothills including the Nisenan, Southern Maidu, Valley and Plains Miwok, Patwin Wintun, and the Wilton Rancheria.


We advocate for Indigenous struggles against ongoing settler-colonization.We recognize and acknowledge the labor upon which our waterways, our country, our state, and our facility are built.


We acknowledge the labor inequities that built our country on the bodies of enslaved people, immigrants, migrant and incarcerated workers. We advocate for equitable quality of living conditions for all laborers.We affirm our commitment to these land and labor acknowledgements through our mission to uplift and educate stories, in particular African-American and Black stories, through our work each day.

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