Ray of Light Theatre
Ray of Light Theatre is a theatre company in San Francisco.
The company produces a season of musical theatre from May to November each year with select cabaret performances throughout the year. Its inaugural season was in 2002 in which the company produced You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Since that time Ray of Light Theatre has produced over thirty shows in San Francisco.
History
Started by the founding artistic director, Shane Ray, and founding board co-chair, Adrienne Abrams. The current Artistic Director of Ray of Light Theatre is Jason Hoover.
Production highlights & honors:
-In 2015, ROLT produced the Bay Area Premiere of Heathers the Musical and worked with writers Tim Maner, Steven Cheslik-deMeyer and Alan Stevens Hewitt on producing Lizzie the Musical.
- In 2014, ROLT worked with Urinetown writers, Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann on developing their new musical, Yeast Nation
- In 2013, ROLT produced the Bay Area Premiere of Carrie
- In 2012, the ROLT production of Sweeney Todd was nominated for 6 BATCC awards, winning best featured actress
- In 2011, the ROLT production of Assassins was nominated for 13 BATCC awards, winning 8, including Best Musical.
- In 2010, ROLT mounted the West Coast Premiere of Jerry Springer: The Opera at the Victoria Theatre in San Francisco.
- In 2009, the month-long run of The Who's Tommy garnered six Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards (of eleven nods).
- In 2008, Ray of Light Theatre's The Rocky Horror Show was nominated for five BATCC awards and received critical acclaim.
- In 2007, the company produced the San Francisco premiere of Disney's High School Musical on Stage!'
- In 2005, ROLT produced Bat Boy: The Musical, directed by Broadway star James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin, Memphis the Musical, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee)
- In 2005, 2 Broke Girls star Beth Behrs appeared as Sandy Dumbrowski in the musical Grease
Previous shows
2015:
Heathers: The Musical
Lizzie the Musical
The Rocky Horror Show
2014:
Triassic Parq
Yeast Nation
2013:
Into the Woods
Carrie (musical)
2012:
The Full Monty
Sweeney Todd
2010/2011:
Jerry Springer: The Opera
Assassins (musical)
Alice in Wonderland Jr. (ROLT Jr.)
2009/2010:
The Who's Tommy
Baby: A Musical
Honk! Jr. (ROLT Jr.)
2008/2009:
The Rocky Horror Show
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
Beauty and the Beast Jr. (ROLT Jr.)
2007/2008:
Disney's High School Musical on Stage!
The Wizard of Oz (ROLT Jr.)
2006/2007:
Bat Boy: The Musical
Broadway Gala: ROLT's Fifth Anniversary Gala
The Secret Garden in Concert
Songs for a New World
The Music Man Jr. (ROLT Jr.)
2005/2006:
Bat Boy: The Musical
Seussical
Broadway Gala: A Little Bit in Love
The Last Five Years
Annie Jr. (ROLT Jr.)
2004/2005:
Broadway Gala - An Evening of Stephens
Honk!
Grease
Fiddler on the Roof Jr. (ROLT Jr.)
2003/2004:
The Wizard of Oz in Concert
Into the Woods
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (ROLT Jr.)
2002/2003:
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Schoolhouse Rock! Live Jr. (ROLT Jr.)
2001/2002:
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown