{"id":162,"date":"2016-04-04T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2024-03-24T03:56:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T03:56:12","slug":"a-masterpiece-of-comic-timing-at-b-street-theatre-through-april-17-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"A MASTERPIECE OF COMIC \u2026 TIMING AT B STREET THEATRE \u2022 THROUGH APRIL 17, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/submergemag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/A-Masterpiece-of-Comic-%E2%80%A6-Timing-_B-St.-Theater-a.jpg\" alt=\"A Masterpiece of Comic \u2026 Timing B-Street Theater\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo by Rudy Meyers<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sacramento\u2019s local treasure, the B Street Theatre, will host a limited run of Robert Caisley\u2019s new play\u00a0<em>A Masterpiece of Comic \u2026 Timing<\/em>. The story takes place in the early \u201860s in Scottsdale, Arizona, where a producer is trying to hurriedly produce a comedy with the aide of a writer who has more than his fair share or hang-ups. \u201cIn this play, I have to say, shamefully, the only purpose of the comedy is to just make people wet their pants. I really want people to laugh,\u201d said Caisley during a recent interview with Capital Public Radio. Caisley, a professor of theatre and head of dramatic writing at the University\u00a0of Idaho, has written many plays which have been featured in residencies from coast to coast\u2014from New Jersey to Washington state.\u00a0<em>A Masterpiece of Comic \u2026 Timing<\/em>\u00a0runs now through April 17, 2016. Showtimes are Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m.; Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 5 and 9 p.m.; and 2 p.m. matinee on Wednesdays and Sundays. Buy tickets now at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bstreettheatre.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bstreettheatre.org<\/a>. -EJ<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Submerge)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Rudy Meyers Sacramento\u2019s local treasure, the B Street Theatre, will host a limited run of Robert Caisley\u2019s new play\u00a0A Masterpiece of Comic \u2026 Timing. The story takes place in the early \u201860s in Scottsdale, Arizona, where a producer is trying to hurriedly produce a comedy with the aide of a writer who has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}