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By Jim Carnes

This article was published on 09.29.16

“Pick me! Pick me!”

“Pick me! Pick me!”

Photo courtesy of City Theatre

8 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. $10-$15; Art Court Theater in the Performing Arts Center, Sacramento City College, 3835 Freeport Boulevard; www.citytheatre.net.

Luigi Pirandello’s play Six Characters in Search of an Author has been controversial since its debut in 1921. This is theater within the theater as six characters who are born for the stage but are never given a play to perform crash a rehearsal of another play and demand a story be created for them. Peter Mohrmann directs.

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