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Shows and Events
Every month, there are new performances, workshops, and community events to explore.
Upcoming Performances and Events
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Bloom: A Sensory Adventure
Now Booking for Spring 2025 in both the Bay Area/Central Valley and NYC!
Join Ant, Squirrel, Bee, and Bird on a magical journey as they work together to awaken a sleeping tree.​ But our critter friends can't do it alone - they need your help! On our adventure, you'll explore each part of the tree that these animals call home. We'll move our bodies, raise our voices, and work as a team to get our tree to BLOOM! For ages 2-5.​
Learn more about bringing this enchanting adventure to your community.
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Ignite Story Circles
Saturday, May 17 @ 10AM in Lodi
Saturday, June 7 @ 10AM in Redwood City
Discover the power of storytelling and connection at this engaging, free event led by Fuse Theatre’s founder and artistic director, Stacey Ardelean. Whether you're new to Fuse or already familiar with our work, this is a great opportunity to learn how we collaborate with communities through the arts.
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Fresh Ink Fest
We are currently seeking new partners for future festivals!
Partner with Fuse Theatre to produce a Fresh Ink Play Fest for your community. Fresh Ink uplifts the voices of our young people and gives a stage to your community’s stories. Selected plays will be fully produced with local directors and actors. Young playwrights of any experience level are encouraged to submit. A central theme will be determined with each partnering organization.
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Production History
Fresh Ink Fest in Lodi
Winter 2025
Exciting new plays by young, local playwrights! This year's plays looked at the theme of "ISOLATION" through a wide variety of styles, genres, and ingenuity.
Fresh Ink Fest was produced through a partnership between Fuse Theatre and Changing Faces Theater Company.
Therapy Sessions
Fall 2023
Therapy Sessions is an immersive musical experience designed to reconnect communities through the healing powers of song and storytelling. Melissa Modifer’s story of hope, love, loss, resilience, and, most importantly, gratitude toured the Bay Area and Central California in the Fall of 2023.
Special Delivery
Fall 2021/Winter 2022
How do we stay in touch with those we are not near? This question drove the artist collective at Fuse Theatre (the "Sparks") to devise a story to be told through creative pieces of mail - delivered to you at home. Participants experienced storytelling through the mail. 10-12 pieces of mail that unveiled the story and characters. Special Delivery was produced with a generous CA$H grant from Theatre Bay Area.
Feeling Home
Spring 2023
Feeling Home is an immersive, sensorial theatre experience created by Fuse Theatre to build empathy and compassion towards those in our community making a new home. During this event, the audience explored themes of rebuilding a home, keeping traditions alive, and facing discrimination. The show was performed in multiple rooms throughout the San Mateo County History Museum.
Urgency of Now
February 2022
Fuse collaborated with Breakthrough Project for Social Justice in Lodi, California to create a performance project based on 5th and 6th graders’ essays responding to MLK’s speech on “the fierce urgency of now.” The final project was performed by community members and visiting teaching artists on MLK Day 2022 and streamed live from the California Islamic Center.
Mitos Project
December 2021
MITOS is a new work by nationally acclaimed composer Gabriela Lena Frank commissioned by Bay Area based classical music group Quinteto Latino, who partnered with Fuse Theatre to create an interactive performance piece.
Affinity Lunch Minutes
April 2021
Ben and Jasmine are the only two Black teachers at Penn Valley, a private Quaker school. Jasmine is passionate and boundary pushing, while Ben has worked his way up the ranks at the school to be Diversity Dean thanks to his “agreeable” nature. A racially charged discipline decision ignites a divide at the school and in Jasmine and Ben’s collegial relationship. A virtual reading of this play was presented by Fuse alongside playwright Nick Malakhow.
Slice of Life
March 2021
Fuse presented an evening of plays by playwright Karen Zacarías.
Co-EXIST Festival
June 2020
Fuse and Dragon Productions Theatre Company, dedicated our Co-EXIST virtual platforms to support BIPOC and LGBTQ artists and tell underrepresented stories on our stages. The Co-EXIST Festival programming included talk backs, peer panels, and community conversations to create additional dialogue around the plays and their themes.
Joumou
December 2020
Joumou is a new short play by playwright, AnJu Hyppolite. It tells the story of one family, the healing power of food, and the very special Haitian tradition of making joumou. After the play, the audience was invited to participate in an interactive workshop with the artists.
Dream Club Partnership
From 2016-2020
Sequoia High School's Dream Club students advocate for undocumented students and raise awareness of their educational challenges. Fuse Theatre's Student Internship taught four students to be peer leaders for a series of Devised Performances Pieces around their experiences. The interns also participated in Fuse Theatre's productions.
3 Sparks in the Dark
April 2020
3 Sparks in the Dark featured three one-acts by Hanna Rachel Gerry, Hedvig Flores, and Chelsea Unzner. These were a part of the Bay Area Women's Theatre Festival 2020.
Gender Shorts Festival
June 2019
The Redwood City Play Festival, themed “Gender Shorts,” explored sexism and power through the work of local artists. The three plays were: “Because I Went There,” “Never Swim Alone,” and “Legal-Tender Loving Care.”
Echoes of Them
November 2019
Fuse Theatre and NewGround Theatre Dance Company co-created a re-imagined production of Chelsea’s Unzner’s play Echoes of Them. Echoes explores grief and bereavement through the eyes of five characters struggling to come to terms with the loss of a loved one.
Lily's Wings (Las Alas de Lily)
May 2018 and 2019
Lily's Wings is a bilingual (Spanish/English) production which follows the story of Lily, a middle school student, and her older sister's friend as they are targeted by a "boyfriend" trafficker. Lily's Wings brings awareness to the issue of trafficking and one way that youth are targeted. While the subject area is serious, the play is approriate for youth and toured with Fuse Theatre to young audiences in 2018 and 2019 in order to promote awareness of this critical issue.
Cinderella Eats Rice and Beans
February 2017
What will happen to Cinderella at the ball … game? That's the surprising climactic question in this contemporary Latin-American Cinderella musical, which delightfully turns the classic fairy tale on its head, telling the story from both Cinderella and the "stepsister's" perspective. This play was toured with Fuse Theatre's Connect and Play Program.
Tomás and the Library Lady
February 2016
Fuse Theatre was proud to present Jose Cruz Gonzalez’s play adaption of Pat Mora's children's book "Tomás and the Library Lady." This bilingual play is the boyhood story of Tomás Rivera and how he befriended a librarian in Iowa who encouraged him to read. The play includes a cast of three with puppets and projections that create a magical journey of discovery. This play was toured with Fuse Theatre's Connect and Play Program.
The Docktown Project
October 2016
This was a community-based theatre project working with "Docktown," a group living on the water who were in danger of losing their homes on the dock. Fuse Ensemble members, including playwright Lane Pianta, uncovered the stories of the community and the issues surrounding their eminent eviction through a series of story circle workshops.