Bringing you the best local talent, The Bridge Cabaret – PLUS! features traditional cabaret performances with a couple of play and musical theatre readings thrown into our calendar to keep you on your toes!

April play reading: The Joy of Theatre by Germaine Shames

Synopsis: Four thespians, longtime friends, test the bounds of artistic expression under the watchful eye of an autocratic regime. When they stage a controversial play, the consequences exceed their worst nightmare. This is a darkly comedic sociopolitical fable about the fragility of creative freedom and what one seemingly powerless band of misfits willingly risks in its service.

Playwright Shames shares, “I wrote this play because democracy needs theatre as much as theatre needs democracy.”

**This program is made possible, fully or in part, by a grant from
Scottsdale Arts with funding provided by the City of Scottsdale. The Bridge Initiative projects this season are supported in part by a CCG grant for general operations from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, which receives support from the State of Arizona and the National Endowment for the Arts.**

Learn more about The Bridge Initiative at bridgeinit.org