Get ready for our Page 2 Stage for Stop Kiss!

Thank you for your interest in Page to Stage.
Page to Stage is a book club for scripts and plays!

How to participate:

Read the script, watch the play, and join our group discussion!  Following the performance at Prospect Theater Project, we’ll be meeting in the Artist Lab.

LOCATION: 1218 K Street Modesto, CA

TIME: In the second week of performances, after the Sunday matinee

Prospect Theater Project Page to Stage Season 2025-26

William Shakespeare, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Sept 28

Stephen Deitz, Rancho Mirage, November 23

John Logan, Red, January 25

Diana Son, Stop Kiss, March 29

Noel Coward, Present Laughter, June 21

3rd Annual One Act Festival, August TBD

Don’t forget to pick up your copy of this season’s plays at Bookish, to read before the Sunday matinees – Love’s Labor’s Lost is on their shelves now! 

• ADDRESS: 811 W. Roseburg Ave, Modesto
• PHONE: (209) 408-8067
• EMAIL: bookish@bookishmodesto.com 
• WEBSITE: https://www.bookishmodesto.com/

Questions? Email info@prospecttheaterproject.org

Welcome back Script-reading enthusiasts!

As I write this note to you all, we have just endured the annual time shift known as Daylight Savings Time. Somehow, it seems appropriate as this familiar forward and back motion in time feels reflective of the progress and setbacks experienced in every aspect of our fight for Civil Rights. In relation to Stop Kiss, the play that opens at PTP on March 20, I am, of course, talking about LGBTQ+ rights–or as it was called back in 1998 when this play was first performed, gay rights.

The play centers on Callie, a traffic reporter who’s lived in New York for more than a decade, and Sarah, a Midwesterner who has just moved to the city for a teaching fellowship. The mismatched pair strike up an unlikely friendship that starts developing into something more–until a sudden, violent act of intolerance shatters everything. This provocative, moving play is as captivating today as it was when it premiered in 1998 with Jessica Hecht and Sandra Oh in the leading roles.

Our version, in the able hands of Director Traci Sprague, features Molly Souza as Callie and Lorelei Starling Sprague as Sara. Alexander Alaniz takes on the role of George, Callie’s boyfriend of sorts, while Kyle Holman plays Peter, Sara’s fella from back home. And this time we have TWO of our Page to Stage leaders literally putting those pages on the stage: Scott Davis as Detective Cole and Linda Scheller in the dual role of Nurse and Mrs. Winsley.

We will give you some extra-credit reading and things to think about in our next email, but if you’re like me, you’ll be glad to have read this one early. Even on Broadway it was considered quite the production and acting feat to pull off the dual-timestream narrative of this beautiful work. I can’t wait to see how Traci and the team make it happen.

We are so thrilled Bookish has agreed to supply our scripts this year. I’ve already picked up my copy of Stop Kiss there–and you should, too!

You can find Bookish at
811 W. Roseburg Ave, Modesto
209-408-8067
bookish@bookishmodesto.com

Now that you have your script, don’t forget to buy your tickets! The play runs March 20, 21, 27, 28, 29, and April 3, 4, 5. The Page 2 Stage Discussion is Sunday, March 29, right after the matinee. And what is sure to be a fascinating Talkback with the Cast and Director is Sunday, April 5, after the final performance.

Meanwhile, let us know if you have any questions, and we’ll look forward to seeing you at the theater!

–Shannon (and Scott & Linda who are hard at work rehearsing!)