{"id":427374,"date":"2026-08-08T13:48:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427374\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:48:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:48:25","slug":"a-directorial-debut-with-bakersfield-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427374\/","title":{"rendered":"A directorial debut with Bakersfield roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Ovation Theatre has become known for bringing Broadway-caliber productions to Bakersfield, and it continues to grow with the addition of The Underground, its new black box theatre.<\/p>\n<p>The Underground is a smaller, more intimate setting with just 40 seats, but it carries the same impact as Ovation\u2019s larger productions. And this weekend, The Underground welcomes\u00a0The Grown-Ups\u00a0\u2014 a dark comedy about camp counselors trying to hold it together while the world outside their cabin walls begins to unravel.<\/p>\n<p>In her directorial debut, Savannah May sat down with Celeste Diaz Schurman to talk about bringing this unconventional story to the stage, what audiences can expect from\u00a0The Grown-Ups, and why The Underground offers a completely different theatre experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For years, Ovation Theatre has become known for bringing Broadway-caliber productions to Bakersfield, and it continues to grow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-427374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}