‘Sarah’ to Relight LATC : Stage: The play is the first engagement scheduled under the city’s new ‘caretaker’ plan.

The first show to relight any part of Los Angeles Theatre Center for more than a one-night run (since the resident company collapsed last month) has been announced.

“Sarah’s Story: Tripping on the Belly of the Beast” will open on Dec. 2 in the smallest theater within the municipal complex, 99-seat Theatre 4. It’s slated to stay for at least eight weeks.

Even before the LATC company folded, “Sarah’s Story” and two other shows had been booked into Theatre 4, under terms of an earlier plan to open up 30% of the stage time for outside productions.

But “Sarah’s Story” is the first show scheduled under the city’s new “caretaker” plan for the building, under which all shows are booked by the city’s Cultural Affairs Department.

“Sarah’s Story” is a one-woman show, written and performed by Susan Rubin, who developed it under the wing of LATC’s Women’s Artists Group.

That organization and nine other offshoots of the former LATC company have “deluged” the city with proposals for continuing their activities within the building, said Al Nodal, general manager of the Cultural Affairs Department.

There also have been 12 outside proposals to use the theaters during the “caretaker” period, which will end June 30, and 10 proposals to operate or use the facility on a long-term basis after July 1, said Nodal. Some of these have been “pie in the sky,” he noted.

Nodal is trying to develop user fees that would be “friendly” to the LATC labs and other producers, he said, but “it’s like pulling teeth to figure out what the labs need.”

The basic rental fee for “Sarah’s Story” will be $300 for each performance, said Nodal. Other tentative per-performance rental fees planned for the facilities are $1,600 for the Tom Bradley Theatre, $975 for Theatre 2, and $1,000 for Theatre 3. Daily rental rates will probably be $150 for the lobby and $100 for rehearsal rooms, with pro-rated arrangements for shorter periods. Office space will be rent for $10 per square foot per month.

But Nodal added that the fees are “subject to adjustment. . . . We’ll do everything we can to make (the facilities) available. We’re trying to get everything organized by Dec. 1.”