Season Set for Pasadena Playhouse, Lobero

“Oil City Symphony” and comedies by Preston Sturges and “6 Rms Riv Vu” writer Bob Randall will make up the summer-fall season at the Pasadena Playhouse and its new sibling, the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara.

Sturges’ “A Cup of Coffee,” which he later adapted into the 1940 movie “Christmas in July,” is slated for a July 19-Aug. 23 run at the Playhouse, followed by a Sept. 24-Oct. 11 stint at the Lobero.

Randall’s “David’s Mother” will play in Pasadena Sept. 20-Oct. 25 and at the Lobero Nov. 19-Dec. 6. It premiered last fall at the Cleveland (Ohio) Play House, staged by Josephine Abady, who is expected to repeat her work here.

Randall wrote “The Magic Show” and was a producer on the CBS sitcom “Kate & Allie.”

“Oil City Symphony” is a tongue-in-cheek musical from the creators of “Pump Boys and Dinettes,” with a few similarities to last year’s Pasadena hit “Forever Plaid.”

The original off-Broadway cast will perform it, Nov. 15-Dec. 20 in Pasadena and Jan. 28-Feb. 14, 1993, in Santa Barbara. “Oil City” was derailed from a production at the Los Angeles Theatre Center last fall when the LATC company collapsed.