The 175-acre Montalvo Arts Center, which houses an art gallery, artist residences, park, hiking trails and the historic Mediterranean Villa Montalvo mansion, hosts yearly indoor and outdoor events, including the annual Play on the Grounds, where actors perform stripped-down readings of plays. This weekend, Katie O’Bryon Champlin directs a double-bill featuring David Lee White’s dark comedy, Backfire, in which a couple reconnects at their 30-year high school reunion, and Stephen Sachs’ excellent comedy-drama, Bakersfield Mist, about an ex-bartender living in a trailer park who insists she owns an original Jackson Pollock painting, though a New York art dealer says it’s a fake. Performances go until Aug 22.
Wed, Aug 20, 6pm; $30
Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga
