https://www.dvc.edu/events/it-cant-happen-here
Fri, May 01
|Performing Arts Center, Arena Stage
Ticket Price: $25 General; $20 Faculty/Staff/Senior; $15 Student


Time & Location
May 01, 2026, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Performing Arts Center, Arena Stage, 321 Golf Club Rd, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523, USA
About the Event
A cautionary dark satire about the fragility of democracy and how fascism can take hold even in the land of liberty. IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE follows the ascent of a demagogue who becomes president of the United States by promising to return the country to greatness. Witnessing the new president’s tyranny from the sidelines is a liberal, middle-class newspaper editor from Vermont who trusts the system will fix itself—until he ends up in a prison camp. Sinclair Lewis’ eerily prescient 1935 novel gets a fresh update in this adaptation that examines what brings a citizenry to the point of sacrificing its own freedom and how a courageous few can prevail to overcome the fall.
