Luna Gale

When you snooze, you sometimes lose, but you sometimes get a mouthful of Skittles.

When you snooze, you sometimes lose, but you sometimes get a mouthful of Skittles.

Photo courtesy Capital Stage

$28-$40, previews 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday; opens Saturday; regular performances 7 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturdays , 2 p.m. Sundays; $17.50-$45. Capital Stage, 2215 J Street; (916) 995-5464; www.capstage.org. Through November 19.

Capital Stage opens Luna Gale, a drama about a passionate social worker fighting to save a child from a dangerous home situation. But what initially seems like a clear-cut case turns into a tangle of family secrets and hidden motives, with each member of the household offering a different idea about what’s best for the child.