Written by Katherine DiSavino

Directed by Jonessa Brittan

Bridget and her grandmother are about to become roommates.  However, what Bridget saw as a unique opportunity to stay with her favorite Nana in New York City for the summer quickly turned into an experience she’ll never forget.  It seems her sweet Grandma is running an illegal boutique from her apartment, selling hand-made naughty kickers to every senior in the five borough area!  Will Bridget be able to handle all the excitement?  Will Nana get arrested-or worse-evicted?

Cast of NANA’S NAUGHTY KNICKERS

Marilyn Robrahn, Jennifer Levens, Malorie Wilson,

Christopher Glavan, Danny Lindberg,

 Heather Wilson, Donna Stobie, and John Welsh

Directed by Elizabeth Johnson

Synopsis: Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice.

 Play will run July 14th- August 11th

Parts

1 Girl age 8-13, young woman 15-25,
2 boys 8-18, 7 men and 3 women all ages.
Black actors needed:
1 woman, 2 men, all ages.
Children and adult all scenes- nonspeaking roles also available.
Southern accents required

Warning: Mature themes, offensive language
Contact: elizabeth555johnson@gmail.com, call/text 515-1678

2012 Logan’s Voucher

Written by Ken Ludwig

Directed by Jennifer Levens

 Synopsis

Winner of 3 Tony Awards and 4 Drama Desk Awards, Lend Me A Tenor is set in September 1934. Saunders, the general manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, is primed to welcome world famous, Tito Morelli, Il Stupendo, the greatest tenor of his generation, to appear for one night only as Otello. The star arrives late and, through a hilarious series of mishaps, is given a double dose of tranquilizers and passes out. His pulse is so low that Saunders and his assistant Max believe he’s dead. In a frantic attempt to salvage the evening, Saunders persuades Max to get into Morelli’s Otello costume and fool the audience into thinking he’s Il Stupendo. Max succeeds admirably, but Morelli comes to and gets into his other costume ready to perform. Now two Otellos are running around in costume and two women are running around in lingerie, each thinking she is with Il Stupendo. A sensation on Broadway and in London’s West End, this madcap, screwball comedy is guaranteed to leave audiences teary-eyed with laughter.

KEN LUDWIG is an internationally acclaimed playwright whose many hits on Broadway, in London’s West End and throughout the world have made his name synonymous with modem comedy. He has won the Laurence Olivier Award, England’s highest theatre honor, as well as three Tony Award nominations and two Helen Hayes Awards. His work has been commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and has been performed in at least thirty countries in over twenty languages. His musical Crazy For You ran for over four years on Broadway and in London. Lend Me A Tenor, originally produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber and recently revived on Broadway, was called “one of the two great farces by a living writer” by The New York Times. Other plays and musicals include Moon Over Buffalo (Broadway & London’s Old Vic, starring Carol Burnett, Lynn Redgrave, Joan Collins & Frank Langella); Twentieth Century (premiered at The Signature Theatre; on Broadway, starring Alec Baldwin & Anne Heche); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Broadway); Treasure Island (London, Theatre Royal, Haymarket; 2009 AATE Distinguished Play Award for Best Adaptation); Shakespeare in Hollywood (commissioned by The Royal Shakespeare Company, Helen Hayes Award as Best Play); Leading Ladies; Be My Baby; The Beaux’ Stratagem (adaptation with Thornton Wilder at the request of the Wilder Estate); The Three Musketeers (Bristol Old Vic); An American in Paris; The Fox on the Fairway; The Game ‘s Afoot. He studied music at Harvard with Leonard Bernstein and theatre history at CambridgeUniversity in England. For more information, please visit www.kenludwig.com

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Written by William Inge

Directed by Donna Stobie

Set in the cramped, cluttered Midwestern house of Lola and Doc Delaney, the plot centers on how their life is disrupted by the presence of a boarder named Marie, a college art student with a strong lustful appetite.  Overweight and slovenly, the housebound middle-aged Lola engages in mild flirtations with the milkman and mailman, like the ingratiating coquette she once was. She sees in Marie herself at that age, and encourages her pursuit of wealthy Bruce and muscular Turk.  Doc, who ekes out a living as a chiropractor, was forced to abandon a promising career in medicine when he married a pregnant Lola. She subsequently lost the baby.  As a recovering alcoholic Doc maintains a precarious sobriety by avoiding the past. For him, Marie represents the youth and opportunity he sacrificed, and his eventual realization that she is not as pure and perfect as he imagined sends him back to the bottle and a slow descent into unbridled rage.  The title refers to Lola’s missing dog, who remains lost at the play’s end.

Cast:

Doc-Wade Riggs
Lola-Danna Swanenberg
Marie-Chelsea Bailey
Turk-.Ian C. Dalziel
Postman-Jet Thomas
Mrs. Coffman-Marilyn Robrahn
Bruce-Dan Beckman
Milkman-Daniel Linberg
Ed Anderson-Haref Topete

Act One, Scene Two: Coming in February

San Francisco’s Un-Scripted Theater Company is teaming up with Riverfront Playhouse to bring a unique theatrical experience to Redding’s theater community!

The Un-Scripted Theater Company creates smart, innovative, and entertaining improvised theater that delights audiences and advances the art and craft of improvisation. Founded in late 2002; now in our ninth season, they have created and performed improvised productions from game shows and short form theater to full-length plays and musicals.  They were voted “Best Theater Company” in the San Francisco Bay Guardian 2008 “Best of the Bay” poll.

Here’s how it works:  Actors do a cold “staged” reading of act one, scene one of the play, which was written for them by local Redding playwright. When the players finish the scripted portion, the actors continue on to finish the play — now un-scripted — starting from act one, scene two.

     A special thank you to the Shasta Regional Community Fund for providing us with the grant to sponsor Un-Scripted Theater Company’s  performances at Riverfront Playhouse.

Featured Playwrights:

Friday, 2/24 @ 7:30 PM (Capital Campaign Event): Kenny Kelly
Saturday, 2/25 @ 2:00 PM (Special Members Only Event): Ken Levens
Saturday, 2/25 @ 7:30 PM: Chelsea Van Dixon