By Neil Simon Directed by Maria Drake Corie and Paul are newlyweds, fresh from their honeymoon. Corie is still enthralled by her recent sexual awakening and the adventure that comes with youth and marriage. She wants their passionate romantic life… Continue Reading
This was our first visit to the Riverfront Playhouse, and we were rewarded with a compelling rendition of Steinbeck’s novel about itinerant farmers fleeing Oklahoma’s Dust Bowl in the 1930s.
Director Samantha Fork intentionally set out to make Steinbeck’s classic relevant to today’s world, a task aided by the author’s Continue Reading
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Do you have a play you would like to see produced at the Riverfront Playhouse? Have you ever wanted to direct a play? Bring your suggestions to the Riverfront Playhouse’s annual pitch meeting, Sat. Feb. 21.
Riverfront Playhouse on Tuesday was given another three years within which to build its downtown home, but the president of the nonprofit community theater company said construction could begin in early 2015. The spring start date is the best-case scenario,… Continue Reading
Five local playwrights, Jonessa Brittan, Dan Beckman, Jim Dowling, Jason Prado and Chad McFarlane, stage readings of their original work. This is a Riverfront Playhouse Capital Campaign event. Tickets available at the door for $10. Show starts at 7:30 PM.… Continue Reading
A cast of four talented actors carry the show and captivate their Redding audiences during their outstanding performances of the Pulitzer-Prize winning, “Doubt, A Parable” – March 15 through April 5 – at the Riverfront Playhouse. In this brilliant and… Continue Reading
“2 Across” opens with an obviously distraught woman, alone, on a BART train at 4:30 in the morning. It closes with two former strangers leaving an East Bay station, united by an interest in crossword puzzles and, possibly, a budding… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
Comedy isn’t easy. And making it look easy takes of great deal of careful preparation. It is, as they say, all in the timing.
Mounting a full-scale musical is a daunting task for any theater and the enormous cost for performance rights and music royalties this type of show demands can hamper a community theater’s ability to do all they envision. Even so, the biggest challenge Riverfront’s … Continue Reading
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