Category: Press Releases

Napa Theater Group, Valley Players, Finds a Home at Lincoln Theater Exciting news just announced for Valley Players, who have entered into a partnership with The Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater. (more…)

Valley Players to Present Staged Reading to Benefit Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America On April 22, Valley Players and the Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater will proudly present a staged reading of Lauren Gunderson’s new play Natural Shocks as part of a national campaign of theater activism against gun violence. NAPA, CA, APRIL 4, 2018 – Coinciding with the weekend of the National School Walkout, this funny and devastating one-woman play is part of a nation-wide theatre activism campaign against gun violence. Nearly eighty theatres across the country will host readings, and donations for this electric performance by Valley Players' own June Alane Reif will go to Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. (more…)

Valley Players bring Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike to Napa Valley Valley Players and the Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater present the 2013 Tony Award winning Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang for three performances on February 1, 2 and 3 at 7pm at the Lincoln Theater in Yountville. NAPA, CA, JANUARY 16, 2018 - The troupe then takes their show to the Mira Theatre in Vallejo for performances on February 9 and 10 at 7pm and February 11 at 2pm. Chekhov is alive and well in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where adult siblings Vanya and Sonia reside in their old family home, mourning their lost dreams and missed opportunities. When their often-wrong but sometimes right, fortune-telling maid warns of impending dangers,…

Valley Players returns to Vallejo with The Lover The Napa Register called this production “bright, daring” and the performances “superbly ironic” and “elegantly smooth.” VALLEJO, CA, August 2, 2017 – Valley Players reprises its production of The Lover by renowned playwright Harold Pinter at Bay Area Stage Theater, September 1-17. Valley Players chose this small cast, one-act play with minimal set requirements for their very first production last January at the Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater in Yountville, where it ran for three performances. Later, director Debbie Baumann noted that a lot of work went in to that three-day run and it “left us wanting to perform it again! These actors are some of the best in the valley and deserve another chance to perform this intriguing…

Valley Players Return to the stage with Anton in Show Business Valley Players and the Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater present Anton In Show Business by Jane Martin for three performances only on May 9, 10 and 11 at 7pm at the Lincoln Theater in Yountville. NAPA, CA, April 13, 2017 - Valley Players will then ‘take the show on the road’ to Bay Area Stage in Vallejo for performances on May 13 at 8pm and May 14th at 2pm. Winner of the 2001 American Theatre Critics Steinberg New Play Award, this madcap comedy follows three actresses across the footlights, down the rabbit hole and into a strangely familiar Wonderland that looks a lot like American theatre! As these women pursue their dream of performing Chekhov in…

Live Theater at the Lincoln — Valley Players Takes the Stage Valley Players presents The Lover by Harold Pinter at the Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, January 3 - 5 at 7pm. NAPA, CA, December 27, 2016 - Valley Players, a new local theater troupe, is set to open their first production, The Lover, a play by renowned playwright Harold Pinter at the Lincoln Theater on January 3. The Lover is a quirky, tense, intriguing play by Harold Pinter that examines the private intricacies of modern marriage. To all outward appearances, Sarah and Richard are a respectable, conventional suburban couple. Behind closed doors, however, the couple enjoys a surprising and intriguing arrangement… Like any of Pinter’s works, this one-act contains the laughs, tears, and tensions that arise…