Wine and Garden Party

Sunday, August 15, 2004. 2:00 - 5:00PM
The Reed Garden
1158 Eastman Lane, Petaluma

A beautiful garden setting, mesmerizing harpist, light and dazzling refreshments and a tempting array of silent auction items for your delight. More...

Nightclub for a Night

Saturday, August 28, 8:00pm - 1:00pm

(AKA DJ Val Richman of Twist and Shout, Petaluma's Funky Dance Jam)
presents Dance Party and Bingo Night, an evening of fun at Cinnabar Theater for Cinnabar Theater. More...

Cabaret (Musical)

September 10 - October 9, 2004
By Joe Masteroff, John Kander, Fred Ebb
Based on the play by John Van Druten and Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Director: Elly Lichenstein, Music Director: Robert Young, Photo by Jeff Thomas

Laughing Wild

October 22 – November 13, 2004
and Holloween special

By Christopher Durang
Director: Beth Craven
Photo by Jeff Thomas

The Tailor of Gloucester – (Holiday musical) World Premiere!
Based on the story by Beatrix Potter
Book by Marcy Telles
Music by Janis Wilson
Director: Sheri Lee Miller
Music Director: Janis Wilson
December 3 – 18

An O. Henry Christmas – (Holiday drama)
Story by O. Henry
Adapted for the stage by Howard Burman
Director: Nancy Prebilich
December 9 – 19

Cinnabar Choral Ensemble
Saturday, December 11, 2004, 8 p.m.
The Chamber Singers and Women’s Chorus joyously raise their voices in songs of the season spanning several hundred years: Welsh Carol - Spanish Carol - Shakespeare’s Carol - Lullaby Carol - Chinese Carol - French Carol - Gospel Spiritual - How Lovely are the Messengers - Mbiri Kuna Mwari - Sheep May Safely Graze - Hanukkah Holiday - Der Weinachtsbaum - Laetentur Coeli - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas…and more!

Party, Party, Party! It’s New Year’s Eve at Cinnabar!
December 31
Celebrate New Year’s Eve with style in our beautiful historic theater.
Enjoy cabaret style seating for our delightful chamber opera, Something New for the Zoo while indulging in the most sublime sweets and confections and sipping fine wines and champagne! We supply the party favors, the entertainment and the refreshments. You bring the joie de vivre! Our New Year’s Eve parties sell out every year, so get your tickets early! Happy New Year!

Something New For the Zoo (contemporary chamber opera)
(The Pig Opera)
By Lee Hoiby
Nina Shuman, Music Director
Yefim Maizel, Stage Director
Dec 31 and Jan 14, 15, 16, 21 and 22

North Bay Hip Hop Theater Festival

Feb 2, 3, 4 & 5

Conscious Hip-Hop through the Power of Live Theater! Four days of amazing Hip Hop artists including dance, beatboxing, music, spoken word and art forms so new they have yet be named!

Fred Curchack - Golden Buddha Beach
Written and performed by Fred Curchack
February 11, 12 – 18, 19
Fred Curchack returns to the Cinnabar stage for two new works. Fred is the recipient of the gold Medal at the International Festival of Solo Theater, the American Theater Wing Award, Critics’ Awards in L.A., S.F., Dallas and Austin as well as appearing on the Top Ten lists of nearly every major newspaper.

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail – (drama)
By Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee
Director: Nancy Prebilich
March 4 – 13
This inspiring and poignant play takes place during the night the great transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau was imprisoned for an act of civil disobedience in 1846. Thoreau had refused to pay a tax in defiance of the Polk Administration’s involvement in the Mexican War. Believing this undeclared war to be unjust, he was beginning his sojourn into Civil Disobedience. Told in a series of dreamlike sequences that explore and describe his theory of education, his family ties and his strong oppositions to slavery, the play explores Thoreau’s life, ideals and philosophies.       

The Marriage of Figaro - Appreciate!
March 16, 7:00 · Free • Join Nina Shuman & cast members at the Mahoney Library - SRJC Petaluma Campus, to learn all about this timeless masterwork. Mahoney Library, Petaluma Campus (get map). Sponsored by the Friends of the Petaluma Campus. 

The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart and Da Ponte
Based on the play by Beaumarchais
Director: Elly Lichenstein
Music Director: Nina Shuman
March 25 - April 16
The wild and hilarious story of Figaro, personal valet to the powerful Count Almaviva. At the top of the show, we find Figaro joyously engaged to the beautiful and brilliant Susanna. Their romance is, alas, not without complications. As they prepare for their nuptials, we learn that the lascivious Count wishes to have Susanna for his own, much to the distress of not only the virtuous Susanna, but also his long-suffering wife and the hapless Figaro. After ingenious intrigue, identities hidden and discovered, lust and love, Mozart brings us to the satisfying conclusion of this exquisite romp.

Young Rep presents: Ruddigore (comic operetta)
By Gilbert and Sullivan
Directed by: Eileen Morris and Jared Emerson-Johnson
April 29 – May 14
What a parody! This one has it all­: The villain who carries off the maiden, the priggish poor-but-virtuous-heroine, a hero in disguise, the faithful old retainer who dreams of the glory days, one snake in the grass who claims to be following his heart, a wild, mad girl, ghosts bent on enforcing a curse­…no ridiculous stone is left unturned! In this absurd melo-romp, good fun is at hand! Good becomes bad, bad becomes good, and heroes take the easy way out.

You've never seen Gilbert & Sullivan until you've seen Cinnabar Young Rep’s Gilbert & Sullivan!  

Great Petaluma Chili Cookoff
This wildly popular afternoon event will take place rain or shine, and features music and entertainment along with unlimited tasting of chili and salsa.
Sunday, May 1, 2005

Director Elly Lichenstein was honored as "Butter and Eggs" Grand Marshal
Parade honored theater director as grand marshal: Cinnabar's Elly Lichenstein to preside over Butter & Egg Days event with entertainment theme.
May 1, 2005

Spring Choral Concert
Come hear the Cinnabar Chamber Singers and Women’s Chorus joyously raise their voices in songs featuring the poetry of Robert Burns and the music of Dvorak. If you love to be transported by beautiful music, this is for you!
May 7, 2005

Playboy of the Western World

May 27 – June 18

SEXUAL MYTH-STORIES

Performed by Fred Curchack and Laura Jorgensen
Written by Fred Curchack

June 24, 25 & July 1, 2 at 8:00 pm

Outrageous theatrical re-visions of the immortal marital myths of Orpheus and Eurydice, Hades and Persephone, Medea and Jason and Don Juan and his lovers.

An evening of comedy and cheer benefiting Cinnabar Theater!
Saturday, June 25th

Emceed by Petaluma's own Gabriel Sunday, from The Disney Channel's, "Now You See It", and "The Suite Life", The WB's "Jack & Bobby", and soon to be released, the romantic comedy, "My Suicide". Tere Joyce, from Comedy Central's,"Premium Blend" and two seasons on NBC's "Last Comic Standing". Vic Dunlop from the "Tonight Show with Johnny Carson","The Richard Pryor Show", HBO, and Showtime. AND one of LA's top Improvisational Comedy Groups, "Improv Gone Wild".