Riverside Community Players

Always a Bridesmaid
by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten

Sep 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 23, 24 - 8PM
Sep 11, 18, 24, 25 - 2PM
Tickets are $16

Four friends have sworn to keep the promise they made on the night of their Senior Prom to be in each other's weddings... no matter what. More than 30 years later, these Southern friends-for-life are still making "the long walk" for each other, dedicated to honoring that vow. A tale of loyal and determined women who definitely answer the question, "Just how far are you willing to go to keep a promise to a friend?"

Auditions Jul 18 & 19, 2016 - 7PM

The Lion in Winter
by James Goldman

Nov 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 25, 26 - 8PM
Nov 13, 20, 26, 27 - 2PM
Tickets are $16

Christmas, 1183, and Elanor of Aquitaine is arriving at a castle in Chinon, France, her husband's castle, King Henry II of England. Henry has released her from prison to attend a family gathering with their three sons, Richard, Geoffrey, and John. The main topic of discussion - who will be Henry's successor to the throne. The stakes are high, the choice hotly ocntested and gamesmanship abounds, even to include the King of France.

Auditions Sep 12 & 13, 2016 - 7PM

Proof
A Pulitzer Prize Winning Play
by David Auburn

Jan 27, 28, Feb 2, 3, 4, 10, 11 - 8PM
Jan 29, Feb 5, 11, 12 - 2PM
Tickets are $16

On the eve of her 25th birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, shares a glass of champagne with her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematcian. But in the light of day she must deal with her own volatile emotions, the arrival of her estranged sister and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to help her sort through her father's 103 notebooks to find his valuable work amongst his delusional scribbling. 
Mature Language

Audtions Nov 14 & 15, 2016 - 7PM

Appointment With Death
by Agathe Christie

Mar 31, Apr 1, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15 - 8PM
Apr 2, 9, 15, 16 - 2PM
Tickets: $16

An assorted group of travelers is staying at a Jerusalem hotel. Included are a young English doctor and her French colleague, a debonair American and a pugnacious Lancashireman. Also among them is Mrs. Boynton, who is a domineering American invalid with four stepchildren; each of them with a facade of devotion that masks  enough hatred to willingly murder her. Her stepchildren are not the only ones, however.

Auditions Jan 30 & 31, 2017 - 7PM

Adapted by Patrick Barlow
From the book by John Buchan
And the Alfred Hitchcock movie
From an original concept by: Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon

Jul 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 21, 22 - 8PM
Jul 9, 16, 22, 23 - 2PM
Tickets: $16

A man with a boring life meets a woman with an intriguing accent who says she is a spy. He agrees to take her to his home, where she is then murdered. Soon a mysterious organization called "The 39 Steps" is hot on the man's trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale. A fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theater, zany characters and even some good old-fashioned romance.

Auditions May 22 & 23, 2017 - 7PM

Deathtrap
A thriller in two acts
by Ira Levin

May 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, Jun 2, 3 - 8PM
May 21, 28, Jun 3, 4 - 2PM
Tickets are $16

Sydney Bruhl, a once successful Broadway thriller writer, is on the skids. When he receives a perfect example of a thriller play from Clifford Anderson, an inexperienced writer who attended one of Sydney's seminars, his envy is overwhelming. Becoming obsessed with a sinister idea, he invites Clifford to his home with an offer to provide suggestions on improving the play. And the many unexpected turns and twists of events begin.

Auditions Apr 3 & 4, 2017 - 7PM

Charlotte's Web
by E.B. White
Adapted by Joseph Robinette

Oct 7, 8 - 7PM
Oct 8, 9 - 2PM
Tickets are $9

The extraordinary spider, Charlotte, is determined to save her friend Wilbur, an irresistible young pig, from the buther. She starts with the "miracle" of her web in which she writes "Some Pig". It is the beginning of a victorious campaign which ultimately ends with the now-safe Wilbur doing what is most important to Charlotte. A beautiful knowing play about friendship from the book considered to be the best American children's book of the past 200 years.

Auditions Jul 25 & 26, 2016 - 7PM

A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens

Dec 9, 10, 16, 17 - 7PM
Dec 10, 11, 17, 18 - 2PM
Tickets are $10

It is Christmas Eve, but the mean and miserly Ebenezer Scrooge celebrates no holidays. Walking home through heavy fog to the large empty building where he lives alone, he is unaware that alone is not what he will be this night. Starting at the front door where he encounters the face of his dead partner, Jacob Marley, Scrooge will soon learn that his transforming night of ghostly visitors has just begun.

Auditions Sep 19 & 20, 2016 - 7PM