Curtain 5 Theatre Group

03/31/2026

I am Gerald Palladino, a member of the Cultural Arts Rotary Club of Fresno, C… Gerald Palladino needs your support for Help Eradicate Polio with Fresno Rotary

07/31/2019

The district will hold immunization clinics to prepare students for the start of the school on
August 5-9 and August. 12-16, 2019 from 8:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m. at Tioga Middle School Room 36.
Students with Medi-Cal or who are uninsured should:

 Be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian
 Bring their current immunization record
 Bring their Medi-Cal card if they are covered by Medi-Cal insurance
Students with private insurance should call their healthcare provider for immunizations.
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10/13/2018

Open the photo. More to come shortly from CURTAIN 5 TheatreGROUP. You won't want to miss this extraordinary theater presentation. Last year's HOLD THIS STONE was sold out. This year, it's an even more rewarding personal experience from the Yonsei Memory Project, Nikiko Masumoto, Brynn Saito, Storytelling Fellows and special guest appearances by nited author and valley farmer, Mas Masumoto, Poet Laureate, Lee Herrick, and others
to be announced.

11/05/2017

Advance tickets are selling very fast for HOLD THIS STONE, which opens for its Fresno premiere on Thursday, November 9 at Fresno Soap Co. This moving evening and remembrance of the Japanese Americans incarcerated in U.S. camps during WWII is an original work written and performed by two extraordinary local talents from Fresno: agrarian artist and author, Nikiko Masumoto, and award winning poet and educator,, Brynn Saito, who are both fourth generation Japanese Americans

This heartfelt work of performance art is an outgrowth of the Yonsei (fourth generation) Memory Project, led by our writer-performers. Their 90-minute evening of poetry, dialogue and performance art will celebrate the strength and endurance of the human spirit.

CURTAIN 5 TheatreGROUP is proud to present the Fresno premiere of HOLD THIS STONE. Your ticket purchase is a tax deductible contribution to the Yonsei Memory Project and its fiscal sponsor, the Fresno Arts Council.

Do yourself a big favor and be part of an extraordinary evening of theater in the intimate setting that brings you an arms length away from what's transpiring on stage..

06/25/2016

The last two performances of the award-winning family drama, SOMEBODY'S CHILDREN by Jose Casas, play today at Fresno Soap Co Stage, 1470 N. Van Ness Ave. just South of Fresno City College. The Shine! Theatre production is directed by Artistic Director Tony Sanders. A cast of five extraordinary young actors from Roosevelt School of the Arts and McLane High School have been getting standing ovations from audiences during the opening weekend and at from last night's capacity crowd. These teenagers tell a heartbreaking story of the homeless families living in the shadow of the Happiest Place on Earth, behind Disneyland in Anaheim, California, where its a daily struggle with drugs, prostitution, gang violence and the shame of being poor and homeless. Their stories are told, but their dreams persist, and HOPE reigns in their hearts that someday they can have peace and happiness again with their families. City officials have done nothing over the years to help the plight of these unfortunate families. Your ticket purchase will help feed these families and provide you with a theater experience you will not soon forget. Advance tickets are available from brownpapertickets.com or at the theater box office for today's matinee at 2pm and the final performance at 7pm. Don't miss this memorable drama from Shine! Theatre, who in 2010 were cited as America's finest youth theater by the U.S. Congress, and Shine! Theatre's home is right here in Fresno. CURTAIN 5 TheatreGROUP is honored to sponsor this event which was also underwritten by a genrrous grant from the Bonner Family Foundation.

03/01/2016

01/25/2016

CURTAIN 5 TheatreGROUP opens its third season at Fresno Soap Co Stage on January 29th with two original plays written by students during the 2015 Roosevelt High School of Performing Arts Playwriting Competition. VUELOS sees an old world dad and his free-thinking new world daughter trying to reconcile differences and finding common ground in a heartwarming original drama. NECROMANCIN' AROUND sees Austin, a clever teenager with conjuriung abilities, creating havoc amongst the ghost of an attorney who's committed su***de, Beelzebub, the demon with an identity crisis, Austin's possessed mother and the hipster priest with an odd way of performing her exorcism, in a chaotic original comedy of manners. Advance tickets available from brownpapertickets.com or at the theater on performancxe days. Special $8 student admission at all performances.

08/28/2015

Production dates for the plays are November 13-14-20-21 and November 14-21 at Fresno Soap Co Stage.

08/28/2015

For those interested, CURTAIN 5 is staging auditions for two original plays by competition winners, Cyrus Kinzel and Samantha Perez, of Roosevelt School of the Arts. Auditions are tomorrow 11am-1pm at Fresnio Soap Co Stage, 1470 North Van Ness Avenue in the Tower. Nine roles from teens to age 40+ available. Bring a short monologue. We will read from the scripts too. Tony Sanders and Jerry Palladino will each direct a play. Hope to see you there.

11/22/2014

Good crowd.