Petaluma Readers Theatre

11/11/2025

A NEW CHRISTMAS SHOW THIS YEAR!
Written by two local authors: and

Before "A Christmas Carol", there was a Christmas dinner.

Christmas Eve 1841. As Charles Dickens gathers inspiration for A Christmas Carol, his wife Kate grapples with an elaborate dinner menu, an ever-expanding guest list, and Charles's troublemaking father--all while secretly writing a cookbook. When Charles fails to appreciate Kate's holiday labor, she goes on strike, leaving her clueless husband to face holiday chaos without her.

DEC 19 and 20 @ 7pm, DEC 21 @ 2pm
Mercury Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N.
Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6723995

12/07/2023

Very nice article about our Christmas show!

Annual Christmas show presents indelible world by Truman Capote and Dylan Thomas, live on stage.

07/25/2023

Petaluma Readers Theatre presents a true American Classic. "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder, presented Readers Theatre style! Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written", it presents the fictional American town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens. It is an essential play about how we must embrace and appreciate the value of life itself.

This is an Equity-approved project.

August 17 & 18 at 7pm

August 19 at 2pm

Polly Klaas Community Theater
417 Western Avenue
Petaluma

Tickets: https://www.pollyklaastheater.org/event/petaluma-readers-theatre-presents-our-town/

05/09/2023

Come hear stories again! From classics to current local authors, FREE! with Arts Alive. We're back!!

Arts Alive Featuring Short Stories Read By Petaluma Readers Theater at the Polly Klaas Theater - FREE to the Public!

Petaluma Readers Theater presents a collection of short stories, read by our performers:

Marlene Augustine
Judith Abbott
Carol Barlas
Terry Kolkey
Jennifer March
Linda Loveland Reid
Maureen Studer

May 18th:
One 50-Minute reading at 6:00 PM
One 50-Minute reading at 7:15 PM

417 Western Avenue
Petaluma, CA 94952
www.PollyKlaasTheater.org
https://www.facebook.com/PollyKlaasCommunityTheater/photos

04/28/2022

PRT was busy during the pandemic. We filmed a show! And today, in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, we'd like to send this out into the ethernet. "Women's Work" is a collection of 5 monologues written from the perspective of women around the world who, unknowingly and knowingly, were involved with the Hollerith Machine (https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hollerith-machine) which facilitated the N**i war machine. Inspired by "IBM and the Holocaust" by Edwin Black. View it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/ejbDa_E5c4M

07/18/2021

Filming our next show TBA! Stay tuned.

12/01/2020

This Petaluma tradition goes online! Of course, we can't do our show for you this year, so we're putting it out on the web. A few years back we recorded the Capote show. So if you miss hearing this heartwarming story this year, you can listen online. Because, you know, "it's fruitcake weather!" ENJOY! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWAUIX4GHTc

09/26/2020

In Covid Times, PRT has gone virtual! This show, "19th, The Journey to Ratification", has been done in conjunction with the Petaluma Historical Library and Museum, celebrating 100 years of Women Votes. We were to perform the show surrounded by the amazing Suffrage Exhibit at the museum, and surrounded by YOU! Well... we got half of it anyway... We filmed it among the exhibits! We present key figures giving key speeches that influenced - or denounced - the Women's Suffrage movement over 72 years. We hope it will inspire a desire to VOTE in the coming election. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/fk4zcCxwvw0

09/11/2019

From Under Milk Wood:
"...her lover, tall as the town clock tower, Samsonsyrup-gold-maned, whacking thighed and piping hot, thunderbolt-bass'd and barnacle breasted, flailing up the cockles with his eyes like blowlamps and scooping low over her lonely lovely hotwaterbottled body."

You don't want to miss this!

Petaluma Readers Theater presents Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas

08/21/2019

Coming in September!