“Out in Reedley, the River City Theatre Company filled the Opera House with the music of Irving Berlin with a lively production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, complete with snow blowing over the audience. In Fresno’s venerable Warnor’s Theater, the Chanticleer Shakespeare Co. brought Richard III, their first production as a professional theatre troupe, blending local talent with professionals.
2025 is gone, but, for The Great Food Search, the memories remain of good food, good places, and good people. Here are a few of the restaurants that came to the top during our visits last year. You might like to try some of them.
“Spoonful of Sugar,” “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” “Chim-Chim Cheree,” “Step in Time,” “Feed the Birds,” “Let’s Go Fly a Kite.”
Sounds like the world’s favorite fictional nanny has landed in the Valley. Disney & Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins is now playing at Roger Rocka’s Dinner Theater in a Good Company Players production through March 22.
Where there is Sherlock Holmes, there must be Dr. Watson, and they are onstage in the Good Company Players 2nd Space production of Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Elusive Ear through February 22.
It’s that season of holidays—Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, and what have you. Besides celebrating with nonstop Hallmark holiday movies, it is a time for eating, and The Great Food Search does a little globetrotting to share some places to find a few festive foods in the Valley.
What if William Shakespeare was a bad guy? Conceited, conniving—something rotten? That’s what happens in Something Rotten, the Karey Kirkpatrick/Wayne Kirkpatrick/John O’Farrell 2015 musical, now playing as a Good Company Players production at Roger Rocka’s Dinner Theater through January 18.
It’s Autumn. November, to be specific. The green leaves of the Valley are finally turning to the colors of Fall. The Great Food search explored pumpkin treats last November, so this month’s travels feature apples. And so, welcome to . . . The Apples of Fall.
TEN TIMES—Ten times the Good Company Players have staged various productions of A Christmas Carol at the 2nd Space Theatre. They’re at it again, and it’s a Christmas miracle.
The 2023 adaptation of the 1843 Charles Dickens novella surprised audiences when they realized that the story was being told by two homeless characters.
October is a time when all the spooky comes out—decorations, costumes, and movies. I have compiled a small list of some of my favorite spooky. They may be thought of as horror movies, but they aren’t blood-and-guts fests. These are films I have seen, which leaves out some popular films like Monster Squad and Hocus Pocus. Most of these are pretty old, and not too violent. (I have a problem with slasher-monster-jump scare films.)
“I Could Have Danced All Night,” “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?” “With a Little Bit of Luck,” “On the Street Where You Live,” “Get Me To the Church On Time,” “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face,” “The Rain In Spain,” and more. All classic songs from My Fair Lady, the Lerner-Loewe musical that the Good Company Players have staged for the sixth time at Roger Rocka’s Dinner Theater, running through November 16. Did GCP do a good job of honoring the legacy of this workhorse of the musical theatre? GCP—You Did It!
