Riverside Community Players, a nonprofit community theater founded in 1925, will celebrate the beginning of its 100th season with an Aug. 31 event at the theater.
The 100th-season celebration, beginning at 7:30 p.m., will include appetizers, beverages, entertainment, a photo booth and remembrances of the theater’s history. Attendees will also receive gifts and a commemorative booklet.
Tickets are $45, available at tinyurl.com/4m6yke9f.
Riverside Community Players began when Janet Scott assembled a group to put on one-act plays at the Riverside Woman’s Club, according to a news release. The group survived the Depression of the 1930s and World War II and in 1953, the Riverside Community Players built its own theater, the building at 4026 14th St. that is still its home.
Riverside Community Players’ 2024-25, which opens Sept. 6, will include five main stage shows, two family shows and two Spotlight Series shows. There will also be outreach performances including a Juneteenth celebration, and the theater will continue its annual Youth Summer Conservatory, according to the news release.
The first play of the season is “On Golden Pond” by Ernest Thompson, opening 8 p.m. Sept. 6 and running weekends through Sept. 22. Ron Milts will direct the play, which tells he story of an aging couple dealing with a strained relationship with their daughter.
Tickets are $20, available at riversidecommunityplayers.com.
Other plays in Riverside Community Players’ 100th season are “Wait Until Dark,” Oct. 25-Nov. 10; “A Christmas Carol,” Dec. 6-15; “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Jan. 31-Feb. 16; “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” April 18-May 4; and “Man of La Mancha,” June 20-July 6.
Riverside Community Players’ theater is at 4026 14th St., Riverside. For information, go to riversidecommunityplayers.com or call 951-369-1200.
