Ferndale Repertory Theatre
The Oldest Community Theater on the Northcoast
Ferndale Repertory Theater is the oldest community theater on the beautiful northwest coast of California! Our season runs from October through the summer, presenting comedies, dramas and musicals with an enchanting holiday piece for the whole family.
With a deliberately popular format including comedies, musicals, mysteries, holiday spectacles, fine dramas, and the occasional classic, Ferndale Repertory Theater has produced many wonderful successes.
SEASON SCHEDULE
MAN OF LA MANCHA • April 1 - 25
A musical inspired by Miguel de Cervantes’ seventeenth-century masterpiece, it tells the story of the“mad” knight, Don Quixote, as a play within a play, performed by Cervantes and his fellow prisoners as he awaits a hearing with the Spanish Inquisition. Best known for the song The Impossible Dream. 8pm April 1*, 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24 & 2pm April 4+, 11, 18, 25.
BEYOND THE FRINGE (Teen Show) • April 30 - May 2
A zany collection of Monty Python-esque skits, our young men and women will have the opportunity to perform a myriad of characters in a plethora of hilarious situations. April 30, May 1 & 2pm May 2
SAME TIME NEXT YEAR • May 27 - June 13
After a one-night stand, happily married (but not to one another) George and Doris decide to meet
again the next year, and soon they are as committed to their annual weekend as they are to their own spouses and families. This romantic comedy covers the growth of their friendship and love over the course of a 25-year relationship, and the inevitable changes in their lives and the world around them. 8pm May 27*, 28, 29, June 4, 5, 11, 12 & 2pm May 30+, June 6, 13.
RENT • August 5 - 29
Taken from Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème, RENT tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side in
the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of AIDS. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and 1996 Tony Award for best Musical. Come experience the North coast premiere.
8pm Aug 5*, 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, 28 & 2pm Aug 8+, 15, 22, 29.
* = Preview/Actors Benefit Night
+ = Senior Bus, Redway & Eureka
The lobby of the Ferndale Theatre is also home to the Art From The Hart Gallery with rotating exhibits by local artists.
World audiences have visited Ferndale Repertory Theatre - aside from celebrities who have enjoyed an evening of live theatre such as James Whitmore, Raymond Burr, Robert Foxworth, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dustin Horffman, Davide Odgen Stiers, and Rene Auberjonois, the building itself has been seen in a number of Hollywood productions filmed on location in picturesque Ferndale. "A Death in Canaan", "Salem's Lot" by Stephen King and the network sitcom "Hyperion Bay" have all had some exteriors shot here along with many commercials. The multimillion dollar epic "Outbreak" with Dustin Hoffman and Rene Russo was filmed in Ferndale in 1994; the theatre made its screen debut playing the role of the State Theatre of Cedar Creek, the point of first public contact with the killer virus in the story. Warner Brothers generously donated a completely rebuilt Victorian style marquee for the front of the theatre, a welcome note of renewal after many years of peeling paint. Most recently, the theatre played a down and out sporting goods store in the movie, "The Majestic".
Rental
With seating for 265, the Ferndale Repertory Theatre is a great venue for large meetings, recitals and other community events. We love to see the theatre used, and therefore make the facility available at low rates whenever our production schedule permits.
Directions: Located on Main Street in Ferndale.