Taproot Replaces Sherlock Holmes with Wonderful Life Due to Fire

Taproot Theatre will present a return engagement of It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play as its annual holiday production, to run November 27 – December 30 at the Stage One Theatre at North Seattle Community College. The production replaces the world premiere of John Longenbaugh’s Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol in the theater’s season, following a fire on October 23, which left company without a suitable venue for the production.

Adapted for the stage by Joe Landry and directed by Karen Lund, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play takes Frank Capra’s classic movie and tells it as if it were being delivered as a radio broadcast. The company will feature Grant Goodeve, Mark Lund Jesse Notehelfer, Eric Riedmann, and Candace Vance. The creative team will include Lund, who will serve as as scenic and sound designer, along with Sarah Burch Gordon (costume design) and Jody Briggs (sound design).

The theater now plans to produce the world premiere of Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol next year and will hold two staged readings at Seattle Pacific University’s McKinley Auditorium on December 4 and 5 this year at 8 p.m. Those readings will be free; no reservations are necessary.

For further information, visit www.taproottheatre.org.