Lucky Penny Productions
"The Little Theatre Company That Could"

Legally Blonde The Musical

Sept 13-29, 2024

Elle Woods appears to have it all. But her life is turned upside down when her boyfriend Warner dumps her so he can attend Harvard Law. Determined to get him back, Elle ingeniously charms her way into the prestigious law school. "Legally Blonde The Musical" is action-packed and exploding with memorable songs and dynamic dances - this musical is so much fun, it should be illegal!

Women in Jeopardy

Oct 18-Nov 3, 2024

Divorcées Mary and Jo are suspicious of their friend Liz’s new dentist boyfriend. He’s not just a weirdo; he may be a serial killer. After all, his hygienist just disappeared. Trading their wine glasses for spy glasses, imaginations run wild as the ladies try to discover the truth and save their friend in a hilarious off-road adventure.

Oliver!

Nov 29-Dec 22, 2024

The streets of Victorian England come to life in Lionel Bart's classic musical "Oliver!" - based on the Charles Dickens novel, Oliver Twist. The Tony and Olivier Award-winning show is one of the few musicals to win an Academy Award for Best Picture and is widely hailed as a true theatrical masterpiece by actors and audience members alike. A great holiday-time experience for the whole family!

Love Letters

Jan 31-Feb 16, 2025

Andrew and Melissa, both born to wealth and position, are childhood friends whose lifelong correspondence begins with birthday party thank-you notes and summer camp postcards. Through schooling, wars, careers, and life changes, they exchange letters and their romantic attachment endures -- physically apart, but spiritually as close as only true lovers can be. "Love Letters" is a unique and imaginative theatre experience.

Reefer Madness

Mar 7-23, 2025

Inspired by the original 1936 film of the same name, "Reefer Madness" is a raucous musical comedy that takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex and violence. This spoofy stylized satire will leave you wanting another hit of fun!

Other Desert Cities

April 18-May 4, 2025

Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas with her parents, her brother, and her aunt. Brooke announces that she is about to publish a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family’s history—a wound they don’t want reopened. When Brooke draws a line in the sand and dares them all to cross it, family secrets take on a whole new meaning.

The Real Housewives of Napa Valley 2025

May 30-June 15, 2025

"The Real Housewives of Napa Valley" is an original parody musical by Rob Broadhurst and Barry Martin that premiered May-June 2024. But one time around the track is not enough for this no-holds-barred romp through for these pretentious wives, their weird husbands, and the long-suffering producers trying to keep their show on the air.

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Get tickets for one show or as many as you like. This page shows our Mainstage Season shows along with special one-night or short run events like comedy shows, concerts, and more. Mainstage Season tickets range from $20-$45 with discounts for Seniors and Students. Pay-What-You-Can performances are offered on Thursday nights.

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  • 1758 Industrial Way, Napa, CA, USA
  • MAILING: 1370 Trancas Street PMB 228, Napa CA 94558
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As Napa Valley’s Premier Theatre Company, Lucky Penny Productions creates, develops and presents professional quality theatre, and fosters educational opportunities for youth and adults in our community. We are 501c3 non-profit organization.

The company was founded by Taylor Bartolucci and Barry Martin in 2009. In 2015, the Lucky Penny Community Arts Center opened. Our Mainstage Season presents seven to 10 fully staged productions each year from September to June, while our Napa Academy of Performing Arts offers training for youth and adults year 'round.

Our Community Arts Center is located at 1758 Industrial Way in Napa. It contains a 99-seat black box theatre, rehearsal room, and technical and storage areas.

ARTISTIC & CASTING DIRECTOR: Taylor Bartolucci
MANAGING DIRECTOR: Barry Martin

BOARD PRESIDENT: Taylor Bartolucci
VICE PRESIDENT: Heather Buck
TREASURER: Barry Martin
SECRETARY: Julie Morales
DIRECTORS: Heather Gonsalves, Linda Homick, James McNair, Mia Malm, Lisa Massaro, Kirstin Pieschke
(As of Sept. 13, 2023)


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Lucky Penny Productions was founded in Napa in 2009. Our first performances took place in the depot of the Napa Valley Wine Train in May of that year. A few months later we began producing shows in the Napa Valley Opera House and at Dreamweavers/Napa Valley Playhouse. Along the way we developed co-productions with 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa and Spreckels Theatre Company in Rohnert Park. In January 2015 we opened the Lucky Penny Community Arts Center as the home for all our productions. 

Our Production History

2023-2024 Season
The Addams Family Musical | The Revolutionists | The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical | Saving Santa | Almost, Maine | The Sound of Music | The Glass Menagerie | The Real Housewives of Napa Valley

2022-2023 Season 
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike | Sweeney Todd | Saving Santa | A Napa Valley Christmas Carol 2022 | Disney's The Descendants | The World Goes 'Round | Silent Sky | The Great American Trailer Park Musical

 2021-2022 Season 
Disney's The Little Mermaid | Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End | A Napa Valley Christmas Carol | The Marvelous Wonderettes | The How and the Why | Bright Star

2020-2021 Season
All live-on-stage shows had to be cancelled/postponed due to pandemic. Five "Video Theatre" productions were filmed in Covid-safe ways at the Lucky Penny Community Arts Center. Several of the 2021-21 shows have been rescheduled in the 2021-22 season.

2019-2020 Season
9 to 5 The Musical | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Miracle on 34th Street | Xanadu Jr. | Five Course Love |
(Remainder of season cancelled/postponed due to Pandemic)

2018-2019 Season
Into the Woods | Blithe Spirit | Scrooge in Love! | The Enchanted Bookshop | Forever Plaid | Bingo, The Winning Musical | Rapture, Blister, Burn | Cabaret

2017-18 Season
Chicago | The Crucible | Annie | 8x10: A Festival of 10 Minute Plays | Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical | Scream Queens | The Miss Firecracker Contest | Hands on a Hardbody

2016-17 Season
Big River | I Wanna Be Bad | The Miracle Worker | The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical | 'Twas the Night Before Christmas | A Little Night Music | Kids Rule the 8 x 10: A Festival of 10 Minute Plays | Maple and Vine | Clue: The Musical

2015-16 Season
The Secret Garden | Gruesome Playground Injuries | Beyond Therapy | The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical | Gidion's Knot | In Love with the 8 x 10 | The Andrews Brothers | I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

2014-15 Season

Oliver | Bonnie & Clyde | 8 x 10 Festival of 10 Minute Plays | Cowgirls | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Yesterday Again

2013-14 Season

Monty Python's Spamalot | An 8 x 10 Holiday: A Festival of 10 Minute Plays | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Becky Shaw

2012-13 Season

I Love You Because | 8 x 10 Festival of 10 Minute Plays | The Great American Trailer Park Musical | Funny Girl | Wonder of the World

2011-12 Season
Snowing at Delphi | A Glass of Cabaret | A Staged Reading of Two New Plays by Barry Martin

2010-11 Season
Private Eyes

2009-10 Season

Baggage | Looking | The Shape of Things | The Love List