Lucky Penny Productions

Our Napa Academy of Performing Arts team has been hard at work getting SUPER HAPPY AWESOME NEWS ready for on demand viewing this weekend. See what fun we can still have despite covid! Learn more at luckypennynapa.com

Our Napa Academy of Performing Arts team worked all weekend (covid safe) on "Super Happy Awesome News!" - it's the next offering from Lucky Penny Video Theatre Oct 23-25.

Oh what a pleasure it was to talk with Phillip Percy Williams on this week's LP Radio Theatre Podcast, and hear a song from his award-winning performance in "Big River." Listen in here https://share.transistor.fm/s/4e41f2e5

Whoa! Our mystery guest turned out to be the great Dani Beem on the Lucky Penny Radio Theatre Podcast this week. Check it out. https://share.transistor.fm/s/656fd11f

This week'e episode of "The Lucky Penny Radio Theatre Podcast" debuts at 4pm today on 1440 KVON. Our Mystery Guest is one of the Bay Area's most talented and most honored stage performers. Tune in on the AM band, listen via kvon.com, or use TuneIn.

Adapting to the realities of 2020, Lucky Penny Productions is offering more video and audio entertainment now through the end of the year. Details and virtual seats for all these shows can be found at www.luckypennynapa.com Recording is now complete for Shining Brightly: A Showcase of Musical Theatre FUTURE Stars, highlighting 21 local young performers age 6-17. This new virtual concert will be edited and made available for Video Theatre viewing on demand September 25-27.... The Napa Academy of Performing Arts (N.A.P.A.) is gearing up for Super Happy Awesome News, a funny and timely musical designed to be rehearsed remotely and recorded in a Covid-safe manner. This creation will debut as a Video Theatre show on demand the weekend of October 23-25. The Play-Demic Festival will follow. New plays by Bay Area authors make up this compilation, with each play speaking to the experience that is 2020. The submission deadline has been extended to September 25th. New dates for this Video Theatre project to be available for viewing are November 13-15. No Place Like Home for the Holidays with Lucky Penny will wrap up the year. This family-friendly show will feature sing-alongs and Holiday fun and will be available on demand December 18-20. In the audio entertainment category, The Lucky Penny Radio Theatre Podcast launched September 11. The weekly show is heard on 1440 KVON-AM on Fridays at 4:00pm, and available as a podcast on Spotify and from the Lucky Penny website. The Lucky Penny Community Arts Center has been shut down since March 12. The return to live in-person performance may occur in January 2021 if conditions allow. Contact Lucky Penny by email to [email protected] or call 707-266-6305.

The debut episode of our new radio show/podcast is now ready for your ears. Find out what we're up to, and enjoy an interview with special guest Natalie Lander. https://share.transistor.fm/s/951aba2a

Cookin' up something new...stand by for further instructions. #letsdostuff

Hello friends of Lucky Penny- Since our theatre world came to a sudden stop on March 11, 2020, we have done our best to adjust. We thought we would just be inconvenienced for a few weeks, but now we’re approaching six months in limbo. We have made new plans and alternate plans, and each time the pandemic has forced us to cancel those plans. At this time, we are sad that we have no choice but to tell you that the first three shows of our 2020-21 season must be postponed. Thes...Continue reading

Lucky Penny announces plans for Play-Demic festival - Short play scripts now accepted from Bay Area authors Lucky Penny Video Theatre seeks script submissions for a new short play festival about life in 2020. The Play-Demic will be a collection of stories for the stage about how life has been affected since the pandemic began, how life proceeds in the midst of it, and what happens next. Submissions are open to all writers in the nine-county Bay Area. All styles of plays... are welcome but must meet the following criteria: New works only and all plays must relate to the festival theme Technical simplicity essential No physical contact between actors in the storytelling Length as performed 5-15 minutes. Three characters maximum, with monologues and duologues encouraged. No situations with people on Zoom calls, please. All submissions must be by email in PDF format to [email protected] Entries accepted through September 18, 2020. Plays selected by the Artistic Director will be rehearsed in a Covid-safe manner and performed in our theatre for an audience of cameras. That will yield a recording that will be edited and presented in an on-demand fashion as part of the Lucky Penny Video Theatre project over the weekend of October 23-25, 2020. The authors of plays chosen for production will be provided a digital copy of the performed version as thanks. Lucky Penny Video Theatre is a new way of providing entertainment content for remote viewing while the pandemic limits live theatre possibilities. Donations to the company’s Pandemic Survival Fund are welcome. An online donation can be made at www.luckypennynapa.com. Donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Contact Lucky Penny by email to [email protected] or call 707-266-6305.

We've added an "Encore" performance of our Video Theatre concert so that means there are now virtual seats available. This link will take you there, or visit luckypennynapa.com https://red.vendini.com/ticket-software.html

Our new virtual concert debuts tonight at 7pm. Go to luckypennnynapa.com to get your virtual ticket, dial it up on demand style, and have a virtual good time. It's available all weekend!