The Masquers Playhouse (formerly the Point Richmond Village Playhouse[1]) is an 89-seat community theatre in Point Richmond in Contra Costa County, California.[2]
It is home to the Masquers, a local performing group that has been in production since 1955.[3] Its first play was The Happiest Millionaire in March 1960.[4]
The theatre has been presented with honors and recognition from various members of Congress, state legislature, and other politicians.[citation needed]
In March 2016 the theatre, then about 110 years old, had to close due to structural problems, but the Masquers continued to stage performances in various nearby venues and held fundraising events to pay for repairs and renovations (seismic retrofitting and wheelchair accessibility).[5][6]
The East Bay Times reported in June 2020 that repairs were expected to be complete by September (along with a newly remodeled lobby and restrooms).[2]
As of August 2024, according to its website, Masquers was performing three plays and two musicals per year, with performances on Friday and Saturday evenings, and some Sunday matinees. The theatre also hosts children's programs and short-run pieces as part of its Envison program.[7]
Jack London Square is a neighborhood on the waterfront of Oakland, California, United States. Named after the author Jack London and owned by the Port of Oakland, it is the home of stores, restaurants, hotels, Amtrak's Jack London Square station, a San Francisco Bay Ferry ferry dock, the historic Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon, the (re-located) cabin where Jack London lived in the Klondike, and a movie theater. The former presidential yacht USS Potomac is moored at an adjacent slip.
The California College of the Arts (CCA) is a private art school in San Francisco, California. It was founded in Berkeley, California in 1907 and moved to a historic estate in Oakland, California in 1922. In 1996, it opened a second campus in San Francisco; in 2022, the Oakland campus was closed and merged into the San Francisco campus. CCA enrolls approximately 1,239 undergraduates and 380 graduate students.
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