Awards- Cinnabar Theater Sonoma County Theater, North Bay, Petaluma, Drama, Opera, Musical

Cinnabar Theater strives to present the finest quality performing arts in Sonoma County.

Here are some of the honorary notices that we've received in the last few years. We're very proud of these achievements and grateful to our community for supporting live theater.

Congratulations to the honorees, and thank you to all of our patrons!

Cinnabar Theater is underwritten by the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, Barlow Printing, Cinnabar Parent Guild, City of Petaluma, Community Foundation Sonoma County, County of Sonoma, Fireman¹s Fund Foundation, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Kimball Foundation, Marvin Klebe Memorial Fund, Lagunitas Brewery, Ron Mortimore Memorial Scholarship Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, Smith Family Charitable Trust and Wells Fargo Foundation.

A complete list of members July 24, 2004-July 23, 2005 can be seen here

Cinnabar Theater receives The Cultural Arts Council of Sonoma County presents the Arts in Education Award

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April 15, 2003

Youth in Education Award goes to Petaluma’s Cinnabar Young Repertory Theater

In 2003, the Cultural Arts Council of Sonoma County recognized Cinnabar Theater for having the finest Youth Theater arts program in the county.

The Cultural Arts Council of Sonoma County has awarded the Cinnabar Young Repertory Theater with an Arts in Education Award, citing its excellence in teaching the dramatic arts to the youth of Sonoma County. Young Rep celebrates its 20^th birthday this spring; twenty years of dramatic and musical classes, summer acting camps, mainstage productions, thousands of children ages 4-18 taking classes that run the gamut from Primary Players to full productions by teens of play by Shakespeare and Gilbert and Sullivan.

The award was presented to Artistic Director Elly Lichenstein in a ceremony at Person Theater on the Sonoma State Campus. Lichenstein applauded the dedicated Cinnabar teaching staff without which there would be no program.

"Art is the signature of civilizations." Beverly Sills

"The Cultural Arts Council of Sonoma County presents the Arts in Education Award to Cinnabar Theater for your time and contribution to the youth and families in our community by making the creative process come alive in meaningful ways through enthusiasm, joy, and focus."

Cinnabar Theater won the Critics' Circle award for Best Musical Production of 2004 (La Traviata)

Jillian Kuhner was nominated for best performance by an actress in a musical (La Traviata)

GAUGUIN’S SHADOW by Fred Curchack, which premiered at Cinnabar Theater in November of 2003, was selected by the Dallas Theatre Critics Association as "Best New Play" of the year.

John O'Keefe won the 2002-2003 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for best writing of a play for Times Like These, which premiered at Cinnabar Theater in 2002 under the title of Crystal Night. Times Like These has also won:
   L.A. Weekly - Best Play, Best Cast
   Ovation - Best Cast, Best Play (Nomination)
   L.A. Times - Top 10

John O'Keefe's play, Glamour, which premiered at Cinnabar in 2001, received a nomination for Best Play of the Year from the American Theatre Critics' Circle.

In 1997, Marvin Klebe, founder of Cinnabar Theater, was honored with an Indie Award at the First Annual Indies, sponsored by the Sonoma County Independent, now known as the North Coast Bohemian.

Fred Curchack, who has been artist in residence since 1978, has toured numerous play s premiered at Cinnabar which have gone on to win the Gold Medal at the International Festival of Solo Theater, the American Theater Wing Award, Critics’ Awards in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Austin, and his work has been in the "Top Ten" of The New York Times and The Dallas Morning News.