🎭✨ Willits Community Theatre is holding auditions next Tuesday for its 2026 season opener, “The Importance of Being Earnest.” All experience levels welcome.

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There's always discussion around streaming services, algorithms, surveillance and advertisements, funneling money into big corps etc.

But I've been trying to find ways to seek more entertainment within physical spaces. Within community.

We have a small community theater near me. Multiple troupes, comedians, and improv groups use it.

I've seen broadway plays, classic and new, there. I've seen standup comedies. This weekend, I'm going to see an improv special.

The tickets are very low cost. No one is becoming a millionaire. And the cast is often made up of local folks who do this as passion projects.

The audience is so small and close that you become part of the show. Your vibes and energy directly affect the cast. If you are on fire, they are on fire. If you are down, it reflects in their performance. We are humans in community and can feel each other.

I'm going with friends, to this improv show. There are two showings. But its improv. So while there is a centralized theme, theres no set in stone script. Watch it twice and the performance is distinctly different. The first nights are often rough but frenetic. The second nights are smoothed out with experience. Both have a vibrant uniqueness about it.

I still watch streaming services. I still put on Kanopy or Hoopla with my library card. But going out to a community play is such a rich experience that I find every opportunity to do so.

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Ordinarily I’d call this fog excessive but Dracula: The Musical deserves some preliminary 😶‍🌫️ ambience 😶‍🌫️

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