{"id":2348844,"date":"2026-03-28T05:16:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2348844"},"modified":"2026-03-28T05:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:16:40","slug":"theatre-group-at-sbcc-stages-comedy-unnecessary-farce-arts-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/theatre-group-at-sbcc-stages-comedy-unnecessary-farce-arts-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre Group at SBCC Stages Comedy &#8216;Unnecessary Farce&#8217; | Arts &#038; Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Felicia Hall, Nicholis Sheley, Charlotte Hecker and Will Hughs star in The Theatre Group at SBCC\u2019s production of \u2018Unnecessary Farce\u2019 by Paul Slade Smith. (Courtesy photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Theatre Group at SBCC will finish its 80th season with the comedy \u201cUnnecessary Farce\u201d by Paul Slade Smith, directed by Sara Rademacher, April 15-May 2 in the Jurkowitz Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>A who\u2019s-on-first-style comedy, \u201cUnnecessary Farce\u201d features two cops, three crooks, and eight doors.<\/p>\n<p>In a cheap motel room, an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant, while in the room next-door, two undercover cops wait to catch the meeting on videotape.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s some confusion as to who\u2019s in which room, who\u2019s being videotaped, who\u2019s taken the money, who\u2019s hired a hit man, and why the accountant keeps taking off her clothes.<\/p>\n<p>The cast of \u201cUnnecessary Farce\u201d features\u00a0Felicia Hall, Charlotte Hecker, Will Hughs, James McCarthy, Jenna Scanlon, Nicholis Sheley, and Matthew Tavianini.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Hall (Karen Brown) has performed professionally throughout California, Utah and England. She has received awards, including Robins Talent of the Year, an Indy, multiple Broadway World awards, and a CCART award.<\/p>\n<p>Her Theatre Group at SBCC credits are \u201cA Small Family Business,\u201d \u201cLegally Blonde,\u201d \u201cGuys and Dolls,\u201d \u201cA Comedy of Tenors,\u201d and \u201cCommunicating Doors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hecker (Billie Dwyer) has appeared in several Theatre Group and Theatre Department productions at SBCC. Credits include\u00a0\u201cJohn Proctor Is the Villain,\u201d and, most recently,\u00a0\u201cArms and the Man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hughs (Todd)\u00a0returns to the SBCC stage after 43 years, having last appeared as Jules in\u00a0\u201cMy Three Angels.\u201d An SBCC alumnus, he later performed extensively on stage in San Francisco during the 1980s and \u201990s, and was a member of SAG.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy is making his second appearance for the Theatre Group at SBCC. During the 2023-24 season he was featured in\u00a0\u201cTreasure Island.\u201d Other recent productions include: \u201cKing Lear\u201d and\u00a0\u201cUncle Vanya\u201d for Lit Moon Theatre;\u00a0\u201cTales from Ellis Island\u201d and\u00a0\u201cA Scottish Celebration\u00a0of the Winter Solstice\u201d for Santa Barbara Revels.<\/p>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<\/p>\n<p>Scanlon has trained at SBCC, Utah Shakespeare Festival &amp; ACT.\u00a0In addition to shows at SBCC, she has performed with UCSB\u2019s Launch Pad, On the Verge Theater Festival, Out of the Box, and California Shakespeare Co.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Sheley (Eric Sheridan), an SBCC graduate, has been performing with The Theatre Group at SBCC for six years. Credits include \u201cThe Outsider,\u201d \u201cThe Play That Goes Wrong,\u201d \u201cSomething Rotten!\u201d (as Nick Bottom, a role that earned him the 2022 Broadway World Santa Barbara Award for Best Performer in a Musical).<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Santa Maria, Sheley trained in the two-year acting program at The Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Tavianini (Agent Frank) has served as the managing director\/producer\/actor with the Boxtales Theatre Co. for some 25 years. He is a graduate of UCSB and the Florida State University\/Asolo Conservatory.<\/p>\n<p>He co-founded Lit Moon Theatre Company and was recently in its production of \u201cKing Lear,\u201d which will tour to Yerevan, Armenia and Craiova, Romania later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Theatre Group at SBCC credits include \u201cArms and the Man, \u201cCrime and Punishment,\u201d \u201cTreasure Island,\u201d \u201cThe Play That Goes Wrong,\u201d \u201cMurder on the Orient Express,\u201d and \u201cOne Man, Two Guvnors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rademacher (Director) previously directed \u201cJohn Proctor Is the Villain\u201d and \u201cThe Wolves\u201d at the Jurkowitz Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Her work has been seen Off-Broadway at Joe\u2019s Public Theater and at theaters and festivals across the country.<\/p>\n<p>She was the founding co-artistic director of Elements Theatre Collective and has worked in dramaturgy, directing, new play development, and youth theater with local companies Ensemble Theatre, LaunchPad, On the Verge, and Out of the Box.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Performances will be April 17-May 2 with previews April 15-16.\u00a0Due to the intimate nature of the Jurkowitz Theatre, no late seating is permitted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For tickets call the Box Office, 805-965-5935 or visit <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatregroupsbcc.com\">www.theatregroupsbcc.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.noozhawk.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felicia Hall, Nicholis Sheley, Charlotte Hecker and Will Hughs star in The Theatre Group at SBCC\u2019s production of \u2018Unnecessary Farce\u2019 by Paul Slade Smith. (Courtesy photo) The Theatre Group at SBCC will finish its 80th season with the comedy \u201cUnnecessary Farce\u201d by Paul Slade Smith, directed by Sara Rademacher, April 15-May 2 in the Jurkowitz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2348845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[22442],"class_list":["post-2348844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-arts-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Theatre-Group-at-SBCC-Stages-Comedy-Unnecessary-Farce-Arts.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2348844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2348846,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348844\/revisions\/2348846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2348845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2348844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2348844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2348844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}