For the first time at Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Placer Repertory Theater performs their touring show Storytellers Theater: PINOCCHIO. Photo courtesy of Placer Repertory Theater

SACRAMENTO, CA (MPG) - For the first time at Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Placer Repertory Theater performs their touring show Storytellers Theater: PINOCCHIO. Trained performers use improv and commedia to turn storytelling into interactive theater on Friday, June 26 at 10:30 a.m. Performances are appropriate for students from TK through sixth grade and their families as patrons engage from their seats or volunteer to join the professional actors onstage.

“Thanks to the Sacramento Fine Arts Center, we’re so pleased to have this opportunity to share our creative adaptation of PINOCCHIO for Sacramento area audience members,” said T.S. Forsyth, producing artistic director. “This is our first time performing at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center, and we hope this performance will be the first of many Storytellers Family Theater and Main Season offerings at this location.”

For the June 26 performance, the PINOCCHIO cast includes Jessica Martinelli, who was most recently seen as the villainous Madge Larrabee in the Spring 2026 show Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Miss Faulkner, John Cablao who played both Jonathan Harker and Miss Lucy in Fall 2025’s DRACULA: A Melodrama, and Natalie Bordwell, who has been performing this Spring in Placer Rep School Tours shows throughout the region. FMI on June 26 PINOCCHIO: visit Our.Show/StorytellersTheater/SacFineArts.

Storytellers Theater may be booked to perform at schools on weekdays or for family audiences on weekends and weekday evenings throughout the Greater Sacramento Metro Area. From private parties and group bookings to scholastic and commercial venues, those interested in booking Storytellers Theater or Placer Repertory Theater’s main season offerings may contact [email protected].  

Placer Repertory Theater (PlacerRep.org) operates VAPA ELO programs and is an award-winning 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with the mission to offer educational and quality-of-life enriching professional performing arts and cultural programs relevant to the people of Placer County and surrounding area, while supporting local organizations and acting as an economic engine for the region. Follow Placer Repertory Theater on Facebook & LinkedIn (PlacerRep) and social media (Instagram / Thread / YouTube): @PlacerRep.