It's a Wonderful Life

The Department of Theatre, Film, and Communication Arts and Enceladus Theatre Company present It's a Wonderful Life, A Live Radio Play! The wildly popular, classic, holiday film, It's a Wonderful Life, has been changed into an entertaining live-reading radio play, Thursday, December 4, and Friday, December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM in the Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts at Whittier College. The cast features three Whittier College professors, Seamus Lagan, Katie Liddicoat*, and dAvid pAddy, alum and professional actor Kyle Fox '12, professional actor and educator Christopher Glen Cannon*, and Whittier College students Esme McGuire '26, Calvin Morgenstern '27, and Johnna Gaines '28.  Katryna Dillard '15 and Nora Roeder '16 provide stage management and technical support.

Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at www.enceladustheatre.org. Whittier College Faculty and Staff can use the code WCFACSTAFF to receive $15 off their tickets (the student discount code will be available via Engage). This production is a collaboration between the Department of Theatre, Film, and Communication Arts and Enceladus Theatre Company, a professional theatre that has regularly worked with Whittier College students as acting interns and theatre technicians. This special performance is a benefit production, produced with expressed written permission of Theatre Authority.