Richmond Hill Players begin their 2026 season continues with the comedy “The Charitable Sisterhood of the Second Victory Trinity Church,” by Bo Wilson. The show will be presented Thursdays through Sundays, April 16-26 at the Barn Theatre in Geneseo. Mike Skiles, Geneseo, directs the play.

The roads are flooded, the bridges are washed out, and less-generous souls are staying safely indoors, but it takes more than a little rain to keep the ladies of the Charitable Sisterhood from fulfilling their sworn mission, according to a synopsis. When these ladies meet to organize a relief effort for homeless Guatemalans, they are greeted with a small mountain of community donations—but one woman’s junk is another woman’s treasure, and that pile of stuff in this small church basement is hiding a thing or two.

Come sit in on this month’s meeting in the basement of Second Trinity Victory Church; these five angels of mercy will leave you breathless with laughter as they do their best to help the victims of global disaster, spiritual deprivation and, most of all, one another. (Parental guidance is recommended for mature themes.)

Jalayne Riewerts, left, Tifany Simosky, and Melanie Gillespie.

The cast features Tifany Simosky, Dana Skiles, Larry Lord (Geneseo); Melanie Gillespie (Colona); Elissa Dynes (Kewanee), and Jalayne Riewerts (Morrison).

On Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, the doors open at 6:30 p.m. with the show beginning at 7:30 p.m. Sundays are 3 p.m. matinees with the doors opening at 2. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling the Richmond Hill box office at 309-944-2244 or by visiting the website at rhplayers.com. Late seating is not permitted; no one will be admitted to the theater after the show has started. Admission to all performances is $12.

An audio description performance will be held Friday, April 17.  Richmond Hill also offers Assistive Listening Devices (ALDs), which can be requested at the time that reservations are made.

Elissa Dynes, left, and Dana Skiles.

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Jonathan Turner

Jonathan Turner -- who has called the Quad Cities home since 1995 -- has decades of experience as a professional journalist and pianist. His experience writing for daily newspapers, public radio and local TV encompasses a wide range of subjects, including the arts, politics, education, economic development, historic preservation, business, and tourism.

Jonathan most loves writing about music and the arts (which he now does as a freelancer for the River Cities Reader and Visit Quad Cities). He has a passion for accompanying musicals, singers, choirs and instrumentalists, including playing for QC Music Guild's 2023 productions of RENT and SWEENEY TODD. He is assistant music director and accompanist for the spring 2025 Music Guild show, ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE. He wrote an original musical based on The Book of Job, which premiered at Playcrafters in 2010. Jonathan penned a 175-page history book about downtown Davenport, that was published by The History Press in 2016, and a travel guide about the QC published by Reedy Press in 2022.