Another season of great shows is on the way and the BEST way to be sure you don’t miss a minute is to BUY SEASON TICKETS! Don’t wait and find yourself standing in line for last minute tickets to a SOLD OUT show, mark your calendar for the on sale dates listed below and buy your tickets early for guaranteed, priority seating for each and every show. You’ll get the BEST seats at the BEST price with unlimited ticket exchanges all year long.
Season Tickets on Sale:
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2024
Individual Shows on Sale:
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2024
Mainstage Season Subscription Shows
5 Shows for only $199!
Only available for sale as part of a Season Subscription until July 10th.
The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)
Aug 16-Sep 15, 2024
Music by Eric Rockwell
Lyrics by Joanne Bogart
Book by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart
In this hilarious satire of musical theatre, one story is turned into five mini musicals, each written in the distinctive style of a different master of the form: Rodgers & Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Kander & Ebb.
Misery
Oct 11-27, 2024
By William Goldman
Based on the novel by Stephen King
Misery follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash by his “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive in her secluded home. While Paul is convalescing, Annie reads his latest book and becomes enraged when she discovers the author has killed off her favorite character.
The Cake
Mar 28-Apr 13, 2025
By Bekah Brunstetter
Della makes cakes, not judgment calls – those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to North Carolina to get married, and the fiancé is actually a fiancée, Della’s life gets turned upside down. She can’t really make a cake for such a wedding, can she? For the first time in her life, Della has to think for herself.
I Hate Hamlet
May 2-18, 2025
by Paul Rudnick
In Paul Rudnick’s hilarious dramatic comedy, when television star Andrew Rally moves back to New York and finds himself cast as Hamlet, nothing seems right. With lucrative offers of shallow television shows, self-doubt, and fear of the greatest of roles, and a girlfriend who won’t have sex with him, it takes the supernatural intervention of the ghost of Andrew’s apartment’s former resident–the legendary John Barrymore–to help Andrew confront the challenges of life on stage (and in the bedroom).
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
June 6-29, 2025
Based on The Comic Strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz
Book, Music and Lyrics by Clark Gesner
Additional Dialogue by Michael Mayer
Additional Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Original Direction for this version of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown by Michael Mayer
Originally Produced in New York by Arthur Whitelaw and Gene Persson
Happiness is great musical theatre! With charm, wit, and heart, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown explores life through the eyes of Charlie Brown and his friends in the Peanuts gang. Musical numbers include “My Blanket and Me,” “The Kite,” “The Baseball Game,” “Little Known Facts,” “Suppertime,” and “Happiness.” Guaranteed to please audiences of all ages!
“I regard the theater as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” – Oscar Wilde
A La Carte Shows
Not included in season subscription package; available for sale ONLY to season subscribers until July 10, 2024.
Mamma Mia!*
February 7-March 9, 2025
Music and Lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus
Book by Catherine Johnson
Originally conceived by Judy Craymer
ABBA’s timeless songs propel this enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship, creating an unforgettable show. Featuring some of their greatest hits – Dancing Queen, Mamma Mia, I Do, I Do, I Do, Super Trouper and more! – this sunny and funny tale unfolds on a Greek island paradise as a young woman’s search for her birth father on the eve of her wedding brings hilarious and often touching results. A mother, a daughter, three best friends, three possible dads and a trip down the aisle you’ll never forget!
SPECIAL VALENTINE’S GALA PARTY & SHOW!
Friday, February 14, 2025 – 5:30 pm
Make your Valentine’s Weekend extra special with an all-inclusive evening of entertainment starting with a pre-show reception featuring delectable hors d’oeuvres, wine, cocktails and more, capped off by a fabulous performance of Mamma Mia!
*Please Note: Performance rights for this show are not yet confirmed.
A Christmas Story
November 30-December 22, 2024
A Play in Two Acts written by Philip Grecian
Based on the Warner Bros. Motion Picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown & Bob Clark and on the book “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash” by Jean Shepherd
A Central Coast Holiday Tradition! Jean Shepherd’s memoir of growing up in the Midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself, at Higbee’s Department Store. The consistent response: “You’ll shoot your eye out!”
“That’s the magic of art and the magic of theatre; it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think.” — Brian Stokes Mitchell
Ubu’s Other Shoe
5 Staged Readings – $90
20th Anniversary Season!
Only available for sale as part of a Season Subscription until July 10th.
Fortinbras
September 20-21, 2024
by Lee Blessing
“Where we suffered and wailed at the consequences of Shakespeare’s tragedy, we can laugh along with Blessing at what follows in its wake…Shakespeare himself would have loved it.” —Drama-Logue
Molly Sweeney
November 1-2, 2024
by Brian Friel
“…one of those marvelous onion plays…As you peel away each plump and juicy layer, another layer emerges underneath, and yet another…What a marvelous play this is! See it—wander in it and wonder at it.” —New York Post
17 Raccoons
or It’s a Really Long Story
March 14-15, 2025
Written & Performed by Jill Turnbow
If you were lucky enough to see Jill in her one-woman show “Between Iraq and a Hard Place” in 2015, then you know that you don’t want to miss this world premiere staged reading of her newest work.
Seminar
April 18-19, 2025
by Theresa Rebeck
“Big laughs… an authentic rush of pleasure.” –The New York Times
Ada and the Engine
May 23-24, 2025
by Lauren Gunderson
“…wise and witty…a very smart and skillful Victorian parlor drama.” – SF Weekly
“Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.” — Willem Dafoe
Academy of Creative Theatre Mainstage Shows
Tickets for ACT shows on sale June 5th.
Crazy for You
July 19-28, 2024
Music & Lyrics by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin
Book by Ken Ludwig
A zany rich-boy-meets-hometown-girl romantic comedy professionally-produced and performed by the young actors of ACT!
Twelfth Night or What You Will
January 10-19, 2025
By William Shakespeare
The young actors of ACT take on Shakespeare’s delightful comedy of shipwrecks, mistaken identities and cross-gartered yellow stockings!
“I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost. It’s there and then it’s gone.” — Dame Maggie Smith
That is our 78th Season of live theatre! Subscribe early for great seats and we’ll see you at the theatre!
