Santa Barbara Theatre Newsroom

Voting continues for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

Voting is now open for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

Don't miss your chance to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara is presenting MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, with a book by Colin Escott & Floyd Mutrux. Check out production photos here!

The Industry will celebrate more than 10 years of groundbreaking and transformational opera works by honoring founder Yuval Sharon at its special celebration, The Decade Party, on Thursday January 30, 2025 at the Bradbury Building in Downtown L.A.

Check out the first stats for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara will present “Community Pay-What-You-Can ”preview performance of MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara (ETC) will bring to its subscribers and audiences the second production of its 2024/2025 season, MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET. Performances begin next month.

 The Jim Henson Company's fun loving, musical Fraggles are sharing their joy and magic across North America in Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock LIVE, the first-ever live touring show based on the beloved franchise.

What did our critic think of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at PCPA: Marian Theater?

The SBCC Theatre Arts Department presents a student showcase production of MRS. BOB CRATCHIT’S WILD CHRISTMAS BINGE by Christopher Durang, directed by Katie Laris, November 13-23, 2024 in the Jurkowitz Theatre. Check out first look photo here!

 The Department of Theater and Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara will present Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s groundbreaking musical, The Threepenny Opera.

Time is running out to submit nominations for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Awards. Don't miss Thursday's October 31st deadline!

Explore Santa Barbara Dance Theater's 2024 Fall Season, 'A Place for Us,' presented by UCSB's Department of Theater/Dance. Discover the innovative performances and creative vision behind this season.

The Department of Theater and Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara will present Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s groundbreaking musical, The Threepenny Opera.

The American Theatre Guild will present CLUE, the hilarious murder mystery comedy inspired by the Hasbro board game and adapted from the fan-favorite film.

Time is running out to submit nominations for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Awards. Don't miss next week's October 31st deadline!

The SBCC Theatre Arts Department will present a student showcase production of MRS. BOB CRATCHIT’S WILD CHRISTMAS BINGE by Christopher Durang, directed by Katie Laris, November 13-23, 2024 in the Jurkowitz Theatre.

This holiday season, PCPA brings the beloved Disney classic Beauty and the Beast to the Marian Theatre stage from November 7 through December 22, 2024.

There are just two weeks left to submit nominations for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Awards. The 2024 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024.

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara is presenting the first production of its 2024/2025 season, the hilarious Off-Broadway hit comedy with plenty of bite, DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS, written by Gordon Greenberg & Steve Rosen and directed by Jamie Torcellini. Check out photos below!

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee is a gripping courtroom drama that brings history to life with a powerful clash of ideas. Based on the famous Scopes 'Monkey' Trial, this play pits science against faith in a battle over the teaching of evolution in schools.

The Theatre School @ North Coast Rep will present five eerie and macabre Edgar Allen Poe short stories and poems as, Shuddersome: Tales of Poe for its next student production!

North Coast Repertory Theatre will present the San Diego Premiere of INCIDENT AT OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP. Set against the vibrant backdrop of the 1970s, Katie Forgette’s charming comedy unfolds within the confines of a working-class home.

Pompano Beach Arts has announced the opening of Imaginary Gardens, a solo exhibition by Argentine-born visual artist Magda Love at Bailey Contemporary Arts (BaCA).