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A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story
11/30 - 12/22/2024


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 ...

Million Dollar Quartet
Million Dollar Quartet
12/4 - 12/22/2024


The Tony® Award-nominated musical MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET is set on December 4, 1956, when an extraordinary twist of fate brought Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, ...

New Year's Eve with The Symphony


Conductor and host Andrew Lipke once again joins The Symphony to ring in the new with rock, pop and Broadway hits!  Lipke also shares the ...

Mean Girls (Non-Equity)
Mean Girls (Non-Equity)
1/8 - 1/9/2025


Direct from Broadway, MEAN GIRLS is the hilarious hit musical from an award-winning creative team, including book writer TINA FEY ("30 Rock"), composer JEFF RICHMOND ...

Mozart Marathon - Two Concerts, Two Different Programs


Come face to face with the genius of Mozart.   One weekend, two different concerts, eight masterworks.   The exquisite “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.”   Elegant concertos for piano, ...

Mozart Marathon - Two Concerts, Two Different Programs


Come face to face with the genius of Mozart.   One weekend, two different concerts, eight masterworks.   The exquisite “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.”   Elegant concertos for piano, ...

Dear Evan Hansen (Non-Equity)


Declared “one of the most remarkable shows in musical theater history” by the Washington Post, DEAR EVAN HANSEN is the first musical to take a ...


Kronos Quartet, in collaboration with the Grammy Award-winning ensemble Tonality and National Book Award-winning poet Nikky Finney, will present Michael Abels' work "At War With ...

Chaplin's Masterpiece @100 - The Gold Rush


With Chaplin’s enchanting blend of pantomime and music, his masterwork, “The Gold Rush,” has endured for a century. The Symphony performs Chaplin’s own score LIVE ...

Chaplin's Masterpiece @100 - The Gold Rush


With Chaplin’s enchanting blend of pantomime and music, his masterwork, “The Gold Rush,” has endured for a century. The Symphony performs Chaplin’s own score LIVE ...

Million Dollar Quartet
Million Dollar Quartet
2/7 - 3/9/2025


On a Tuesday night, shortly before Christmas 1956, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley gathered at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. ...

Ain't Too Proud (Non-Equity)
Ain't Too Proud (Non-Equity)
3/11 - 3/12/2025


AIN'T TOO PROUD is the electrifying new musical that follows The Temptations' extraordinary journey from the streets of Detroit to the Rock & Roll Hall ...

The Seven Deadly Sins


The sensational and sultry Storm Large will get the pulse-racing with her unique take on Kurt Weill’s seductive  The Seven Deadly Sins .  “A punk ...

The Seven Deadly Sins


The sensational and sultry Storm Large will get the pulse-racing with her unique take on Kurt Weill’s seductive  The Seven Deadly Sins .  “A punk ...

The Cake
The Cake
3/28 - 4/13/2025


Della makes cakes, not judgment calls – those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to ...

Brahms' Requiem


It was a work Brahms labored over for a dozen years.  Consoled by the psalms, the gospels, and the prophets, he set their words to ...

Brahms' Requiem


It was a work Brahms labored over for a dozen years.  Consoled by the psalms, the gospels, and the prophets, he set their words to ...

Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Non-Equity)


An uplifting comeback story like no other, TINA–The Tina Turner Musical is the inspiring journey of a woman who broke barriers and became the Queen ...

Gil Shaham Weekend - Two Concerts, Two Different Programs


“Resplendent,” raves the  Los Angeles Times  of violinist Gil Shaham. “The performance of a lifetime.”  Gil Shaham joins The Symphony and Nir Kabaretti for two programs.   On ...

I Hate Hamlet
I Hate Hamlet
5/2 - 5/18/2025


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. ...

You're a good Man, Charlie Brown


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 ...

Holmes and Watson
6/26 - 7/26/2025


Join Dr. Watson in a twisty, tantalizing mystery as he navigates a deadly guessing game to uncover the truth.

Blacknote
Blacknote
11/11 - 11/11/2025


At Black Note , we’re committed to crafting the most authentic-tasting tobacco e-liquid on earth. We come from a long line of tobacco experts who ...



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Review: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at PCPA: Marian Theater


by Anna Jensen - November 13, 2024

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by Anna Jensen - July 18, 2024

The Play That Goes Wrong is a side-splittingly funny production not to be missed. The laughs begin as you enter the theater and last to the final bows. It’s a play that goes wrong by design, of course, and then goes more wrong in service of our amusement as the Cornley Drama Society puts on the murd...

Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at PCPA: Solvang Festival Theater


by Anna Jensen - June 18, 2024

Little Shop of Horrors director/choreographer Keenan Hooks blends camp sensibilities with emotional honesty in his staging of this musical. The theatricality of the puppeteering in this send-up of B-horror flicks like “The Day of the Triffids” or “It Came from Outer Space” and 1960s pop tunes make i...

Review: THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT At Rubicon Theatre Company


by Anna Jensen - October 13, 2023

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by Anna Jensen - October 13, 2023

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Review: NUNSENSE At SLO Repertory Theatre


by Anna Jensen - September 22, 2023

'Nunsense,' now playing at SLO Rep, delivers an evening of heavenly harmonies and gentle comedy to tempt even novice theater-goers. ...

Review: EMMA at Marian Theater


by Anna Jensen - March 11, 2023

What did our critic think of EMMA at Marian Theater? A confectionary morsel of Regency romance!...

Review: CINDERELLA at PCPA's Marian Theater


by Anna Jensen - November 17, 2022

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