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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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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.



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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


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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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