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Santa Barbara, CA 93101


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MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Comes to Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara


by Stephi Wild - November 15, 2024

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....

Photos: DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS at Ensemble Theatre Company


by Blair Ingenthron - October 12, 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!...

Ensemble Theatre Company Casts Two Local Students in WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 09, 2024

Ensemble Theatre Company is introducting talented Santa Barbara students, Nicola Bailey and Grace Wilson, joining the cast of What the Constitution Means to Me. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets....

EISENHOWER: THIS PIECE OF GROUND and WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME Comes to The Ensemble Theatre Company


by Stephi Wild - June 07, 2024

The Ensemble Theatre Company (ETC) of Santa Barbara announced the addition of two special event presentations: Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground by Richard Hellesen, directed by Peter Ellenstein and What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck and directed by Matt Hawkins. ...

Photos: First Look at ALICE, FORMERLY OF WONDERLAND at Ensemble Theatre Company


by Blair Ingenthron - June 02, 2024

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara is presenting the capstone production of its 45th season, the world premiere musical, ALICE, FORMERLY OF WONDERLAND. Check out photos here!...

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara Reveals Destinations for its Theatre Tour Program


by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 16, 2024

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara has revealed upcoming destinations for its popular Theatre Tour Program. See where the company is touring to, and learn more!...

Photos: First Look at the Cast of ALICE, FORMERLY OF WONDERLAND at Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara


by Stephi Wild - May 08, 2024

 Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara has announced the capstone production of its 45th season, the world premiere musical, ALICE, FORMERLY OF WONDERLAND. Check out photos of the cast here!...

 ALICE, FORMERLY OF WONDERLAND Comes to Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara


by Stephi Wild - May 07, 2024

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara has announced the capstone production of its 45th season, the world premiere musical, ALICE, FORMERLY OF WONDERLAND....

Photos: First Look at Ensemble Theatre Company's THE LEHMAN TRILOGY


by Blair Ingenthron - April 06, 2024

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara has released production photos from the much-anticipated production of Troy Blendell, Chris Butler and Leo Marks starring in The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Power and directed by Oánh Nguyễn. Check them out here!...

Photos: First Look at Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara's THE LEHMAN TRILOGY


by Stephi Wild - March 14, 2024

All new photos have been released from Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara's production of The Lehman Trilogy, starring Troy Blendell, Chris Butler and Leo Marks. Check out the photos here!...

Past Shows

SEARED
6/8 - 6/25/2023

The Children (Kirkwood)
4/7 - 4/24/2022


Lucy Kirkwood Ensemble Theatre Company...


Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon Ensemble Theatre Company...


The remarkably personal and poignant bio-musical of the legendary song stylist. Featuring a live, on-stage band, the show presents beloved songs, including “Hey There (You ...

American Son
4/9 - 4/26/2020


A gripping new play fresh from Broadway. This nail-biting story takes place in real-time in the waiting room of a police station where, in the ...

Emma The Musical
2/6 - 2/23/2020


A charming and clever musical adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel, from the Tony Award-nominated composer of Daddy Long Legs. A beautiful, witty, and determined ...


adapt: Joe Landry; dir: Brian McDonald....


Jimmy Stewart meets The 39 Steps in this zany and touching adaptation of the beloved classic American holiday story. Set in the fictional town of ...

Measure For Measure
10/3 - 10/20/2019


One of William Shakespeare’s most beguiling plays dramatizes one of Shakespeare’s more infamous bargains: a young woman’s virginity in exchange for her brother’s life. This ...

Cookin' at the Cookery
Cookin' at the Cookery
6/7 - 6/24/2018


A sensation in the 1920s through the 1950s, jazz and blues legend Alberta Hunter set aside her life as an artist during the peak of ...

The Invisible Hand
The Invisible Hand
4/12 - 4/29/2018


Set in Pakistan, American investment banker Nick Bright is kidnapped by an extremist organization and held for a $10 million ransom. When his company refuses ...

The City of Conversation
The City of Conversation
2/8 - 2/25/2018


It’s 1979, and Washington, D.C. socialite Hester Ferris is notorious for her posh dinner parties that can change the course of politics. But when her ...

Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley


Spend the holiday season with your favorite “Pride and Prejudice” characters as they gather at Pemberley, the stately home of Mr. and Mrs. Darcy. In ...

Husbands & Wives
Husbands & Wives
10/5 - 10/22/2017


A world-premiere adaptation of Woody Allen’s 1992 groundbreaking film, which was nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay. A witty and urbane comic-drama, Husbands and ...

Husbands and Wives
10/5 - 10/22/2017


In New York, women's clock also packs faster than elsewhere and in men, the midday demon is equally punctual. Thus, two couples will discover in ...

Syncopation
Syncopation
6/8 - 6/25/2017


From the mind of Little Women playwright Allan Knee comes a magical romance set in Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the 1910’s. Desperate for an ...

Baby Doll
Baby Doll
4/13 - 4/30/2017


In the spring, ETC will present the seductive black comedy Baby Doll, by Tennessee Williams, based on the 1956 Golden Globe and BAFTA Award-winning film ...

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess


Ensemble Theatre Company's 2016-17 season continues with a bold jazz interpretation of the great American musical Porgy and Bess, composed by George Gershwin, with a ...

Chapter Two
Chapter Two
12/1 - 12/18/2016


For the holiday season, ETC presents Neil Simon’s heartfelt comedy, Chapter Two. Set in New York during Christmas in the 1970s, this charming and poignant ...

Macbeth
9/29 - 10/16/2016


William Shakespeare; dir: Jonathan Fox....

Macbeth
9/29 - 10/16/2016


William Shakespeare; dir: Jonathan Fox....

Fallen Angels
Fallen Angels
6/9 - 6/26/2016


With their passionless husbands away playing golf, a mutual long-ago lover announces his intention to pay Julia and Jane an impromptu visit. All in a ...

Bad Jews
Bad Jews
4/14 - 5/1/2016


Daphna Feygenbaum swears she is the most devout Jew in her family. When her less observant cousin arrives to claim a treasured family heirloom and ...

Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess
2/9 - 2/26/2016


The season continues with a bold jazz interpretation of the great American musical Porgy and Bess, composed by George Gershwin, with a libretto by DuBose ...

I Am My Own Wife
I Am My Own Wife
2/4 - 2/21/2016


Not long after the fall of the Berlin Wall, playwright Doug Wright began a conversation with Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, an elegant and eccentric 65-year-old German ...

Women in Jeopardy!
12/3 - 12/20/2015


Thelma and Louise meets The First Wives Club in this fun and flirtatious new comedy by Rochester-born playwright Wendy MacLeod. Divorcees Mary and Jo are ...

Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd
10/8 - 10/25/2015


Sondheim returns to ETC with a soaring musical masterpiece that tells the tale of a barber seeking justice for the corrupt London judge who exiled ...

Venus in Fur
Venus in Fur
6/11 - 6/28/2015


A sexy, smart and funny adaptation of the 1870 erotic novel Venus in Furs by Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, which inspired the term "masochism." ...

Woyzeck
Woyzeck
4/16 - 5/3/2015


A rarely performed musical adaptation by Tom Waits of one of the most influential plays ever written, Georg Büchner’s classic Woyzeck. When a soldier returns ...

Intimate Apparel
Intimate Apparel
2/5 - 2/22/2015


Set in New York in 1905, this story of an African-American woman who sews “intimate apparel” for clients ranging from wealthy white ladies to prostitutes ...

The Best Brothers
The Best Brothers
12/4 - 12/21/2014


The U.S. premiere of a new comedy. Kyle Best has been estranged from his brother, Hamilton, until their mother dies in a freak accident at ...

Amadeus
Amadeus
10/9 - 10/26/2014


Winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best Play, and winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1985, Amadeus brims with gorgeous music and ...

Looped
Looped
7/10 - 7/27/2014


A touching and delectable comedy about the saucy and inimitable Tallulah Bankhead, who once said of herself: “I’m as pure as the driven slush.” Based ...

Red
Red
5/15 - 6/1/2014


In 1958, when the renowned painter Mark Rothko is commissioned to create a series of paintings for a new and exclusive Four Seasons restaurant. But ...

Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
3/27 - 4/13/2014


Ancient stories and characters — King Midas, Orpheus and Eurydice, and others — are brought to stunning life in a unique theatrical experience. Winner of ...

Good People
Good People
2/6 - 2/23/2014


Does where we grow up inexorably imprint itself on our destiny? Nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play, this comic drama about social class ...

A Little Night Music
A Little Night Music
12/5 - 12/22/2013


Inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film "Smiles of a Summer Night", Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s beloved musical is a warmly humorous and, at times, ...


- Terrence McNally; dir: Saundra McClain....


- Joan Didion; dir: Jenny Sullivan....

Black Peal Sings!
Black Peal Sings!
6/14 - 7/1/2012


A song collector for the Library of Congress travels the country seeking little-known melodies. When she encounters Pearl in a Texas prison, she discovers dozens ...

BLACK PEARL SINGS!
6/14 - 7/1/2012


In 1935 Texas, Susannah, an academic and song collector for the Library of Congress, visits a high-security prison where she meets Pearl, an African-American woman ...

Creditors
Creditors
3/29 - 4/15/2012


At a seaside resort, Adolph, a young artist, is frustrated by his marriage to the older, domineering Tekla and begins to doubt her love for ...

The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps
2/2 - 2/19/2012


Richard Hannay, a debonair gentleman, is at a London theatre, when a fight breaks out and shots are fired. In the ensuing panic, he finds ...

The Lion in Winter
The Lion in Winter
12/1 - 12/18/2011


In the year 1183, King Henry II is planning to choose his successor. But he must first run a gauntlet of conniving by his wife, ...

Underneath the Lintel
Underneath the Lintel
10/13 - 10/30/2011


A by-the-book (no pun intended) librarian sets out to find the culprit who returns a book 113 years overdue. A clue scribbled in the margin ...

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San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre (5/2 - 5/18)
Mozart Marathon - Two Concerts, Two Different Programs in Santa Barbara Mozart Marathon - Two Concerts, Two Different Programs
The Granada Theatre (1/19 - 1/19)
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The Granada Theatre (2/15 - 2/15)
Dear Evan Hansen (Non-Equity) in Santa Barbara Dear Evan Hansen (Non-Equity)
Performing Arts Center (2/12 - 2/13)
New Year's Eve with The Symphony in Santa Barbara New Year's Eve with The Symphony
The Granada Theatre (12/31 - 12/31)
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The Granada Theatre (3/23 - 3/23)
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