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Mean Girls


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 ...

What the Constitution Means to Me


Playwright Heidi Schreck’s boundary-breaking play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans. Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned ...

Ubu's Other Shoe Staged Reading: World Premiere


Title TBD — Experience being a part of the creative process as we present the world premiere of a brand new play....

Deer
Deer
3/29 - 4/21/2024


"Deer" at Ojai Art Center Theater: A dark comedy exploring love, guilt, and redemption. Cynthia and Ken navigate a jolting accident's aftermath.

The Lehman Trilogy
The Lehman Trilogy
4/4 - 4/21/2024


“Catapulted to the top of the industry, THE LEHMAN TRILOGY has profoundly resonated with audiences, both near and far,” comments Scott DeVine, ETC’s executive director. ...

Come From Away


Broadway’s COME FROM AWAY is a Best Musical winner all across North America! This New York Times Critics’ Pick takes you into the heart of ...

Mean Girls Jr
5/10 - 5/11/2024


The Plastics have deemed Broadway Junior worthy of their presence in Mean Girls JR! This musical from book writer Tina Fey (30 Rock), lyricist Nell Benjamin (Legally ...

Seussical
4/26 - 5/19/2024


Celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday and promote excitement in reading and literature with Seussical! This whimsical musical is based on the books of Dr. Seuss and ...

The Prom
5/3 - 5/19/2024


The Prom is a comedic musical with a heartwarming message, created by a talented team. The music was composed by Matthew Sklar, with lyrics by ...

The Thanksgiving Play
The Thanksgiving Play
5/3 - 5/19/2024


Good intentions collide with absurd assumptions in this wickedly funny satire, as a troupe of well-meaning, but hilariously misguided teaching artists scramble to create a ...

9 to 5 - The Musical
9 to 5 - The Musical
6/7 - 6/30/2024


Hey, a girl can scheme, can't she? Set in the late 1970s, this story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era is outrageous, thoughtprovoking and ...

Disney's The Little Mermaid
6/21 - 7/14/2024


In a magical kingdom fathoms below, a beautiful young mermaid longs to leave her ocean home to live in the world above. Adapted from Disney’s ...

Disney's Aladdin Kids
8/3 - 8/3/2024


Welcome to the marketplace of Agrabah, where we?re about to begin the fantastic tale of the street rat who became a prince! This stage adaptation ...

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: THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT At Rubicon Theatre Company


by Anna Jensen - October 13, 2023

What did our critic think of THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT at Rubicon Theatre Company?...

Review: THE THANKSGIVING PLAY at ETC


by Anna Jensen - October 13, 2023

What did our critic think of THE THANKSGIVING PLAY at ETC?...

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

What did our critic think of CINDERELLA at PCPA's Marian Theater?...

Review: INTO THE WOODS at PCPA


by Anna Jensen - August 15, 2022

A fun, sweet, and multi-layered presentation of this favorite of Stephen Sondheim's musicals. PCPA ventured 'Into the Woods' on Saturday night to open its run of Stephen Sondheim's musical. There's fun to be found in following well-known fairy tale characters such as Little Red Riding Hood (Ekatrina...

BWW Review: AMERICAN SON at Ensemble Theatre At The New Vic


by Maggie Yates - April 13, 2022

There's a lot to like about Ensemble's production of American Son, Christopher Demos-Brown's play about race and privilege in American society. The play feels timely and pertinent, broaching topics that bear weight on the minds of today's human in America: namely those born from the insistent racism...

BWW Review: THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY at Ensemble Theatre Company


by Maggie Yates - December 06, 2021

'The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley' is Jane Austin fanfiction that allows her popular characters life after the end of the novel. By Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, The Wickhams is harmless entertainment that transports the audience back to England of the early 1800s....

BWW Review: THE SECRET GARDEN at Marian Theater


by Anna Jensen - November 17, 2021

The Secret Garden, PCPA's enchanting holiday musical, will delight the whole family with its hopeful, heartfelt story of love, loss, and regeneration....

BWW Review: TOO MUCH LIGHT MAKES THE BABY GO BLIND at UCSB Theater Department


by Maggie Yates - November 08, 2021

UCSB students get a physical workout in Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, a series of 35 2-minute plays performed in random order based on audience suggestion. It's controlled chaos that ultimately pans out into a sequence of really interesting vignettes that cover the gamut of emotions, offer...



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