Mark Booher News

PCPA is proud to present Margaret Atwood's new stage adaptation of her own wry and witty novel, The Penelopiad, playing in the Severson Theatre, Santa Maria, March 5 - 22.

The San Patricios is a play of historical significance that has been waiting to be told. It looks inside the Mexican-American War and reveals traitors, deserters, and heroic fighters - who are all one in the same.

The San Patricios is a play of historical significance that has been waiting to be told. It looks inside the Mexican-American War and reveals traitors, deserters, and heroic fighters - who are all one in the same.

Noises Off plays in the Marian Theatre, tonight, April 24 - May 11, 2014, then in the Solvang Festival Theater, June 12 - 29.

Noises Off plays in the Marian Theatre, April 24 - May 11, 2014, then in the Solvang Festival Theater, June 12 - 29.

Come and experience the greatest English language play ever written - Shakespeare's sublime story of treachery and revenge, The Tragedy of Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark. Hamlet teeters on the edge of madness when he learns his uncle has killed his father and married his mother. Hamlet plays in the Marian Theatre February 13 - March 2, 2014.

Clybourne Park, a new play by Bruce Norris that defies definition, is sure to instigate much debate on social issues - past and present. It plays in the Severson Theatre tonight, September 12 - 29.

Clybourne Park, a new play by Bruce Norris that defies definition, is sure to instigate much debate on social issues - past and present. It plays in the Severson Theatre September 12 - 29.

Cyrano de Bergerac is a master of all trades, maddeningly uncompromising and brilliantly accomplished - poet, warrior, and romantic. Still, there's triangular trouble in his love for Roxane - his adversary DeGuiche, his friend Christian, and his own spectacular nose. When you've uncovered the courageous heart behind the nose, you'll fall in love under the stars in the Solvang Festival Theater August 17 through September 1. Revel in a rhapsody of words as pointed as rapiers in Rostand's poignant portrait of panache that goes beyond romantic pageantry.

Cyrano de Bergerac is a master of all trades, maddeningly uncompromising and brilliantly accomplished - poet, warrior, and romantic. Still, there's triangular trouble in his love for Roxane - his adversary DeGuiche, his friend Christian, and his own spectacular nose. When you've uncovered the courageous heart behind the nose, you'll fall in love under the stars in the Solvang Festival Theater August 17 through September 1. Revel in a rhapsody of words as pointed as rapiers in Rostand's poignant portrait of panache that goes beyond romantic pageantry.

PCPA Theaterfest's upcoming 2013 Summer Season - which runs from June 13 through September 29 - features an effervescent assortment of theatrical experiences including musicals, comedies and penetrating drama. With the Marian Theatre in the midst of renovations, the Severson Theatre will be the primary Santa Maria venue for two productions, while Solvang will host two transferring shows and two productions which will play exclusively in the outdoor Festival Theater.

Patricia M. Troxel, highly respected and dearly loved artist and teacher, died on Sunday, April 21 from complications of a fierce four-plus year battle with breast cancer. Patricia was well known to the Central Coast theatre community and community at large in her role as Director and Literary Manager for PCPA Theaterfest, where she directed and dramaturged dozens of plays and taught hundreds of students, and as an Emeritus Associate Professor of English at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Heralding a new season and ushering in the newly renovated Marian Theatre, the Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts (PCPA) begins its 50th year with a breathtaking line-up that features new works - including a world premiere - comedies, the best of Broadway's musical theatre, dramas, and a rock musical.

Little Women, the Broadway Musical based on the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott will play in PCPA's Marian Theatre February 16 - March 11 and the Solvang Festival Theater June 14 - July 1, 2012 under the Direction of Roger DeLaurier, with Choreography by Michael Jenkinson and Musical Direction by Callum Morris.

Little Women, the Broadway Musical based on the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott will play the Solvang Festival Theater June 14 - July 1, 2012 under the Direction of Roger DeLaurier, with Choreography by Michael Jenkinson and Musical Direction by Callum Morris.

All My Sons plays in the Severson Theatre March 8 - 25, 2012.

At this year's USITT (United States Institute of Technical Theatre) convention, the Thomas DeGaetani Award for the outstanding lifetime achievement and longtime contribution to the performing arts community was bestowed upon PCPA.

Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare's most popular romantic tragedy of two star crossed lovers, plays in the Marian Theatre April 19 - May 13, 2012.

All My Sons plays in the Severson Theatre March 8 - 25, 2012.

Little Women, the Broadway Musical based on the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott will play in PCPA's Marian Theatre February 16 - March 11 and the Solvang Festival Theater June 14 - July 1, 2012 under the Direction of Roger DeLaurier, with Choreography by Michael Jenkinson and Musical Direction by Callum Morris.