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Margaret Edson's Pulitzer-Price winning play 'Wit' focusers on Dr. Vivian Bearing, a 50-year-old professor of English who is dying from ovarian cancer. The play examines the dispassionate way cancer patients are treated, with Sindy McKay-Swerdlove delivering a startling and emotional performance as Dr. Bearing.

A stellar cast highlights William Inge's classic play about loneliness on the expansive prairie and a desolate diner on a highway outside of Kansas City. Hayley Georgeanne Cariker and Michael Wayne Beck turn in exemplary performances as the low-grade saloon singer and the wild, untamed cowboy who all but envelopes her with an obsessive desire to marry her and take her back to his ranch in Montana.

A dark horse candidate with little political acumen lacking in smarts is battling to become the Republican candidate for president, while keeping silent one in a series of illicit affairs. Sound familiar? In 'Fifteen Men In a Smoke-Filled Room,' playwright Colin Speer Crowley focuses on the candidacy of Warren Gamaliel Harding, who would become the 29th President of the United States. The play examines his loveless marriage and lack of appetite for the political machinations that would eventually result in his election.

The title of All My Sons, Arthur Miller's riveting play of guilt, heartbreak, and tragedy, refers to 21 young World War II combat pilots, who were needlessly killed when cracked cylinder heads were unknowingly installed in their airplanes. The blame for this lays at the feet of Joe Keller, a successful manufacturer who decided that since there was so much pressure on him to produce much needed airplane parts, that he decided to push the faulty heads through, instructing his factory manager, Steve Deever, to paint over the cracks and ship them out anyway. But Joe allowed Steve to accept the blame after the tragedies and is now languishing in prison while Joe has gotten off scot-free.

The Santa Paula Theater Center will present Agatha Christie's tantalizing whodunit The Unexpected Guest from June 24 - July 31 with performances Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 pm and Sunday matinees at 4 pm at the Santa Paula Theater Center, 125 South 7th Street in Santa Paula.  Tickets for The Unexpected Guest are $18 for Adults, $15 for Seniors & Students, and $12 for Children 12 & under.  Reservations can be made by calling (805) 525-4645 or online via www.santapaulatheatercenter.com

'The very powerful are always fools,' intones Kit Maxwell, the one character with a conscience in Jason Wells' 2009 black comedy, Men of Tortuga, a taut and ironic thriller about corporate terrorists conspiring to plan a dastardly assassination. The show opened at the Elite Theatre Company in Oxnard last weekend and plays through May 15.

Santa Paula Theater Center presents THE OTHER PLACE by Sharr White as the initial offering of its 2016 The Masters Season. The Pulitzer Prize nominated drama will run now through March 13, with regular performances at 8 pm on Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees at 2:30 pm, at the Santa Paula Theater Center, 125 South 7th St., Santa Paula, CA 93060. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Santa Paula Theater Center presents THE OTHER PLACE by SHARR WHITE as the initial offering of its 2016 The Masters Season. The Pulitzer Prize nominated drama will run from Feb. 5 through Mar. 13 with regular performances at 8 pm on Friday and Saturday Evenings and Sunday Matinees at 2:30 pm at the Santa Paula Theater Center, 125 South 7th Street in Santa Paula, CA 93060.