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Preview: JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Center Stage


by Anna Jensen - November 09, 2025

What to expect from JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Center Stage...

Youthclusive Will Present THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL


by Nicole Rosky - February 23, 2025

Youthclusive Inc., the youth-founded and youth-led nonprofit performing arts organization, is making waves with its inaugural production of Nickelodeon's The SpongeBob Musical....

Past Shows

The Effect
The Effect
1/16 - 1/17/2026


HappySad Theatre Company is thrilled to announce their inaugural performance of The Effect by Lucy Prebble. The Effect is running January 16th and 17th at ...

Jagged Little Pill
Jagged Little Pill
11/14 - 11/23/2025


Inspired by the themes and emotions laid bare in Alanis Morissette’s award-winning album, Jagged Little Pill is an original story about pain, healing, and empowerment. ...

Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors
12/5 - 12/8/2024


Need a break from reality? Take a trip out of this world with Lights Up! as they kick start their seventh season with two smash-hit, ...

The Father by Florian Zeller


"The Father," a gripping and emotionally intense play by Florian Zeller, delves into the complexities of dementia from the perspective of an elderly man named Andréi.  ...

The Father by Florian Zeller


"The Father," a gripping and emotionally intense play by Florian Zeller, delves into the complexities of dementia from the perspective of an elderly man named Andréi.  ...

Miss You Like Hell
Miss You Like Hell
11/4 - 11/13/2022


When a whip-smart, deeply imaginative teenager agrees to take a road trip with her free-spirited Latina mother, neither can imagine where it will take them. ...

Puffs
Puffs
5/13 - 5/15/2022


For seven years a certain boy wizard went to a certain Wizard School and conquered evil. This, however, is not his story. This is the ...

Tick, Tick... BOOM!
Tick, Tick... BOOM!
4/29 - 5/1/2022


Out of the Box Theatre Company presents Tick, Tick... BOOM! Before Rent, there was Tick, Tick... Boom!. This autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, the Pulitzer ...

MTI'S All Together Now
MTI'S All Together Now
11/13 - 11/14/2021


Created by Musical Theatre International as a fundraiser for theatre organizations across the country, MTIs ALL TOGETHER NOW! is a musical revue featuring songs from ...

Opera SB Chrisman Studio Artist Spring Showcase


Don't miss the Chrisman Studio Artist Spring ShowcaseLive at Center Stage Theater!Only two performances - Saturday, June 5 and Sunday, June 6 at 2:30PMLimited Capacity ...

Lifelines + Re:Forming
"Lifelines + Re:Forming"
12/4 - 12/31/2020


Lifeline + Re:FormingA live streamed collaborative performance, plus Lifelines film premiere broadcast from Center Stage Theater in Santa Barbaracreated bybrooke smiley, Sam Bourgault, Mark Hirsch ...

American Psycho
American Psycho
11/15 - 11/24/2019


Based on the electrifying novel by Bret Easton Ellis, the musical tells the story of Patrick Bateman, a young and handsome Wall Street banker with ...

Love
Love
10/5 - 10/6/2019


UCSB Initiative for New & Imagined Works & Center Stage Theater present Love by Kate Cortesi a staged reading Directed by Maggie Mixsell Starring Joe ...

Fun Home
Fun Home
4/5 - 4/14/2019


Out of the Box Theatre Company presents Fun Home, the blazingly honest memoir of Alison, a graphic novelist exploring her youth in a loving, dysfunctional ...

Amélie
Amélie
11/9 - 11/18/2018


One woman decides to change the world by changing the lives of the people she knows in Amélie, a fanciful modern-day fairy tale. Embark on ...

Green Day's American Idiot
Green Day's American Idiot
4/6 - 4/15/2018


Lost and disconnected in modern-day America, Johnny, Tunny, and Will struggle to find meaning in their lives. The three twenty-somethings flee the constraints of their ...

Possibilities, Dreams & Actions


The Dance with Harout Performance Company comes back for their third year at Center Stage Theater presenting: Possibilities, Dreams & Actions. Watch these characters live ...

Dear Elizabeth


A play in letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and back again. This show is a benefit for Center Stage Theater with a reception ...

Anima
Anima
5/31

Mother Goose Tales


Join student Performing Groups from Inspire Dance Santa Barbara for a sweet and heart felt telling of your favorite Mother Goose nursery rhymes on May ...

Tales From Beatrix Potter
Tales From Beatrix Potter
5/26 - 5/27/2017


A One Act Ballet...

Survivor Stories
Survivor Stories
5/21 - 5/22/2017


Inspirational, funny, poignant and moving stories of overcoming adversity and conquering life’s biggest obstacles. Featuring performances by Emmy award winner Joe Spano, and former Speaking ...

High Fidelity
High Fidelity
4/20 - 4/30/2017


Meet Rob Gordon, a thirty-something, indie record store owner who knows everything there is to know about music but nothing about how to have a ...

Celebration of Stories
5/19 - 5/20/2013


A literary stew, a blend of great tales including a spicy new story by T.C. Boyle...

Next to Normal
Next to Normal
5/2 - 5/12/2013


Next to Normal is the acclaimed, groundbreaking musical "that pushe[d] Broadway in new directions" (Rolling Stone). With a thrilling contemporary score, this emotional powerhouse of ...


New stories from Ron Carlson, a celebrated American short story writer and from the more recently discovered and lauded Edith Pearlman, winner of the National ...

Bill W. and DR. Bob
4/4 - 4/13/2013


The amazing and often humorous story of the two men who pioneered Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as the story of their wives, who founded Al ...

Circle Mirror Transformation
3/21 - 3/30/2013


An absorbing, unblinking and sharply funny play which traces the lives of a handful of small-town Vermont residents who gather each week for an acting ...

Configuration
3/9 - 3/16/2013


A fun show for the whole family to enjoy, featuring the pre-professional Student Companies from Dance Arts. Emotional Contemporary, energetic Hip Hop, sassy Broadway, and ...


This is a monthly flamenco performance open to all flamenco dance and music lovers. The cast will change from month to month giving audiances a ...

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
2/14 - 2/24/2013


An audacious mix of historical fact and fiction, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson redefines America's controversial seventh president -- the man who invented the Democratic Party, ...

John & Jen
John & Jen
10/4 - 10/14/2012


Set against the background of a changing America between 1950 and 1990, this truly original musical takes a look at the complexities of relationships between ...

Re:Vision
Re:Vision
9/28 - 9/30/2012


Re:Vision will feature the choreography of Devyn Duex and Emily Tatomer, in three distinct works united by their use of dance as a medium of ...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
9/13 - 9/23/2012


Tennessee Williams' 1955 Pulitzer Prize winning play, "Cat on A Hot Tin Roof," remains one of the American theater world's most jarring and provocative tragedies ...

Queen Undaunted: Margaret of Anjou


Queen Undaunted: Margaret of Anjou, a one woman show gives us Margaret according to Shakespeare. She is the only person to appear in four of ...

A Night at the Opera in Stories and Music


Murder, suicide, a bullfighter, a princess, disguise balls, women dressed as men—it's just a typical Night at the Opera. A unique and captivating performance blending ...

Shadows: An Original Musical
Shadows: An Original Musical
8/17 - 8/18/2012


When the shroom-addicted Mario finds himself forever lost in a glitch, it is time for his failure of a younger brother to step into his ...

Videos


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Ensemble Theatre Company (4/30 - 5/10)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in Santa Barbara Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre (3/27 - 4/12)
Internationally Acclaimed Dance Company Parsons Dance Performs April 18 and 19 in Santa Monica in Santa Barbara Internationally Acclaimed Dance Company Parsons Dance Performs April 18 and 19 in Santa Monica
The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage (4/18 - 4/19)
Hadestown (Non-Equity) in Santa Barbara Hadestown (Non-Equity)
Granada Theatre (4/28 - 4/29)
Urinetown in Santa Barbara Urinetown
Santa Maria Civic Theater (5/15 - 5/31)
Whole Lotta Love - Bay Area in Santa Barbara Whole Lotta Love - Bay Area
The California Theatre of Santa Rosa (2/7 - 2/7)
HADESTOWN in Santa Barbara HADESTOWN
The Granada Theatre (4/28 - 4/29)
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