A Night with Janis Joplin
4/1 - 4/26/2026
The whiskey-soaked, soul-shaking voice of a generation comes alive in this electrifying concert experience. Part theatre, part rock-and-roll celebration, this high-energy production dives into the ...
Hershey Felder as MONSIEUR CHOPIN
4/30 - 5/10/2026
Hershey Felder as Monsieur Chopin features the romantic story and music of the Polish pianist-composer Fryderyk Chopin, set in Chopin’s Parisian salon, where he will ...
Every Brilliant Thing
6/3 - 6/21/2026
What makes life worth living? A child starts a list of every brilliant thing in the world, hoping to help their mother through depression. As ...
Ensemble Theatre Company Adds Performance of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JANE AUSTEN, ABRIDGED
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 20, 2025
Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara will present a special added performance of the West Coast premiere of The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged in honor of the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth....
Ensemble Theatre Company to Welcome Six New Members to its Board of Directors
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 04, 2025
Ensemble Theatre Company has appointed six community and business leaders to its Board of Directors: Adam Berger, Dan Burnham, Dan Cerf, Gary Justice, Ellen Robinson, and Helene Segal....
National Theatre Live Productions to be Screened by Ensemble Theatre Company
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 11, 2025
Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara is partnering with the National Theatre of Great Britain to bring National Theatre Live productions to Santa Barbara audiences beginning in the 2025-2026 season. Learn more!...
HERSHEY FELDER AS MONSIEUR CHOPIN to be Presented at Ensemble Theatre Company
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 28, 2025
Ensemble Theatre Company has added Hershey Felder as MONSIEUR CHOPIN for a strictly limited run of 14 performances. Learn more about the run and see how to purchase tickets....
Photos: JUSTICE: A NEW MUSICAL at Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara
by Stephi Wild - June 06, 2025
Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara is now presenting the Southern California premiere of JUSTICE: A NEW MUSICAL. Check out all new photos here!...
THE SHARK IS BROKEN and More Set for Ensemble Theatre Company 2025/26 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 23, 2025
Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara, a LORT member and the region's premier professional theatre, is launching a season of bold exploration, challenging audiences to reconsider the art of storytelling. Learn more!...
JUSTICE: A NEW MUSICAL to be Presented at Ensemble Theatre Company
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 09, 2025
Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara will bring a groundbreaking new musical about the women who shaped the highest court in the land, the Southern California premiere of JUSTICE: A NEW MUSICAL. Learn more!...
Photos: RACHIMANINOFF AND THE TSAR at Ensemble Theatre Company
by Emmy Rice - April 04, 2025
Production photos have been released for the limited engagement of Rachmaninoff and the Tsar at Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara (ETC). Check here for the photos! ...
BWW Q&A: Jay Martel on PARENTS IN CHAINS at Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara
by Joshua Wright - March 10, 2025
JAY MARTEL has won Emmy, Peabody, Writers Guild of America, and American Comedy awards for his writing. He served as a showrunner, executive producer and writer for the award winning sketch show Key & Peele. ...
Spotlight: PARENTS IN CHAINS at Ensemble Theatre Company
by BWW Special Offer - March 10, 2025
Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara and J. Todd Harris present PARENTS IN CHAINS- A new comedy about texts, treks, sex, and empty nests. Written by Emmy and Peabody award-winner Jay Martel, Directed by Andy Fickman.
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Past Shows
SEARED
6/8 - 6/25/2023
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
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
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
11/30 - 12/17/2017
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
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 ...
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 ...
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
2/9 - 2/26/2017
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 ...
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
6/6 - 6/23/2013
- Terrence McNally; dir: Saundra McClain....
The Year of Magical Thinking
4/4 - 4/21/2013
- Joan Didion; dir: Jenny Sullivan....
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 ...
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Petty Rocks and Kid Galaga
The California Theatre of Santa Rosa (1/22 - 1/22) | |
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Always Patsy Cline
Santa Maria Civic Theater (1/9 - 1/25)
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Hadestown (Non-Equity)
Rabobank Arena, Theater & Convention Center (4/2 - 4/2) | |
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Million Dollar Quartet
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre (1/30 - 3/8) | |
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre (3/27 - 4/12) | |
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Hershey Felder as MONSIEUR CHOPIN
Ensemble Theatre Company (4/30 - 5/10) | |
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Whole Lotta Love - Bay Area
The California Theatre of Santa Rosa (2/7 - 2/7) | |
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