About the Theatre
Conejo Players Theatre's Mission is to share in providing the community with a year-round schedule of affordable live theatre produced to serve the cultural, educational, and entertainment needs of the community. To welcome and provide an avocational opportunity for all volunteers interested in the theatre arts to participate in the many activities of community theatre.
The Conejo Players were born in 1958 with a “Let’s start a theatre” attitude, a meager treasury, and a handful of volunteers to build a stage in a barn and put on shows. Within seven years — and a history of some 20-plus productions — that attitude evolved into: “Let’s build a theatre!” With the generosity of the Janss Foundation and a no-interest construction loan, a 126-seat theatre opened at the current S. Moorpark Road location in July 1964. In 1974, on the 10th anniversary of the building (and nearly 50 productions later), the mortgage was paid. And after eight more years (that’s another 40 Mainstage shows and eight Conejo Afternoon Theater [CAT] productions), the urge to grow lead to a new lobby, new restrooms, new theatre seats, and an increased capacity of 185.
Within the next decade (more than 40 more productions and 30 CAT shows later!), the space demanded a workshop and rehearsal/storage areas. In 1989, an 1,800-square-foot expansion was added to the back of the theatre; prop, set storage, and scene shop areas were all greatly enhanced. Ten more years pass — that’s over 60 Mainstage productions, 35 CAT shows, and three Children’s Theatre productions — and the interior of the auditorium began showing its age. The need to refurbish, improve, and remodel with air conditioning, improved access, and new seats became the “Reaching for the Stars” campaign. Due to several generous donations, the Phase One remodel was completed in 2002. And in 2005, the desire to enhance the Conejo Players’ musical theatre capabilities lead to construction of an orchestra pit prior to the opening musical of the ’06 season. In 2015, a Capital Campaign resulted in the purchase of a brand-new heating and air conditioning system, as well as several other needed improvements. Just two years later, further donations resulted in increased technical capabilities by way of a new lightboard; new LED stage lights; and a new soundboard. And in Fall 2018 — due to the incredible generosity of our patrons and members — we unveiled fresh, modern bathroom facilities complete with refurbished plumbing. At CPT, we continue these fundraising efforts with a keen eye toward the future.
The Conejo Players season includes 5 Mainstage shows, 2 Youth shows (play & musical), an Improv Team and Youth Improv Team. They also hold a variety of special events and workshops.
First Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Los Angeles Awards; LEGALLY BLONDE Leads Best Musical!
by BWW Awards - December 01, 2025
The first standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Los Angeles Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...
A CHORUS LINE Begins In November At Conejo Players Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - October 23, 2025
Conejo Players Theatre will present A Chorus Line from November 7–30, 2025, honoring the Tony Award-winning musical’s 50th anniversary. Directed and choreographed by Mirian Durrie-Kirsch....
Disney's DESCENDANTS THE MUSICAL Comes to The Conejo Players Theatre
by Stephi Wild - September 11, 2025
The Conejo Players Theatre will kick off spooky season with Disney’s legendary villains and their teenaged kids in Descendants the Musical! Learn more here!...
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS Comes to the Conejo Players Theatre
by Stephi Wild - July 30, 2025
Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express will come to the Conejo Players Theatre in Thousand Oaks, CA. This show opens on August 8, 2025 with a red carpet celebration before the performance and a post show reception open to the audience. ...
THE BOOK OF WILL To Have Ventura County Premiere At Conejo Players
by A.A. Cristi - May 16, 2025
Conejo Players Theatre will present Ventura Country Premiere of the historical dramatic comedy, The Book of Will. Told with great humor and accessibility, The Book of Will celebrates the Theater, and the power and legacy of great art.
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VELVETEEN RABBIT Comes to Thousand Oaks
by Stephi Wild - April 24, 2025
Conejo Players Theatre has announced that their new youth play The Velveteen Rabbit: A Toy Story opens next month in Thousand Oaks. Learn more about the upcoming performance here!...
Conejo Valley Comedy Festival Announces Inaugural Event
by A.A. Cristi - January 24, 2025
The Conejo Valley Comedy Festival will debut its first-ever event, bringing two unforgettable days of stand-up, improv, and family-friendly fun to the heart of Conejo Valley. We are bringing comedians from the biggest stages (e.g. Netflix, Comedy Central, Hulu, Late Night with Conan O'Brien), to The...
HOTBED HOTEL to Open Conejo Players 67th Season
by Blair Ingenthron - December 28, 2024
The Conejo Players Theatre will present Hotbed Hotel, directed by Kimberly Demmary, beginning next month. Learn more about the production and how to get tickets here!...
THE PAJAMA GAME Returns to Conejo Players Theatre
by Stephi Wild - October 16, 2024
The Pajama Game is a timeless comedic love story that won the 1955 Tony for Best Musical, launched Bob Fosse’s career as a Broadway choreographer, and won the 2006 Tony for Best Revival of a Musical. ...
Past Shows
A Chorus Line
11/7 - 11/30/2025
A Chorus Line at Conejo Players Theatre November 7, 2025 - November 30, 2025 •Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00pm. •Sundays at 2:00pm. •Saturday, Nov 22 ...
Disney's Descendants The Musical
10/3 - 10/12/2025
Based on the popular Disney Channel Original Movies, Disney's Descendants: The Musical is a musical jam-packed with comedy, adventure, Disney characters, and hit songs!
Murder on the Orient Express
8/8 - 8/30/2025
Ken Ludwig's clever adaptation of the Agatha Christie classic boasts all the glamour, intrigue and suspense of Dame Agatha's celebrated novel, with a healthy dose
The Book of Will
6/6 - 6/28/2025
After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their ...
Velveteen Rabbit: A Toy Story
5/2 - 5/11/2025
Margery Williams’s classic toy story gets a vibrant retelling in this brand new adaptation. When the Child gets the Rabbit for Christmas, she is at ...
Anastasia: The Musical
3/21 - 4/13/2025
Show Times: Mar. 21 - Apr. 13, 2025 Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00pm. Sundays at 2:00pm. Thursday, March 27 at 8:00pm. Saturday Apr 5 at 2:00pm. ...
Hotbed Hotel
1/10 - 2/1/2025
Show Times Jan 10, 2025 – Feb 1, 2025. Thursday (January 16th), Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM; Saturdays matinee (January 18th and 25th) and Sundays at ...
A Christmas Carol
12/8
Show Times Dec 8, 2024 at 6pm About the show Presented through special arrangement with Readers Theatre Directed by Jené Hernandez Produced by Paul Babb, Scott Quintard Conejo ...
The Pajama Game
11/8 - 12/1/2024
Conditions at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory are anything but peaceful as sparks fly between new superintendent, Sid Sorokin, and Babe Williams, union leader.
The Spongebob Musical: Youth Edition
10/4 - 10/13/2024
The Spongebob Musical: Youth Edition Description: When the citizens of Bikini Bottom discover that a volcano will soon erupt and destroy their humble home, SpongeBob ...
The Glass Menagerie
8/23 - 9/14/2024
Amanda Wingfield is a faded remnant of Southern gentility who now lives in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son and daughter.
macbitches
8/11
Readers Theatre Presents macbitches, written by Sophie McIntosh.
RENT
6/14 - 7/7/2024
Rent Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson Directed by: Shawn Adams-Lanz Produced by: Courtney Potter Music Directors: Kyle DeTarnowsky and Erin Fagundes Choreographer: Danielle ...
Catch Me If You Can
11/10 - 12/3/2023
Catch Me If You Can Book by Terrence McNally Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Marc Shaiman Scott Wittman Based on the DreamWorks Motion Picture ...
Romeo and Juliet
9/8 - 9/17/2023
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told By William Shakespeare, Adapted by Patrick McMinn Presented through special arrangement with Conejo Artist Theatre ...
The Mousetrap
7/21 - 8/12/2023
The Mousetrap, By Agatha Christie Presented through special arrangement with Concord Theatricals Directed by: Jim Diderrich Produced by: Sarah Ely After a local woman is ...
Calendar Girls
5/26 - 6/17/2023
Calendar Girls, By Tim Firth Based on the Miramax motion picture by Juliette Towhidi and Tim Firth Presented through special arrangement with Concord Theatricals Directed ...
The Secret Garden
3/23 - 4/16/2023
Presented through special arrangement with CONCORD THEATRICALS Directed by: Dana Marley-Kolb Produced by: Priscilla Losey & Sarah Ely Music Director: Alison Friedman Rosenblum Asst. Music ...
Don’t Drink the Water
1/13 - 2/3/2023
Don’t Drink the Water , By Woody Allen Presented through special arrangement with Concord Theatricals Directed by: John Eslick Produced by: Carla Ames Costume Designer: ...
Guys and Dolls
11/17 - 12/16/2018
Conejo Players Theatre wraps up its historic 60th Anniversary Season with the classic Frank Loesser musical "Guys and Dolls"! Set in Damon Runyon's mythical New ...
The Phantom Tollbooth, Jr.
10/20 - 10/28/2018
Adapted from the beloved, award-winning children's book by Norton Juster, "The Phantom Tollbooth, Jr." is an inventive musical featuring a melodic score by Arnold Black; ...
West Side Story
7/20 - 8/19/2018
Conejo Players Theatre presents one of the most memorable musicals of all time -- "West Side Story." The world's greatest love story, "Romeo and Juliet," ...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5/18 - 6/9/2018
Based on the novel by Ken Kesey, and written by Dale Wasserman, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" follows R.P. McMurphy -- a charming rogue ...
Chess
11/17 - 12/17/2017
In this rock musical, the ancient game becomes a metaphor for romantic rivalries, competitive gamesmanship, super power politics, and international intrigue. The pawns in this ...
Disney's My Son Pinocchio Jr.
10/14 - 10/22/2017
Join the Blue Fairy, Stromboli and a lively cast of characters as Geppetto journeys beyond the toyshop to discover the meaning of family. When the ...
A Murder is Announced
9/8 - 9/30/2017
An announcement in the local paper states the time and place when a murder is to occur in Miss Blacklock's Victorian house. The victim is ...
Young Frankenstein
7/14 - 8/13/2017
Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced "Fronk-en-steen") inherits his family's estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked sidekick, Igor (pronounced ...
Social Security
5/19 - 6/10/2017
This hilarious comedy gives us a married couple earning a living as art dealers. Their domestic tranquility is shattered upon the arrival of the wife's ...
Brighton Beach Memoirs
1/9 - 1/31/2015
Eugene Jerome dreams of baseball and girls ... but in his everyday life, he has to cope with the mundane existence of family life in ...
Monty Python's Spamalot
11/15 - 12/14/2013
Fresh from Broadway and featuring the fantastically irreverent humor of Monty Python, including songs like "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life," SPAMALOT retells ...
Disney's Aladdin Jr.
10/5 - 10/13/2013
Welcome to Agrabah, City of Enchantment, where every beggar has a story and every camel has a tail! All of your favorite characters are here ...
Noises Off
8/30 - 9/21/2013
Called "quite possibly funniest farce ever written," NOISES OFF takes you backstage with a manic cast of itinerant actors as they prepare, open, and tour ...
A Streetcar Named Desire
5/10 - 6/1/2013
When Blanche DuBois, a fading Southern belle whose pretensions to virtue only thinly mask her alcoholism and delusions of grandeur, arrives at her sister Stella's ...
Forever Plaid
5/12 - 5/14/2013
This deliciously goofy 50s revue centers on four young, eager singers killed in a car crash on the way to their first big concert. Now ...
Damn Yankees
3/15 - 4/13/2013
In this classic Faustian comedy, middle-aged baseball fanatic Joe Boyd trades his soul to the charming but devious Mr. Applegate - also known as the ...
45 Seconds from Broadway
1/11 - 2/2/2013
What do you get when you mix the comic brilliance of Neil Simon with an upscale society dame in search of an intricately double-brewed cup ...
Videos
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BLUE MAN GROUP
Bank of America Performing Arts Center (5/8 - 5/10) | |
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A Winter's Eve Concert with David Arkenstone and Friends in Oceanside, California, December 17, 2025!
Sunshine Brooks Theater (12/17 - 12/17) | |
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KINKY BOOTS
Bank of America Performing Arts Center (12/12 - 12/14) | |
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MRS. DOUBTFIRE
Bank of America Performing Arts Center (5/28 - 5/31) | |
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The Wonderful Winter of Oz
Bank of America Performing Arts Center (12/12 - 12/28) | |
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Great Expectations
Rubicon Theatre Company at The Karyn Jackson Theatre (12/2 - 12/21) | |
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