SIERRA MADRE PLAYHOUSE

Bob Baker’s Nutcracker , Bob Baker Marionette Theater’s (BBMT) delightful and spellbinding 1969 marionette adaptation of the beloved ballet classic, makes its highly anticipated Sierra ...

Singer/actress Kim Eberhardt returns to Sierra Madre Playhouse with Holly Dolly Christmas , a special holiday edition of her acclaimed show Love , Dolly , ...

The acclaimed Tesserae Baroque Ensemble returns to Sierra Madre Playhouse to present an intimate evening of exquisite Renaissance music from the late 16th-century Ferrarese Court, ...

The Tesserae Baroque Ensemble will perform a selection of intricate Renaissance vocal music from the 16th-century Ferrarese court at Sierra Madre Playhouse. The concert features ...

The Raga Trio , which deftly merges string traditions from the East and West to create a fascinating confluence of musical styles, appears on Sunday, ...

Celebrated contemporary music ensemble Wild Up presents a range of chamber and solo works by female composers with deep links to Los Angeles in the ...

The historic Sierra Madre Playhouse, an intimate performing arts center noted for its eclectic programming, presents the world premiere of ¡Pasaje! , a n enchanting ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse proudly expands its slate of live performances with the introduction of Dance @ The Playhouse. Its inaugural dance presentation features Viver Brasil, ...

Cuban percussionist Luis Conte and his Super Bien Septet heat things up at Sierra Madre Playhouse, transforming the historic venue into a jazz club straight ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse presents a unique collaboration between TAIKOPROJECT and Gamelan Merdu Kumala, bringing together Japanese taiko drumming and traditional Indonesian gamelan music. This performance ...

Los Angeles-based TAIKOPROJECT, the first American taiko group to win the prestigious Tokyo International Taiko Contest, partners with Gamelan Merdu Kumala, a Southern California-based gamelan ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse includes in its September programming Film @ The Playhouse: Silent Comedy All-Stars, a double bill of silent film comedies featuring some of ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse’s popular Jazz @ the Playhouse series spotlights pianist/composer Yuko Mabuchi, who pays tribute to jazz classics while embracing a broad spectrum of ...

The historic Sierra Madre Playhouse presents Music @The Playhouse: Jett Kwong on Saturday, September 14, 2024, 7:30 pm. Kwong is an “experimental pop artist” ( ...

The historic Sierra Madre Playhouse presents Music @The Playhouse: Jett Kwong on Saturday, September 14, 2024, 7:30 pm. Kwong is an “experimental pop artist” ( ...

The historic Sierra Madre Playhouse launches a new partnership with contemporary music ensemble Wild Up, becoming the ensemble’s first-ever long-term East Los Angeles home. For ...

The Dave Tull Trio swings by the Sierra Madre Playhouse on Sunday, September 8, 2024, 7:30 pm. Tull, a premiere songwriter, is also considered among ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse’s Jazz @ The Playhouse series features the return of jazz/funk/soul guitarist Greg Porée on Saturday, September 7, 2024, 7:30 pm. His soul-stirring ...

Clayton Cameron’s Rhythmos Quintet , led by drummer Clayton Cameron, known as the “Brush Master,” appears at Sierra Madre Playhouse on Sunday, September 1, 7:30 ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse , a dynamic and intimate performing arts center noted for its eclectic programming, welcomes eminent Hindustani vocalist GAAYATRI in an unprecedented program ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse , a dynamic and intimate performing arts center in the heart of the San Gabriel Valley, launches its Fall 2024 programming on ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse presents Jason Robert Brown's acclaimed musical The Last Five Years , a captivating and emotionally charged musical journey that explores the complex ...

Legally Blonde JR. follows the transformation of Elle Woods as she tackles stereotypes, snobbery and scandal in pursuit of her dreams. When Elle's boyfriend, Warner, ...

Cori Cable Kidder is the favorite singing star of Sierra Madre Playhouse audiences. First introduced to us in 2015, when she played an extended run ...

The Right Is Ours!  is about the extraordinary friendship of two women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, whose efforts spurred the creation of the ...

Join us September 8 - October 8, 2023 at Sierra Madre Playhouse, in the charming village of Sierra Madre, California, just 10 minutes east of Pasadena, as ...

The title Mr. Yunioshi refers to the name of the character portrayed by Mickey Rooney in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s, directed by Blake ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse presents the fourth event in our ongoing series of true personal storytelling,  Stories @ The Playhouse ! Our fourth show's theme is  ...

Based on the provocative tale of suspense, horror and repressed sexuality, this adaptation gives the famous story yet another turn of its own. A young ...

For the first time ever, Sierra Madre Playhouse presents  Love, Dolly , the #1 Dolly Parton tribute act on the West Coast, on its stage! ...

A new event for our storytelling series,  Stories @ The Playhouse , is here! Sierra Madre Playhouse presents  Best of BackStory , an evening of ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse presents a brand new series,  Improv @ SMP , produced by Stidley Productions, and its first event,  Whose Line Is It Any ...

Acoustic grunge performed by Return to Dust (May 26 and 27);  Fencer (May 26); My Veronica (May 27). 8 p.m. both nights....

The title Mr. Yunioshi refers to the name of the character portrayed by Mickey Rooney in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s, directed by Blake ...

The title Mr. Yunioshi refers to the name of the character portrayed by Mickey Rooney in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s, directed by Blake ...

Starring Mike Farrell. Written by George Shea. Directed by Kristen Sanderson. Presented by Sierra Madre Playhouse. Dr. Keeling’s Curve tells the story of the life ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse presents the third event in a series, Stories@ The Playhouse on Monday, April 17, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. The event consists of ...

  On the sidewalk stage outside Sierra Madre Playhouse at 87 W. Sierra Madre Boulevard, Sierra Madre, CA 91024, there will be a full day ...

The title Di Lady Di refers of course to Lady Diana Spencer, the teenaged bride of the future monarch of the United Kingdom who would ...

  The Elizabeth of the title Call Me Elizabeth is Elizabeth Taylor. Please, don’t call her Liz.  Considered at the height of her fame to ...

The title Mr. Yunioshi refers to the name of the character portrayed by Mickey Rooney in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s, directed by Blake ...

Cold Tofu, the nation’s first and longest-running Asian American improv and sketch comedy troupe, will perform at Sierra Madre Playhouse on Sunday, January 29, 2023 ...

Billie Holiday (1915-1959) was a trail-blazing musical artist, known as perhaps the first female vocalist to use her voice in the style of jazz improvisation. ...

One of the biggest box-office hits and critical successes in the history of Sierra Madre Playhouse was its 2015 production of the musical Always….Patsy Cline. ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse presents the second event in a projected serie s , Stories @ The Playhouse on Monday, December 5, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. ...

When astronomer Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she doesnt begin by looking through a telescope. She joins a ...

Sierra Madre Playhouses Fall mainstage production is Silent Sky. The play by Lauren Gunderson celebrates the life and career of pioneering female astronomer Henrietta Leavitt ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse initiates the first event in a projected series, Stories @ The Playhouse on Monday, August 1, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. The event ...

Written by Lauren Yee. Directed by Tim Dang. Produced for Sierra Madre Playhouse by Gary Lamb. For nearly 20 years, playwright Lauren Yees father Larry ...

John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865) was notable on several accounts. He was a successful and wealthy actor, and member of a celebrated show business family (son ...

Dr. Mary Walker (1832-1919) was the first female surgeon in the U.S. Army, a suffragist, an abolitionist, a prohibitionist, endured four months in a Confederate ...

Albert Einsteins fight for the successful recognition of his theories has had a profound effect on how people around the world have lived their lives ...

Staged reading of a play. In Outside Mullingar, Anthony and Rosemary are two introverted misfits straddling 40. Anthony has spent his entire life on a ...

Staged reading of a play.The Worlds Strongest Librarian is a play about the power of books, muscles and human kindness. Josh is the children's librarian ...

Billie Holiday (1915-1959) was a trail-blazing musical artist, known as perhaps the first female vocalist to use her voice in the style of jazz improvisation. ...

Award-winning actor/director/playwright and longtime Sierra Madrean, Frank Ferrante, recreates his PBS, New York and London acclaimed portrayal of legendary comedian Groucho Marx in this fast-paced ...

A virtual staged reading.Ruby decades ago fled Kentucky to live in the desert of New Mexico, where she lived on her own terms. Now elderly ...

Sunday, February 7 at 3:00 p.m. PST.Sierra Madre Playhouse continues its series of FREE online events on February 7 with a live actor panel featuring ...

One of the most popular productions ever in Sierra Madre Playhouses long history has been The Marvelous Wonderettes, which was a box-office smash for us ...

Virtual event. This short play will be on YouTube, followed by a Q&A on Zoom (Zoom tickets are limited). Written by Doug Cooney. Directed by ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse Donald Margulies...

This event is online. Virtual staged reading of a play.In Donald Margulies Collected Stories, grad student Lisa is thrilled to be under the tutelage of ...

This is a virtual staged reading of a play. In The Realistic Joneses, we meet Bob and Jennifer and their new neighbors, John and Pony, ...

One of the most popular productions ever in Sierra Madre Playhouses long history has been The Joy Luck Club, which was a box-office smash for ...

The lines between truth and fiction blur with hilarious and moving results in David Henry Hwang's unreliable memoir. Asian-American playwright DHH, fresh off his Tony ...

Virtual staged reading of the play by Stephen Sachs. Directed by Christian Lebano. Starring Nancy Youngblut and John Rafter Lee. This event will be the ...

Staged reading of the play by Stephen Sachs.Maude, a fifty-something unemployed bartender living in a a trailer park, has bought a painting for a few ...

An ageing woman receives her Medicare card and is expected to don a cloak of invisibility, in the marginalization that Society will expect her to ...

Staged reading of a play by Lisa Loomer. Cafe Vida follows the men and women who work at Homeboy Industries. Chabela and Luz are rival ...

Instead of performing Charles Dickens' beloved holiday classic for the umpteenth time, actors decide to perform every Christmas story ever told -- plus Christmas traditions ...

Staged reading of a play. Written by Neil Simon. Directed by Christian Lebano.. Rose and Walsh follows two great literary figures and the depth and ...

Christian Lebano has written his own stage adaptation of Little Women specifically for this production. It combines a cast of established professionals in the adult ...

The next selection of the Off the Page Series of monthly staged readings will be Silent Sky.When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory ...

San Francisco, 1987. A quartet of Chinese women meet regularly at their Joy Luck Club to play Mah Jong and socialize. When the groups founder ...

Susan Kim, adapted from the novel by Amy Tan Sierra Madre Playhouse...

Susan Kim, adapted from the novel by Amy Tan Sierra Madre Playhouse...

The September selection for the ongoing Off The Page series of staged readings at Sierra Madre Playhouse is Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang.The lines ...

David Henry Hwang Sierra Madre Playhouse...

Staged reading of the comedy by Herb Gardner. Directed by Cate Caplin.Unconventional Murray is the uncle to precocious nephew, Nick. Tired of writing cheap comedy ...

Staged reading of a play. Written by Thomas Gibbons. Directed by Barbara Schofield.Sterling North, the new Black director of the Morris Foundation precipitates turmoil when ...

One of the most unique musicals ever created, the original production of DAMES AT SEA pulled off the feat of creating a magnificent musical extravaganza ...

Staged reading of a play by Lanford Wilson. Directed by Christian Lebano. Book of Days is about the people of a small Missouri town confronted ...

AKT Youth Academy at Sierra Madre Playhouse presentsGilbert and SullivansThe Pirates of PenzanceDirected by Alison Eliel KalmusSaturdays May 18 and May 25 at 2:30 and ...

Holly, who is escaping her troubled life in New York, has come to stay with her aunt, artist M.J. Adams whose home is on a ...

Stuart Little is a mouse born into a human family in New York City. Though his stature is appropriately small for a mouse, he displays ...

A staged reading of Side Man will be performed as a selection in Sierra Madre Playhouses ongoing Off the Page series of play readings.The story: ...

Doris and Me is subtitled One Mans Obsession with Doris Day. That man is Scott Dreier, the co-writer and star of this show. Its not ...

As Holocaust survivor and the worlds most renowned hunter of Nazi war criminals Simon Wiesenthal is about to retire, he recounts for an audience the ...

Mitch Albom, on his graduation day from Brandeis University, promises to stay in touch with his beloved sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz. Mitch gets busy with ...

At 35, Esther is lonely. A skilled African-American seamstress in 1905 Manhattan, she makes exquisite undergarments for clients including a sincere socialite from tony Fifth ...

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Back in the 1960s, humorist, writer, raconteur and TV and radio personality Jean Shepherd (1921-1999) was the undisputed king of late night radio on the ...

Weller Martin tries desperately to retain some control over his life despite falling into ill health and becoming a reluctant resident of a nursing home. ...

Peg and Irv, two quirky but endearing baby-boomers bravely venture into the world of modern dating. But when these opposites attract, they discover love isn't ...

Following two SOLD-OUT engagements in 2016, CarneyMagic returns to the stage of Sierra Madre Playhouse for three more dates of amazing FUN! John Carney is ...

Out there on Highway 57 in North Carolina, somewhere between Frog Leap and Smyrna, sits a gas station across from the Double Cupp Diner. The ...

July’s selection for the ongoing Off The Page series of free staged readings at Sierra Madre Playhouse is Wings by Arthur Kopit. Emily Stilson, seventy ...

Rural Central Texas, 1909. A young Russian-Jewish immigrant, newly arrived in America through the port of Galveston, pulls his banana cart into the hamlet of ...

Staged reading of a new play. Written by Stephen Fife and Ralph Pezzullo. Directed by Gleason Bauer.Imagine you are Karen Roberts, a 35-year-old housewife and ...

As the next entry in its Off The Page series of free monthly play readings, Sierra Madre Playhouse will present the comedy Miss Lulu Bett, ...

Staged reading. Written by Donald Margulies. Directed by Scott Alan Smith. Two married couples have been best friends for years. Karen and Gabe, international food ...

December 7, 1941. Four Hawaiian youngsters (two of Korean extraction, one of Filipino parentage, one of Japanese extraction) are playing marbles in a churchyard in ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse continues its Off The Page series of free staged readings with Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse is presenting the non-musical stage adaptation of A Christmas Story as its holiday attraction this year. The Parker family gets its Christmas ...

A Classical Christmas. An evening of holiday music. Jessica Pierce, flute. Almer Imanovic, guitar. Abram Poliakoff, tenor. Sierra Madre Music Children’s Choir.A selection of contemporary ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse continues its series of free monthly staged readings of American plays on December 11 at 7:30 p.m. with Bus Stop by William ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse continues its series of free monthly staged readings of American plays with The Lady With All the Answers by David Rambo, directed ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse continues its series of free monthly staged readings of American plays with Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon, directed by Joshua Finkel. ...

Aubrey Manning is back as the irrepressible Sister! After teaching countless students about the saints, venial sins, limbo and more, Sister is now offering up ...

At the 1958 Springfield High School prom, we mmet Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy and Suzy, the Marvelous Wonderettes, four girls with hopes and dreams ...

The Dream on Royal Street is a madcap interpretation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, set in the present in the Royal Street Hotel in ...

The Brainy and Beautiful Belle yearns to escape her provincial life...and her brute of a suitor, Gaston. However, Belle gets more adventurous than she wanted ...

A revue with a difference? A revue that tells a story? A show that covers one night and forty years? A show that takes place ...

In a magical kingdom fathoms below, the beautiful young mermaid Ariel longs to leave her ocean home to live in the world above. But first, ...

Leapin' Lizards!  The popular comic strip heroine takes center stage in one of the world's best-loved musicals.  With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little ...

Talk about a time-provenaudience-pleaser! "Try To Remember" a time when this romantic charmerwasn't enchanting audiences around the world. THE FANTASTICKS is thelongest-running production of any ...