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Now Playing
​Escaping Queens
Over the Roof
Conceived and written by Capitola songwriter/restaurateur Joe Ortiz, the musical "Escaping Queens" had its World Premiere at Cabrillo Stage in 2012. Since then the creative team of Joe Ortiz and director Greg Fritsch have continued to develop the production, staging two workshops in New York and a concert reading in San Francisco, which led to rewriting the beginning and the ending of the show. We are very excited to announce that this new version is making its debut this July at Actors' Theatre.​
July 3 - August 2
Thurs, Fri & Sat @ 7 pm
Sun @ 2 pm
$35 general, $32 senior/student
Thursday tickets are 2 for 1 (use code 2for1)​
Note: No show on July 4
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Coming Soon
Auditions for the Actors' Theatre October 2026 Production
Feathers & Teeth
Tuesday July 14 from 6 to 9 pm at the theater
For more information see our Auditions page
​Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard
presented and directed by Simon Hayward
This classic midcentury comic masterpiece is one of Tom Stoppard's earliest plays but also likely his best known. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are two minor characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Stoppard crafts an ingenious backstory for these characters, which becomes an exploration of the meaning of life (or death), woven into Shakespeare’s greatest play. The two collegiate friends find themselves traveling to Elsinore, encountering a roving band of actors, a prince (maybe mad), pirates, and never manage to get a grip on anything--even which of them is which.
August 14 - 30
Thurs, Fri & Sat @ 7:30 pm
Sun @ 2 pm​
Get Tickets (on sale July 1)
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$40 general, $35 senior/student
Thursday tickets are 2 for 1
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