Stockton's Live Theatres
Stockton is home to a broad range of theatre organizations, from talented high school actors to always-entertaining civic theatre groups. Every year both Delta Community College and the University of the Pacific present top-quality stage productions. For something more spontaneous - and often a little zany - drop in for one of Showbiz' hilarious comedy shows.
KUDOS Children's Theatre
Since 2003 KUDOS has been providing dramatic are instruction and performances for young people and their families. Their facility on Lucile Avenue includes a 74-seat theatre, lobby, box office, green room, tech booth, scene shop, and costumes rooms. Their productions often incorporate music and dance, colorful costumes, multi-media, and even puppetry. Classes are offered to 3-year-olds through adults.
KUDOS Children's Theatre offers a great lineup of plays for their 2022-23 season, including We Will Rock You followed by a Halloween musical.
Location: 1943 West Lucile Avenue, Stockton, CA KUDOS Children's Theatre
St. Mary's High School Theatre Productions
As part of their fine arts program, St. Mary's High School produces top quality stage productions every year. Past offerings have included Hairspray and Twelfth Night. The plays are usually done at the Stockton Civic Theatre. During the 2018-2019 school year they presented Beauty and the Best and The Beverly Hillbillies. With COVID making live stage produtions unavailable, St. Mary's switched to video productions offered on Pay-Per View. Now they are back to live productions an looking forward to a great 2022-23 season.
St. Mary's High School Theatre Productions
University of the Pacific Theatre Productions
The Theatre Arts department at the University of the Pacific has built a reputation for its fine stage productions. The student productions range from musicals and comedies to tragedies and operas. Performances are given in the black-box DeMarcus Brown Studio Theatre or the Long Theatre (both in the Drama Building on campus). Past productions have included The Drunken City, The Illusion, Julius Caesar, and Antigone. Tickets are often only $10. Box office: 209.946.2474
Location: 3601 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA
University of the Pacific Theatre Productions
Showbiz Theatre Company - CLOSED
Look for news coming soon about new theatre related use of the Showbiz building.
Showbiz Theatre Company (formerly That's Showbiz) offers a variety of comedy productions in their intimate theatre. Among their past productions were a hilarious melodrama Dark Deeds at Swan's Place or Never Trust a Tattooed Sailor, Frightfully Funny: Improv to Die For!, and A Showbiz Christmas. In 2019 they presented , Prelude toa Kiss, Baby, and Alice's Adventures Underground. Coming in August 2019 will be La Cage aux Folles. Showbiz Theatre Company also has acting classes for children, teens, and adults. The company was founded by Kevin and Elizabeth Costello.
Location: 1744 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA
Showbiz Theatre Productions
Delta College Drama Productions
San Joaquin Delta College's Drama Department presents on a series of exceptional stage productions every year. Among their recent plays have been The Crucible, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Children's Hour and Betty's Summer Vacation. In the spring of 2018 they presented Baltimore. Performances are staged on campus at the recently dedicated Alfred H. Muller Studio Theatre or the Tillie Lewis Theatre.
Location: 5151 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA
Delta College Drama Productions
Stockton Civic Theatre
Wowing audiences with top quality theatre productions since 1951, Stockton Civic Theatre continues to roll out one dazzling season after another. Actors, directors, set designers, and technical specialists at Stockton Civic Theatre have been honored in recent years at the annual Elly Awards, hosted by the Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance.
At the 2013 awards ceremony, Stockton Civic Theatre earned 8 awards, the most of any theatre in the greater Sacramento area. Their production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street was honored as Best Production. Other recent performances at the theatre have included Hair, Grease, Lend me a Tenor, On Golden Pond, Oklahoma, and The Producers.
Performances in 2022-2023 they will be presenting Gypsy, Dirty Rotten Scoundels, Oliver, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Fox on the Fairway, and RENT.
Stockton Civic Theatre annually offers a summer program for youth which includes acting, singing and dancing and culminates in the production and presentation of a full-scale musical. In 2022 they will be presenting Once Upon a Mattress
Location: 2312 Rosemarie Lane, Stockton, CA
Stockton Civic Theatre
