Category — Theatre

The annual San Francisco Theater Festival is a huge free indoor/outdoor celebration of live theater at held at the Yerba Buena Cultural Center in downtown San Francisco. It includes over 100  performances on 17 stages including comedy, drama, one-acts, excerpts, solo, new works, musical, improv, and children’s acts. All shows are under 30 minutes long.

The San Francisco Theater Festival is presented in partnership with the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. And best of all, it’s free.  (But you can buy a VIP wristband here  for $18 that comes with a T-shirt and allows you to skip the lines.)

Sunday August 8, 2010
Yerba Buena Gardens
Third and Mission Streets, San Francisco

Select performances of SRT’s summer season are going for $10 a ticket.

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I have to gush…this is so much fun!  FREE  Shakespeare plays on the Windsor Green are back (they do pass a hat for donations). This year, they’re performing Romeo & Juliet. Bring a blanket and a picnic for a cheap date night. It’s also a great way to give your kids a little culture in an easy dose; you can distract them with snacks or a run around the playground if they get bored with the play. [Read more →]

There are some $5 tickets available to the Sunday July 11th 7:30 pm performance of Peter Pan at the SRT. To get in on a great deal ($5 for live theatre?!? Plus, I heard it was a great show), call the box office at (707) 527-4307 and tell them you saw the deal on Sonoma on the Cheap.

Sunday July 11, 2010 7;30 pm
SRJC Burbank Auditorium, SRJC Campus, Santa Rosa

Boathouse Sushi is teaming up with Summer Repertory Theater to give you more reasons to dine out and play.  From June 16th – August 7th get  a $10 dinner certficate to Boathouse Sushi on Mendocino Ave. in Santa Rosa.  After dinner present your Boathouse dining receipt to SRT ticket booth and recieve 2 for 1 show tickets.

For $29, you can get one ticket to see Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack Show at Marines’ Memorial Theatre in Union Square (a $59 value). Good only on June 14 or June 19 (for a total of 4 show times, evening and matinee).

Sandy Hackett, son of Buddy Hackett, produced the Rat Pack Show to commemorate this 50-year anniversary with a fictionalized musical performance about the legendary performers. It has classic numbers such as “For Once in My Life,” “My Way,” and “Mack the Knife, and voiceovers from Buddy Hackett himself (recorded prior to his passing in 2003).  I wonder why this makes me want a martini?

This is a  Groupon deal, so you’ll need to act fast. [Read more →]

I know, it’s in San Francisco, not Sonoma County, but if you haven’t seen Wicked yet, trust me you want to! I thought messing with a classic like the Wizard of Oz was a mistake, and honestly, didn’t like the book that much. I went only because my drama geek son was dying to (it was his Christmas gift) and I loved it so much, I’ve seen it three more times!  Goldstar has Wicked tickets that normally sell for $80- $99 for $50-$75 (only on particular nights).

Tonight is the last PAY WHAT YOU CAN performance for I Hate Hamlet! at the Sonoma County Rep. Every Thursday night, the Rep offers a Pay What You Can performance, which is, logically enough, a night where you chose what you want to pay for a ticket. The box office opens at 7 pm, show starts at 8 pm. For more information, call 707- 823-0177.

Thursday Feb. 18, 2010 Box office opens 7 pm, Show at 8 pm
Sonoma County Rep Theatre
104 N. Main St. Sebastopol

A Reader’s Theater production of the acclaimed Holiday Play, Too Many Tamales, based on the book by Gary Soto. First in Spanish, then in English, with Tamales in between.

Saturday, December 5, 2009 2 pm
Healdsburg Library

Friday, December 11, 2009 6 pm
Santa Rosa Central Library

Cinnabar Theatre is offering $15 tickets (regularly $35)  for the Nov 4, 2009 performance for anyone who mentions Sonoma on the Cheap when they call. This is a steal. [Read more →]