Category — Theatre

Treasure Island is coming to the Sonoma Community Center—and one lucky Sonoma on the Cheap reader (and a guest) will get to see it for free! [Read more →]

The FEPO Theatre Company brings to life folktales from Greece, Germany, and Africa: The Tortoise and the Hare, The Hedgehog and the Hare and The Lion and the Hare on Thursday. [Read more →]

Boathouse Sushi is teaming up with  the Sixth Street Theater to give you more reasons to dine out and play. From now until December 31, 2010 you can get a  free $10 off dinner certificate to Boathouse Sushi on Mendocino Ave. in Santa Rosa.  After dinner present your Boathouse dining receipt to the Sixth Street Theatre Box Office and receive 2 for 1 show tickets.

Watch a live performance of the musical based on the Peanuts comic strip; performed by children from Healdsburg’s Raven Youth Theatre at the Charles Schultz Museum on Saturday afternoon.  The performance is free with regular museum admission (adults $10, youth & seniors, $5, kids under 5 free).

Saturday October 30, 2010 2 pm.
Charles M. Schultz Museum
2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa
(707) 579-4452

If you love live theatre, like I do, you’ll love today’s Groupon: a four-play package to the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco for $36 (value $72) or $44 (an $88 value). Choose from eleven options each with different play/date combinations. Groupon is a SOTC affiliate, for more on what that means, see  How to use Sonoma on the Cheap.

Groupon also offers some ” it doesn’t-matter-where-you-live bargains”  in various other cities—something you can buy online, for example. Here are today’s:

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Pay What You Can tickets are available at the door for every Thursday performance at the Sonoma County Rep Theatre. There are no advanced reservations for PWYC tickets. Upcoming pay as you can nights are: Oct 7, 14, and 21. Playing now: [Read more →]

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