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In addition to its resident company, the
Santa Monica Playhouse: Playhouse has hosted such renowned

performers as Paul Linke, Stuart Pankin,
“A total theatre experience!” L.A. TIMES Louise Sorell, William Schallert, Sammy
Shore, Renee Taylor, Joe Bologna and
66 years and counting... Julie Harris, directors Mark W. Travis and

The magic of live theatre - Martin Charnin, and playwrights Jerry
e n t e r t a i n i n g, e n l i g h t e n i n g, Mayer, Arnold Schulman, Annie Reiner,
educational - is what Santa Monica Brenda Krantz, Australia's David
Williamson and Canada's Michel
Playhouse and its award-winning
Garneau.
resident company, Actors' Repertory
The Playhouse concept of self- and
Theatre (ART), are all about. One of
the country's most respected intimate community-awareness through drama has generated a powerful
theatrical centers, the Playhouse is international exchange with sister companies in Japan, England,
the only company of its kind to have produced non-stop for over Ireland, Italy, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Italy, Canada, Sweden,
Alaska and New York. Senator Kyoko Ono of Japan's House of
half a century. Under the aegis of Chris DeCarlo and Evelyn Rudie,
Councilors calls the Playhouse's Cultural Exchange Program “more
Co-Artistic Directors since 1973, the Playhouse has been honored
than an education experience, it blazes a trail of peace and
with over 250 awards and commendations and has presented 650
dynamic classic, contemporary and original productions. friendship between our two nations.”
The Playhouse is staffed by a small troupe of professional The LA TIMES is not exaggerating when it calls Santa Monica
Playhouse “A total theater experience.” With critically acclaimed
performers who have made an enormous impact on the local and
productions, pioneering advances in educational theatre, and
global community, touching the lives of over 5 million audience
international cultural exchange, this theatrical gem continues its
members to date.
With three performance spaces at their jewel of a theatre battle to raise cultural consciousness and fight for the survival and
complex on Fourth Street in the growth of the creative process, reaching out to make live, intimate
heart of Santa Monica, the theatre an active force in our community. Co-Artistic Director Chris
D e C a r l o , a V i e t n a m
company brings to brilliant life
v e t e r a n , s a y s h i s
our rich heritage of playwrights,
experiences convinced him
from Moliere to Strindberg, from
S h a k e s p e a r e t o S h o l o m that his mandate was to put
Aleichem. Famed playwright t h e h u m a n b a c k i n
Eugene Ionesco gave the humanity. “All of us at the
Playhouse,” he says, “want
company his highest praise,
t o m a k e a d r a m a t i c
a c c l a i m i n g t h e i r w o r k
“Magnifique!” difference in our world.”