Altarena Playhouse
Altarena Playhouse
1409 High Street Alameda CA 94501- Phone:
- 510-523-1553
- Website:
- http://www.altarena.org/
- Capacity:
- 150
For questions about a purchase, please contact Goldstar.
Current Events on Goldstar
Currently, there are no events available at this venue through Goldstar.
Past Events on Goldstar
Fences: August Wilson's Award-Winning Drama at the Altarena
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $11.00
Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, August Wilson's acclaimed drama Fences chronicles the black experience in the 1950s with humor and heart. The play tells the story of a middle-aged Troy,... Learn More.
Greater Tuna: The Long-Running Small-Town Comedy Satire
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $11.00
This long-running off-Broadway comedy hit features two actors portraying the entire eccentric population of Tuna, the third smallest city in Texas, in a hilarious tour de farce of quick-change artistry that... Learn More.
Moonlight and Magnolias: A Comedy About the Making of Gone With the Wind
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $11.00
Set in 1939, Ron Hutchinson's behind-the-scenes comedy follows infamous producer David O. Selznick, director Victor Fleming, and screenwriter Ben Hecht as they attempt to rework the screenplay for Selznick's... Learn More.
Tony Winning Musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $11.00
Altarena Playhouse stages beloved musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, showcasing the trials and tribulations of six quirky kids vying to be spelling bee champion. The hilarious and... Learn More.
Of Mice and Men: Play Based on Classic Novel by John Steinbeck at Altarena Playhouse
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $11.00
Based on the classic short novel by Nobel prize-winning author John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men follows best friends Lennie and George as they search for their own version of the American Dream. Directed by... Learn More.
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change: Off-Broadway Musical Hit
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $11.00
Altarena Playhouse presents I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, the longest-running musical in Off-Broadway history. This funny series of vignettes explores dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands,... Learn More.
Southern Dramedy Steel Magnolias at Altarena Playhouse
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $11.00
Altarena Playhouse presents Robert Harling's hilarious and touching play, Steel Magnolias. The drama is centered around the outspoken clientele of a beauty salon in a small Southern town. When sudden tragedy... Learn More.
A. R. Gurney's Comedy Sylvia at Altarena Playhouse
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $11.00
Long-married empty-nesters Greg and Kate adopt an abandoned street-smart mutt named Sylvia after the kids have grown up and moved out. But will Sylvia be a companion, a rival for each other's affections, a... Learn More.
Man of La Mancha: Classic Musical at Altarena Playhouse
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $11.00
Altarena Playhouse presents Man of La Mancha, the beloved musical based on Cervantes' Don Quixote. When an old man decides to become a knight, he's initially greeted with ridicule, but his unceasing... Learn More.
William Inge's Classic Bus Stop at Altarena Playhouse
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $11.00
It's winter on the Great Plains, and a snowstorm near Kansas City has stranded a group of bus passengers at a local diner. During their weather-enforced overnight layover, the diverse group of strangers... Learn More.
The Nerd: Zany Farce at Altarena Playhouse
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
Altarena Playhouse presents Larry Shue's famous farce The Nerd. It's the hilarious story of a young architect who is visted by the man who saved his life in Vietnam; the visitor turns out to be completely... Learn More.
The Spitfire Grill, a Heartfelt and Uplifting Musical
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
When a young woman is released from prison and decides to start a new life in a small Midwestern town, she gets a job working at the Spitfire Grill. But she - and the town - have old wounds that need healing... Learn More.
A Streetcar Named Desire: Tennessee Williams' Drama from Altarena Playhouse
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
Altarena Playhouse presents A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams' tragic drama tells the story of Blanche DuBois, an aging Southern belle who goes to live with her sister Stella and her brutish... Learn More.
Friendship Comedy Art by Yasmina Reza
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
Art is a heady and hilarious look at the bonds of friendship. Three old friends square off over the merits of a recently purchased painting. Their friendship is put to the test as the arguments quickly go... Learn More.
A Taffeta Christmas - A Light-Hearted Holiday Show
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
The Taffetas are back with a nostalgic, light-hearted look at the holidays in A Taffeta Christmas. The four singing sisters celebrate the season with all your Christmas favorites in a tribute to the 1950s... Learn More.
Bat Boy, The Musical - The Cult Musical Classic at Altarena Playhouse
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
Ripped from the headlines of the Weekly World News, the tuneful Bat Boy is unlike any musical you've ever seen. When a half-bat, half-human creature is discovered in a cave outside of a small town, one... Learn More.
Noel Coward's Hay Fever: Brilliantly Witty Comedy at Altarena Playhouse
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Altarena Playhouse presents Hay Fever by legendary British comic playwright Noel Coward. Displaying the sophisticated wit for which Coward is renowned, the beloved play tells the story of the eccentric Bliss... Learn More.
On Golden Pond: Classic Comedy at Altarena Playhouse
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Retired couple Ethel and Norman Thayer spend every summer at their home on Golden Pond. This year, their adult daughter visits, bringing along her fiance and his 13-year-old son. The Thayers spend the summer... Learn More.
Wait Until Dark: Frederick Knott's Classic Thriller at Altarena Playhouse
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Altarena Playhouse is proud to present Wait Until Dark, a classic thriller by Frederick Knott (Dial M For Murder). Three sinister con men embark on a mission to find a valuable doll in a dark Greenwich... Learn More.
The Man Who Saved Christmas, a Family Musical For the Holidays
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00 - $20.00
- Our Price:
- $9.00 - $10.00
Back by popular demand, the Altarena Playhouse presents Ron Lytle's new, old-fashioned musical The Man Who Saved Christmas. The show is based on the true story of toy-maker A.C. Gilbert and his real life... Learn More.
Morning's At Seven: Touching, Tony Award-Winning Comedy About Family at Altarena Playhouse
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
Altarena Playhouse presents Morning's At Seven by Paul Osborn. Set in the 1930s, this Tony Award-winning comedy concerns four aging sisters living near each other in a small town, and the events that ensue... Learn More.
Hilarious Satire Urinetown, The Musical at Altarena Playhouse
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
This hilarious musical comedy with the questionable title took Broadway by storm in 2001, winning three Tony Awards. Urinetown is an irreverent social satire and over-the-top Broadway parody. Set in a future... Learn More.
Oh My Godmother! -- Musical Comedy Twist on "Cinderella"
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
This "Godmother" of musical comedies is a toe-tapping, side-splitting take on the classic Cinderella story, but with a San Francisco twist. A lovestruck (Cinder)Albert is looking for his prince, while the... Learn More.
Musical The Last Five Years at Altarena Playhouse
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
With music reminiscent of Billy Joel, and incisive, heartfelt lyrics, this 2002 Drama Desk Award-winning musical chronicles a 5-year relationship, from meeting to marriage to break-up -- and you get to hear... Learn More.
Edward Albee's Masterpiece Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Edward Albee's drama about two darkly symbiotic relationships was made into a movie that received five Oscars. George, a disillusioned academic, and Martha, his caustic wife, have just come home from a... Learn More.
The Best of Rodgers & Hammerstein In A Grand Night for Singing
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
With shows like Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The Sound of Music and many many more, Rodgers & Hammerstein practically owned the Broadway box office for two decades. This musical revue features their... Learn More.
Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along at Altarena Playhouse
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00
- Our Price:
- $9.00
Merrily We Roll Along follows the career of Franklin Shepard backwards in time, from successful movie producer to his humble beginnings as an idealistic and youthful songwriter who, with his best friends... Learn More.
The Foreigner: An American Comedy, at Altarena Playhouse
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
Altarena Playhouse presents Obie Award-winning comedy The Foreigner. It's the story of two Englishmen, Froggy and Charlie, who visit a fishing lodge in rural Georgia. Charlie is so shy that he's afraid to... Learn More.
Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Altarena Playhouse
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
ARClight Repertory Theatre teams up with the Altarena Playhouse to present Shakespeare's popular romantic comedy As You Like It. It's the classic comedy that contrasts the stifling life in a court full of... Learn More.
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown - The Peanuts Musical
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $9.00
This classic musical, based on Charles M. Schulz's timeless comic-strip masterpiece Peanuts, has songs by Clark Gesner that are tuneful, humorous and heartfelt, and a book that is insightful, poignant and... Learn More.
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman at Altarena Playhouse
Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $7.50
First produced in 1949, Arthur Miller's masterpiece won the Pulitzer Prize. Worn-out Willy Loman, a salesman who spent his best years "riding on a smile and a shoeshine," is the center of this working man's... Learn More.
Map and Directions
The Altarena Playhouse is located on High Street between Central Avenue and Santa Clara Avenue in Alameda, California.
Street parking is available around the theater. Please allow a few minutes to get from your car to the theater.
Handicap Information
Handicap seating may be available.
Please contact us before buying tickets to make arrangements.