Lucie Stern Theatre
Lucie Stern Theatre
1305 Middlefield Rd. Palo Alto CA 94301- Phone:
- 650-463-1960
- Website:
- http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/depts/csd/activit...
- Capacity:
- 420
For questions about a purchase, please contact Goldstar.
Current Events on Goldstar
Verdi's Aida, by West Bay Opera With Kunst-Stoff Ballet
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $65.00
- Our Price:
- SOLD OUT
West Bay Opera presents Giuseppe Verdi's Aida. Composed at the request of the King of Egypt for the opening of the Suez Canal in 1871, the opera tells the tragically romantic story of an enslaved Ethiopian... Learn More.
Past Events on Goldstar
Leapin' Lizards! The Palo Alto Players Present Annie
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $23.00 - $32.00
- Our Price:
- $11.50 - $16.00
The sun'll come out at Lucie Stern Theatre as the Palo Alto Players present the classic musical, Annie. Based on the beloved comic strip by Harold Gray, this timeless Broadway favorite tells the story of a... Learn More.
Now Circa Then -- West Coast Premiere of Quirky Romantic Comedy
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $49.00
- Our Price:
- $24.50
Past and present collide and opposites attract in this West Coast premiere of Now Circa Then. Written by Carly Mensch -- who works on the Showtime TV hit Weeds and has written a number of plays, including ... Learn More.
Mozart's Don Giovanni from West Bay Opera
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $65.00
- Our Price:
- $32.50
West Bay Opera presents Mozart's Don Giovanni, one of the most popular and acclaimed operas ever composed. Known for its remarkable depth of characterization and sublimely beautiful arias, this version of... Learn More.
Aftermath: A Documentary Play About Displaced Iraqis
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $23.00 - $32.00
- Our Price:
- $13.00 - $17.50
Palo Alto Players present Aftermath, a documentary play by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen. In 2008, the two writers traveled to Jordan to interview Iraqi civilians and hear their stories of how the American... Learn More.
The Secret Garden: The Broadway Musical From TheatreWorks
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $74.00
- Our Price:
- $37.00
TheatreWorks presents The Secret Garden, a production of the award-winning Broadway musical. This is the story of Mary, an orphaned girl sent to live on her uncle's estate, where she discovers a locked... Learn More.
West Bay Opera Presents Camille Saint-Saëns' Samson et Dalila
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $65.00
- Our Price:
- $32.50
The compelling Old Testament tale of Samson, a hero who is seduced by a woman and loses his heart, his hair and finally his strength, comes to life in this sweeping epic. This French grand opera features a... Learn More.
Fly By Night: New Indie Rock Musical, Courtesy of TheatreWorks
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $49.00 - $69.00
- Our Price:
- $24.50 - $34.50
This world premiere indie rock musical by Will Connolly, Michael Mitnick and Kim Rosenstock tells the darkly comic story of two entrancing sisters and a hapless sandwich maker who embark on adventure and... Learn More.
Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit: Sublime Supernatural Comedy, Courtesy of Palo Alto Players
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $31.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00
The Palo Alto Players' 80th season comes to a close with Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, a classic comedy in which a novelist invites a medium to conduct a séance in his home, hoping to expose her as a fraud.... Learn More.
West Bay Opera Presents Dido and Aeneas and La vida breve
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $55.00
- Our Price:
- $27.50
This West Bay Opera production pairs two tragic love stories for one exciting evening of opera, conducted by José Luis Moscovich. Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas tells of the doomed relationship between... Learn More.
Altar Boyz: The Hit Off-Broadway Musical Comes to the Lucie Stern Theatre
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $33.00 - $35.00
- Our Price:
- $17.00 - $18.00
Outer Critics Circle Award-winning musical Altar Boyz is a foot-stomping, rafter-raising comedy about a fictitious Christian boy band on the last night of their "Raise the Praise" tour. Matthew, Mark, Luke,... Learn More.
West Bay Opera Presents Turandot by Giacomo Puccini
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $55.00
- Our Price:
- $27.50
West Bay Opera General Director José Luis Moscovich conducts Turandot, Giacomo Puccini's classic final work. The last of the grand Italian operas, the tale of a cold Chinese princess and the clever prince... Learn More.
Shadowlands: Drama About C.S. Lewis, Author of Chronicles of Narnia
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $31.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00
William Nicholson's award-winning play Shadowlands is the bittersweet love story of Oxford professor and Chronicles of Narnia author C.S. Lewis and the American poet Joy Gresham. What began as a friendship... Learn More.
Sunset Boulevard: Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tony Award-Winning Musical
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $33.00
- Our Price:
- $17.00
Palo Alto Players presents the Bay Area premiere production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical masterpiece, Sunset Boulevard. Winner of 7 Tony Awards in 1995, the play is based on Billy Wilder's classic film,... Learn More.
Verdi Opera La Forza del Destino by West Bay Opera
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $55.00
- Our Price:
- $27.50
West Bay Opera presents Verdi's opera La Forza del Destino. Leonora is in love with Alvaro and plans to elope with him. Her father, the Marquis de Calatrava, intercepts them. Alvaro accidentally wounds the... Learn More.
The 11th Annual Funny Girlz: A Smorgasbord of Women Comedians
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
From the producers of Kung Pao Kosher Comedy comes the 11th Annual Funny Girlz, a celebration of women in comedy featuring a diverse line-up of extremely funny female comedians: British/Pakistani/Muslim,... Learn More.
Dead Man's Cell Phone, a Quirky Comedy by Sarah Ruhl
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $31.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00
In this wildly imaginative comedy by Sarah Ruhl, the peaceful ambiance in an otherwise-quiet café is interrupted by an incessantly ringing cell phone at the next table. Discovering that the phone's owner is... Learn More.
The Palo Alto Players Perform the Hit Jewtopia
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $31.00 - $32.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00 - $16.50
In the longest-running Off-Broadway comedy in both New York and Los Angeles history, Jewtopia chronicles the story of Adam, a Jew, and Chris, a gentile, who would each like to settle down and marry a nice... Learn More.
Verdi's La traviata from West Bay Opera
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $45.00
- Our Price:
- $22.50
West Bay Opera presents Verdi's classic opera La traviata. Verdi's most popular opera is about a beautiful courtesan, Violetta, who sacrifices her life for her one true love. Violetta's lover's father... Learn More.
Rent: Hit Rock Musical from Palo Alto Players
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $21.00 - $31.00
- Our Price:
- $11.00 - $16.00
Palo Alto Players present Jonathan Larson's rock musical Rent. Based loosely on on Puccini's opera La Bohème, Rent follows the lives and passions of seven young New Yorkers, living a bohemian lifestyle and... Learn More.
West Bay Opera Presents Von Weber's Der Freischütz
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $45.00
- Our Price:
- $22.50
A love story with a twist and more than a hint of the supernatural, Der Freischütz was the first major German Romantic opera. Great arias and ensembles, soaring choruses and lively folk dances fill this... Learn More.
Palo Alto Players Present the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play, Rabbit Hole
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $31.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00
Palo Alto Players continue their 2009-2010 season with Rabbit Hole, the story of a couple whose world is turned upside down when they lose their young son. Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire wrte this story... Learn More.
Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare's Tragedy of Star-Crossed Lovers
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $33.00
- Our Price:
- $17.00
Palo Alto Players presents Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Since its debut over 400 years ago, this tale of young love, ancient feuds, and senseless loss has resonated with audiences; this dynamic production... Learn More.
Puccini's La bohème from West Bay Opera
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $45.00
- Our Price:
- $22.50
West Bay Opera presents Puccini's La bohème. This tragic tale of young love among the starving artists of Romantic-era Paris is one of the most richly emotional, irresistibly tuneful operas ever written. Learn More.
Country Musical Tinyard Hill from TheatreWorks
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $59.00
- Our Price:
- $31.00
Set in the '60s to a country-pop score, this feisty new musical focuses on family, patriotism and romance in an era of change. A handsome young blacksmith in the small town of Tinyard Hill, Georgia, meets a... Learn More.
Maureen McGovern: A Long and Winding Road Pays Tribute To '60s Musical Icons
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $75.00
- Our Price:
- $37.50
Maureen McGovern, the chart-topping and Grammy-winning singer who also appeared in such movies as Airplane! and The Towering Inferno, presents A Long and Winding Road, a concert paying tribute to the... Learn More.
British Comedy Run for Your Wife at Lucie Stern Theatre
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $31.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00
This comedic classic of big laughs and bigamy is a joyride through London with a cabbie who masterfully juggles his two unsuspecting wives until his double life begins to collide head-on. Run for Your Wife... Learn More.
Puccini's Masterpiece Madama Butterfly from West Bay Opera
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $45.00
- Our Price:
- $22.50
After three years, an American naval officer returns to Butterfly, his young Japanese wife, full of remorse, with a new American wife. Heartbroken, Butterfly entrusts her 3-year old son to the American woman... Learn More.
The King and I: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Musical Masterpiece
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $31.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00
Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical comes to the Lucie Stern Theatre in a production by Palo Alto Players. Set in exotic Siam during the 1860's, The King and I depicts a clash between Western and Eastern... Learn More.
Broadway Hit It Ain't Nothing But The Blues at Lucie Stern Theatre
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $42.00 - $65.00
- Our Price:
- $21.50 - $33.00
This red-hot Broadway hit is a foot-stomping, high-voltage journey in song. From African chants and Delta spirituals to the urban electricity of a Chicago nightclub, from dusty backroad bluegrass to the... Learn More.
Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice from West Bay Opera
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $45.00
- Our Price:
- $22.50
According to legend, when Euridice died a young woman, her husband Orfeo sang and played the lyre so mournfully that the gods wept. The muses encouraged him to go and search for her in the netherworld. This... Learn More.
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $31.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00
The play centers on George, a professor at a small New England college, and his wife, Martha, as they prepare to entertain George's new younger colleague and his wife. As the drinks flow and the night... Learn More.
Texas Character Comedy Greater Tuna at the Lucie Stern Theatre
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $31.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00
Venture down the road to Tuna, Texas--where the Lion's Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies. You'll pass some time with the upstanding citizens of the state's third smallest town. In this... Learn More.
Bizet's Carmen from West Bay Opera at Lucie Stern Theatre
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $45.00
- Our Price:
- $22.50
Never having set foot in Spain, in 1875 the 36-year-old Bizet composed a thoroughly French opera on Spanish themes. It tells the story of Carmen, a sensuous gypsy in 1870s Seville who lives in the moment,... Learn More.
John Patrick Shanley's Doubt, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize & Tony Award
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $56.00 - $64.00
- Our Price:
- $28.00 - $32.00
One of the great plays of the decade, this riveting clash of conscience and conviction turns the stuff of headlines into exquisite, engrossing drama. When she suspects a popular and dedicated priest of... Learn More.
Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer, Presented by West Bay Opera
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00
- Our Price:
- $20.00
West Bay Opera presents Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman). Often considered Wagner's first great opera, it's based on the legend of a ghostly sea captain cursed to travel the ocean for... Learn More.
Mozart's Così fan tutte from West Bay Opera
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00
- Our Price:
- $20.00
West Bay Opera presents Mozart's Così fan tutte at Lucie Stern Theatre. Mozart wrote some of his most sublime operatic music for Così fan tutte, as he and master librettist Lorenzo da Ponte poked fun at a... Learn More.
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Set in 1960s San Francisco
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $51.00 - $58.00
- Our Price:
- $25.50 - $29.00
Shakespeare's celebration of love in all its magical permutations gets a music-filled reimagining in the City by the Bay, circa 1967. Set in a psychedelic "summer of love," this madcap tale of mismatched... Learn More.
West Bay Opera Presents Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $50.00
- Our Price:
- $20.00 - $25.00
Southern Italian village life, dominated by a mix of Church morals and the Sicilian code of honor, provides the backdrop for these two masterpieces about love and betrayal. In Cavalleria Rusticana, tipped... Learn More.
Trying: Memoir of FDR's Attorney General from TheatreWorks
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $42.00 - $48.00
- Our Price:
- $22.00 - $25.00
Nationally acclaimed actor Ken Ruta stars as the honorable Francis Biddle, FDR's former attorney general. Biddle's secretary is fresh-faced Sarah, a prairie populist hired to help with his memoirs. Based on... Learn More.
Brilliant Farce Set In the Jazz Era: The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $50.00 - $57.00
- Our Price:
- $25.00 - $28.50
Set in the "Chicago"-era glamour of the Jazz Age, The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue tells the story of what happens when a suave, socialite heartthrob proposes to his high-school sweetheart, only to discover... Learn More.
Sparkling Jazz Age Comedy The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $32.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00
Amid the art deco splendor of Cole Porter's New York, Moliere's brilliant farce gets a jolt of champagne wit and jazz age dazzle. When a debonair heartthrob proposes to his high-society sweetie, he soon... Learn More.
Brooklyn Boy at the Lucie Stern Theatre
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $48.00 - $55.00
- Our Price:
- $25.00 - $28.50
When a Jewish novelist is suddenly thrust into a world of best-seller acclaim and Hollywood hustle he's not sure what to do. He finds his answer by revisiting the rowdy neighborhoods of his youth and makes a... Learn More.
Harold & Maude, an Intimate Musical Based on the Film
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $32.00 - $42.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00 - $21.00
From the author of The Fantasticks comes this offbeat and charming musical full of life, death, love and laughter. Based on the 1971 film, this wacky black comedy captures the sweet but unconventional... Learn More.
Striking 12, the GrooveLily Holiday Show from TheatreWorks
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $38.00 - $44.00
- Our Price:
- $19.00 - $20.00
TheatreWorks presents the Northern California Premiere of Striking 12, a Rewired Version of The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen, at the Lucie Stern Theatre. Don't miss the show the Mercury News... Learn More.
Arthur Miller's "All My Sons"
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
- Full Price:
- $36.00 - $48.00
- Our Price:
- $18.00 - $24.00
One of America's greatest dramas, the impassioned, homefront saga of a family struggling with its wartime secrets: Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," presented by TheatreWorks. Learn More.
Map and Directions
The Lucie Stern Theatre is located in Palo Alto at 1305 Middlefield Road.
FROM HIGHWAY 101:
Take Embarcadero Exit West towards Stanford. Turn right (north) on Middlefield Road. Lucie Stern Community Center is on the right within the first block at the corner of Melville and Middlefield.
FROM HIGHWAY 280:
Take Page Mill Road heading east. Cross El Camino and turn left (north) on Middlefield Road, cross Embarcadero and Lucie Stern is on the right within the first block at the corner of Melville and Middlefield.
FROM EL CAMINO REAL:
Take Embarcadero east (away from Stanford) and turn left on Middlefield.
Handicap Information
Handicap seating may be available.
Please contact us before buying tickets to make arrangements.