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
The Lucie Stern Theatre is an intimate 425 seat theatre. Started by the generosity of Mrs. Lucie Stern in the early 1930s, this community center gave Palo Alto a headstart on its local arts programs. The first building was completed in 1935,and the theatre is the heart of many community activities. Now a complex, the Spanish style buildings are home to the Children's Theatre, the Palo Alto Players, Theatreworks and the West Bay Opera, in addition to the city's Recreation Department.
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Current Events on Goldstar
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Tropical Romance Set to Calypso in Once on This Island
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
Full Price $56.00 - $68.00Our Price $29.50 - $35.507 Star StarredSet in the French Antilles, this one-act musical from the creators of Ragtime and Seussical combines elements of both Romeo and Juliet and The Little Mermaid. The result is an exhilarating calypso-tinged... Learn More.
Past Events on Goldstar
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Donizetti's Comic Opera The Elixir of Love
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
Full Price $69.00Our Price $34.509 Star StarredWith music that sparkles and a playful libretto, West Bay Opera's production of Donizetti's comedy finds handsome Nemorino mad for the feisty Adina. She doesn't know he exists, but he'll do anything to get... Learn More. -
Author Anna Quindlen Reads From Her New Novel
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
Full Price $20.00Our Price $10.002 Star StarredAnna Quindlen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times and Newsweek who's gone on to be a best-selling author, reads from her new novel Still Life With Bread Crumbs. Quindlen's past books... Learn More. -
The Heiress: Tony-Winning Drama of Wealth, Class and Revenge From Palo Alto Players
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
Full Price $39.00 - $45.00Our Price $21.00 - $24.0035 Star StarredFans of Downton Abbey's clandestine romances, saucy betrayals and period costumes will find plenty to love in The Heiress, Ruth and Augustus Goetz' Tony and Academy Award-winning masterpiece of love and... Learn More. -
Little Women: Broadway Musical Adaptation of Beloved Novel
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
Full Price $55.00 - $79.00Our Price $29.00 - $41.0071 Star StarredLouisa May Alcott's much-adored novel has been transformed into a hit Broadway musical that lights up the stage. Little Women tells the poignant story of the four young March sisters -- eldest sister Meg,... Learn More. -
God of Carnage: Palo Alto Players in Comedy About Parents Behaving Badly
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
Full Price $39.00 - $45.00Our Price $21.00 - $24.003 Star StarredWhen two 11-year-old boys have a run-in on the playground, some very bad behavior ensues -- by their parents -- in God of Carnage. Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning dark comedy centers on two couples who... Learn More. -
Love, Lust and Intrigue Take Center Stage in Tosca
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
Full Price $69.00Our Price $34.5012 Star StarredPuccini's powerful opera is the passionate tale of celebrated diva Floria Tosca. When her lover becomes embroiled in political troubles and is pursued by the police chief, Tosca prepares to do whatever it... Learn More. -
Tony-Winning In the Heights Brings a Vibrant NYC Neighborhood to Life
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
Full Price $48.00Our Price $25.5016 Star StarredIn the Heights took Broadway to a place it had never been before: north of Manhattan's 155th Street. Winner of four Tony Awards, including Best Musical, In the Heights tells the story of New York's... Learn More. -
The Loudest Man on Earth: TheatreWorks Premieres Romantic Comedy
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
Full Price $52.00 - $68.00Our Price $20.00 - $34.0023 Star StarredWorkshopped in New York, Philadelphia and Palo Alto, The Loudest Man on Earth receives its world premiere at the Lucie Stern Theatre. Playwright Catherine Rush (Losing the Shore, This Island Alone) has... Learn More. -
Boeing Boeing: Tony-Winning Comedy Lands in Palo Alto
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
Full Price $32.00Our Price $17.5023 Star StarredA 2008 Tony Award winner for Best Revival, Marc Camoletti's classic farce Boeing Boeing comes in for a landing, courtesy of the Palo Alto Players. This high-flying comedy follows a French architect who's... Learn More. -
Verdi's Tragic Opera Otello Presented by West Bay Opera
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
Full Price $69.00Our Price $34.505 Star StarredFrom the opening tempest scene to the spine-tingling finish, Verdi's transformation of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy crackles with theatrical electricity. When the evil Iago cleverly exploits Otello's... Learn More. -
NY Times Food Columnist Mark Bittman on Eating Vegan Before 6pm
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
Full Price $20.00Our Price $10.002 Star StarredThe Commonwealth Club welcomes Mark Bittman to the stage at the Lucie Stern Community Theatre. Bittman is an Opinion columnist and The New York Times magazine's lead food columnist. His Minimalist column ran... Learn More. -
The Mountaintop: The Last Night of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
Full Price $51.00 - $63.00Our Price $25.50 - $31.5016 Star StarredSet in Memphis in 1968, this gripping drama envisions the events taking place the evening before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. Winner of London's Olivier Award for Best New Play, this... Learn More. -
Donizetti's Tragic Opera Lucia di Lammermoor From West Bay Opera
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
Full Price $69.00Our Price $34.506 Star StarredWest Bay Opera brings Gaetano Donizetti's tragic opera Lucia di Lammermoor to the stage. Loosely based on Sir Walter Scott's historical novel, Lucia concerns the emotionally fragile Lucy Ashton, who is... Learn More. -
Looking for Normal: Drama Explores Love, Marriage and a Sex Change
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
Full Price $32.00Our Price $10.00 - $17.5012 Star StarredSoon after his 25th wedding anniversary, a Midwestern factory worker stuns his wife and 13-year-old daughter by announcing he's planning to undergo a sex-change operation that will turn him from Roy into... Learn More. -
Big River: The Tony-Winning Musical Based on Huckleberry Finn
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
Full Price $56.00 - $68.00Our Price $28.00 - $34.0011 Star StarredJoin Huck Finn, his friend Jim, and a host of entertaining characters from kings to thieves on a journey down the Mississippi River. TheatreWorks' production of the hit musical Big River stars James Monroe... Learn More. -
Les Contes D'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) From West Bay Opera
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
Full Price $69.00Our Price $34.502 Star StarredFrench Romantic composer Jacques Offenbach never finished his 1881 opera, Les Contes D'Hoffmann, but its witty libretto and wonderful score have made it popular around the world. Based on the works of the... Learn More. -
Upright Grand, a Funny and Profound Play about Family
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
Full Price $51.00 - $63.00Our Price $25.50 - $31.5012 Star StarredFrom TheatreWorks and playwright Laura Schellhardt, author of Auctioning the Ainsleys, comes a world premiere play about the relationship between a father and daughter, both gifted musicians, whose lives... Learn More. -
Verdi's Aida, by West Bay Opera With Kunst-Stoff Ballet
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
Full Price $65.00Our Price $32.508 Star StarredWest 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. -
Leapin' Lizards! The Palo Alto Players Present Annie
Lucie Stern Theatre (Palo Alto, CA)
Full Price $23.00 - $32.00Our Price $11.50 - $16.0017 Star StarredThe 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 $49.00Our Price $24.508 Star StarredPast 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.
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.
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.