For almost 75 years, nonprofit theatre companies Broadway Sacramento and Sacramento Theatre Company (STC) have shared a theatre campus at 15th and H Streets in downtown Sacramento. Since their inceptions, STC has staged shows each fall, winter and spring, and Broadway Sacramento has produced its Broadway At Music Circus season each summer. Now, the two theatre companies have reached an agreement that allows Broadway Sacramento to assume a year-round residency on the site and expand its programming in the coming years. As envisioned by newspaper publisher and arts benefactor Eleanor McClatchy, Sacramento Theatre Company and Broadway Sacramento were founded to introduce professional theatre to the region. Both companies have rich histories of entertaining, enlightening and educating audiences of all ages.
In recent years, operating costs for professional theatre companies across the nation have soared to an all-time high and, despite the hard work of its staff and generosity of its board, those increasing financial pressures required STC to wind down its operations. Broadway Sacramento will now be the sole operator of the theatre complex. Both organizations’ boards of directors have worked together to reach this decision with the unified goal of ensuring the continuation and growth of professional theatre and theatre arts education in and for the Greater Sacramento community. “We are grateful to Sacramento Theatre Company’s patrons who, since 1942, have supported our mission of integrating professional theatre with theatre arts education,” said Betsy Wood, STC Board President and Executive Director. “While our board regrets having to make this choice, we look forward to supporting Broadway Sacramento’s expansion.” “Broadway Sacramento salutes STC for its decades of service to our region’s theatre professionals, students and audiences,” said Broadway Sacramento Board Chair Dr. Jacqueline M. Calkin. “We take our responsibility to foster year-round theatre programming very seriously and will do so for the continued benefit to our community.” Broadway Sacramento will expand its offerings in the UC Davis Health Pavilion beyond the usual summer months, kicking off its year-round programming with a production of ELF THE MUSICAL, which runs December 6 – 15.
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Broadway Sacramento will continue to present the Broadway On Tour series of musicals in the SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center. Its 2024 – 2025 season continues with KIMBERLY AKIMBO (December 31 – January 5), HAMILTON (January 8 – 19), MEAN GIRLS (February 18 – 23), TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL (March 4 – 8), and PARADE (May 6 – 11). Since the founding of Broadway At Music Circus in 1951 under an open-air, circus-style big top, Broadway Sacramento has grown to become Northern California’s premiere producer and presenter of musical theatre, and the largest nonprofit musical theatre company in the state. Between its Broadway At Music Circus and Broadway On Tour seasons, Broadway Sacramento, with the support of former STC patrons, will entertain over 250,000 patrons every year.