Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre Company Stages ‘In the Heights’

Award-Winning Broadway Musical From Lin-Manuel Miranda Comes to the Central Coast This Fall

The cast of Rubicon Theatre Company’s upcoming production of 'In the Heights' visit the Tortilla Flats mural project created by M.B. Hanrahan and Moses Mora, a public art installation that celebrates the multi-cultural neighborhood of working-class Mexican, Chumash, African-American, and Anglo-Americans who lived in Ventura’s historical westside neighborhood. | Credit: Loren Haar Photography

The Rubicon Theatre Company brings a taste of upper Manhattan and a collection of upbeat musical numbers to the Central Coast with their presentation of the Tony Award–winning musical In the Heights this fall.

With productions staged Wednesday through Sunday from October 29 to November 13 at Ventura’s Karyn Jackson Theatre (formerly known as the Rubicon, until a major naming donation was secured in early 2022), In the Heights is the Rubicon Theatre Company’s centerpiece show in their “Welcome Home” season this year. Inexpensive previews are October 26-28.

Luis Pablo Garcia as Sonny (Pre-Broadway Premiere of *The Karate Kid*) and Ryan Reyes (*Americano: The Musical* Off-Broadway) as Usnavi in Rubicon Theatre Company’s production of *In the Heights*. | Credit: Loren Haar Photography

Written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who took the world by storm in February 2015 with his hit musical Hamilton, In the Heights marked Miranda’s first work to premiere on Broadway in 1999 and the start of his multi-dimensional career as “a Pulitzer Prize, Grammy, Emmy, Tony Award-winning composer, lyricist, and actor.” The play was later adapted into a film in 2021, highlighting the ever-growing importance of Miranda’s works.