Fall Theater Preview

Our Guide to the Cultural Delights Coming to the Stage

By Leslie Dinaberg, Maggie Yates, and Josef Woodard
October 9, 2025


Credit: Matt Crockett, Loren Haar, Matthew Murphy

Those gorgeous autumnal moons aren’t the only golden views around Santa Barbara this fall season. From the inspired ideas of Jane Austen to works from Jonny Donohoe, George Bernard Shaw, William Shakespeare, Orson Welles, Charles Dickens, Alanis Morissette, and the Million Dollar Quartet of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley, here’s our roundup of cultural theatrical showstoppers happening around town over the next few months.

—Leslie Dinaberg


Something for Everyone in the Theater This Season

From Jane Austen to Elvis Presley
and Every Brilliant Thing in Between


A Brilliant Musical-Comedy Thing, with Serious Intentions

Every Brilliant Thing’s Jonny Donahoe Is Back
with Jonny & The Baptists, Again Benefitting New Beginnings

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