Playhouse Merced

True love, passion, loyalty and devotion and their opposites — hatred, jealousy, deception, and betrayal — were forcefully portrayed on the stage of Playhouse Merced last weekend when a talented cast performed William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, “Othello”, a work believed to have been written in 1603. The intriguing and chilling production…

Through thrilling live vocal numbers, dance performances, and skits representative of its upcoming productions — and with accompaniment by Musical Director…

In its production of “Little Women The Broadway Musical,” a talented Playhouse Merced cast does an amazing job of bringing to life the charming tale of the…

Over the weekend, audiences at Playhouse Merced were treated to its Young Artists Conservatory’s extraordinary production of “James and the Giant Peach Jr.” The musical is based on author Roald Dahl’s classical whimsical story of a young boy, James (played by Nate Alvarez), whose parents have been tragically killed in an accident with a…

Playhouse Merced’s production of “Driving Miss Daisy” by Alfred Uhry, set in 1948 to the 1970s Atlanta, Georgia with the civil rights movement as a…

Playhouse Merced’s production of “Disney’s Peter Pan Jr.,” a show with a cast of children ages 4 to 12, ran Dec. 17 through Dec. 20, at the theater at 452…

Playhouse Merced staged the well-known holiday classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life” as a unique live radio broadcast in a production directed by Sandra Hay performed at the Merced Multicultural Arts Center on the weekend of Dec. 21. It was based on Frank Capra’s film by the same name released in 1946 and based on a short story written in 1939. …

Jane Eyre, a musical based on the classic novel by Charlotte Brontё, opens at Playhouse Merced on Friday, May 4, and runs for two weekends, ending with a…

“Next to Normal,” the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical about a family struggling with mental illness, will be performed at Playhouse Merced…

Well-known Playhouse Merced Theatre performer G.B. Blackmon delights children of all ages with an interactive and multimedia.program.