Santa Cruz Shoestring Players
2026/2027 Season
Our company has produced a variety of plays, from comedies and dramas to mysteries and musicals.
We try to bring our community new award-winning plays as well as traditional classics
so there is something new and different in every season alongside the familiar favorites!
Disney Descendants
Shoestring Kids Summer Camp Musical
Directed by: Claire Margaret Corlett & Regina Ford
Based on the popular Disney Channel films, Disney's Descendants: The Musical follows the teenage children of Disney's most infamous villains as they leave their prison island for an elite prep school, where they must choose between following in their parents' wicked footsteps or embracing goodness.
Twenty years after banishing all Disney villains to the isolated Isle of the Lost, the kingdom of Auradon is at peace. Ben, the soon-to-be king and son of Belle and the Beast, announces his first decree: four children from the Isle will be allowed to attend Auradon Prep alongside the children of beloved Disney heroes.
George Washington's Teeth
by Mark St. Germain
Directed by Susan Voorhees
With time running out to renew their lease, the women of the beleaguered New Bunion Historical Society must find creative ways to snare new members and lure visitors to their sleepy New England town. When a set of George Washington’s dentures turns up in the hands of an unexpected rival, the ladies of the society brace themselves for all-out war. Heartfelt and historic, this farce proves that our differences don’t divide us, they make us strong.
George Washington’s Teeth is produced through special arrangement with Concord Theatricals.
And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
Directed by Regina Ford
Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they’re unwilling to reveal and a secret that will seal their fate… for each has been marked for murder. As the weather turns and the group is cut off from the mainland, the bloodbath begins; one by one, they are brutally murdered in accordance with the lines of a sinister nursery rhyme about “Ten Little Soldier Boys.” One of Agatha Christie’s most foreboding tales and a masterpiece of dramatic construction, this classic play’s growing sense of dread and unfaltering tension will keep you guessing to the very end.
And Then There Were None is produced through special arrangement with Concord Theatricals.
The Nerd
by Larry Shue
Directed by Chad Eggen
Aspiring, talented, but unassuming architect Willum Cubbert, has often told his friends about the debt he owes to Rick Steadman, a fellow ex-GI whom he has never met but who saved his life after he was seriously wounded in Vietnam. He has written to Rick to say that, as long as he is alive, “you will have somebody on Earth who will do anything for you” – so Willum is delighted when Rick shows up unexpectedly at his apartment on the night of Willum's birthday party. But his delight soon fades as it becomes apparent that Rick is a hopeless “nerd” – a bumbling oaf with no social sense, little intelligence and less tact. This leads to escalating hilarity and tension as Willum grapples with repaying his life debt.
The Nerd is produced through special arrangement with Concord Theatricals.
Six Performances
June 18 7pm
June 19 3pm
June 20 3pm
June 25 7pm
June 26 3pm
June 27 3pm
The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It
by Don Nigro (and William Shakespeare)
Directed by Rae H. Williams
"The record of one company's attempt to perform the play by William Shakespeare." How do you present a Shakespeare play with a third of the actors? A rag tag acting troupe led by a dotty old curate is tasked to perform one of Shakespeare’s most comedic plays, As You Like It. The hilarious attempts of seven actors to impersonate all of Shakespeare’s characters make this show a zany romp through a classic.
The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It is produced through special arrangement with Concord Theatricals.
Shoestring Readers
The Shoestring Readers Theatre group meets every Monday at 11 a.m. in the rehearsal studio at the Community Performance and Art Center. The group reads scripts and performs in a variety of local venues including the Green Valley Library. The Shoestring Readers Theatre is open to everyone and there are no fees! You may also just drop in and listen to see what readers theater is all about. Experience in theater or script memorization is not required. Acting instruction, as well as directing opportunities are available. Playwrights are also encouraged to submit scripts for the group to read aloud, allowing the playwright to hear their work read.
For more information, contact Regina Ford!
Director: Regina Ford
Join the fun every Monday at 11 a.m. in the rehearsal studio at the Community Performance and Art Center!
Past Shows
2025-2026 Season
Unnecessary Farce
Matilda Jr. (Shoestring Kids)
Office Party
Spider's Web
Into The Woods
Spider's Web
Into The Woods
Spider's Web
Into The Woods
Spider's Web
Into The Woods
Spider's Web
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Spider's Web
Into The Woods
The Fantasticks
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
(ft. Reader's Theatre)
Shoestring Summer Showcase
2024-2025 Season
2023-2024 Season
2024-2025 Season
Into The Woods
Spider's Web
The Viewing Room
Spider's Web
Into The Woods
Spider's Web
Into The Woods
Spider's Web
Into The Woods
Spider's Web
Into The Woods
Spider's Web
Into The Woods
Spider's Web
Into The Woods
Readers Theatre
(Reader's Theatre)
Lion King Jr.
(Shoestring Kids)
The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery
2023-2024 Season
Spider's Web
Into The Woods
Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery
Spider's Web
Into The Woods
Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery
Spider's Web
Into The Woods
Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery
Spider's Web
Into The Woods
Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery
Spider's Web
Into The Woods
Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery
Spider's Web
Into The Woods
Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery
Lucky Stiff
The Importance of Being Earnest
On Golden Pond
45 Minutes from Broadway
Readers Theatre
(Readers Theatre)
Oliver Jr.
(Shoestring Kids)
The Viewing Room
Spider's Web
Into The Woods
Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery
Ancient Shows:
2022-2023
I Want My Mummy... Ripcord... Murder on the Orient Express... Once Upon a Mattress
2021-2022
All Together Now... The Good Doctor... The Pirates of Penzance... Harvey
2020-2021
Love Letters
2019-2020
Little Shop of Horrors... Over the River and Through the Woods...
2018-2019
Out of Order... Guys and Dolls... The Dining Room
2017-2018
The Man Who Came to Dinner... Boeing Boeing... Exit Laughing
2016-2017
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me... Private Lives... See How They Run... Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
2015-2016
Almost, Maine... The Curious Savage... Life on the Bowery
2014-2015
Run for Your Wife... Plaza Suite... The Glass Menagerie
2013-2014
Crimes of the Heart... You Can’t Take it With You... Fox on the Fairway... Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
2012-2013
The Miser... Junie B Jingle Bells... Batman Smells... Arsenic and Old Lace... The Mousetrap
2011-2012
Proof... Born Yesterday
2010-2011
Night of the Iguana... The Best Christmas Pageant Ever... Sylvia... Zombies from the Beyond
2009-2010
The Laramie Project... Blithe Spirit... The Spitfire Grill
2008-2009
The Impostures of Scapin... Book of Days... A Woman of No Importance... The Great American Trailer Park Musical