Welcome to the Center

The Camino Real Playhouse

For 20 years theatre going audiences have been entertained by plays, musicals and melodramas at the Camino Real Playhouse in South Orange County. If you know of any of the theatre divisions of the Capistrano Center for the Performing Arts ... it is likely the Playhouse which is headed up by Nick Charles. Across from the Mission in San Juan Capistrano ... The Camino Real Playhouse has become the "Entertainment Destination" for thousands with great Main Stage and Black Box productions. This season began with Noises Off and to be followed by the every popular A Christmas Story, then by our Annual Playwriting Festival - ShowOff 2010, to start of 2010. Our Annual Melodrama - San Juan's Dirty Laundry, arrives with the swallows in Capistrano to be followed by a hilarious comedy  Don't Dress For Dinner, and then the classic musical The King and I, The season finishes with our  Summer Shakespeare Festival know as CapoShakes and a special Shakespearean Melodrama entitled The Merchant of Menace.

 

 

Click Here to Visit the Camino Real Playhouse's Website or Buy Your Tickets

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The Capistrano Acting Academy

 

The Capistrano Acting Academy is a place where kids and adults can both have fun and develop the skills needed to succeed as a working actor. Our affiliation with the Acting Academy for Kids, managed and directed by Stephen Zygo, brings your children a fun and enriching series of musical theatre classes during the school year and intensive theatre workshops during the summer months. Adult acting programs have now been added to the CAA curriculum and enable working adults the opportunity to improve their acting, auditioning, and improvisational skills. Please take a moment to review our classes then enroll yourself or your child for a truly enriching experience. The more that you and your children enjoy and participate in our programs ... the more that you will understand the importance of theatre arts in America.

 

 

Click Here to Learn More or Enroll Your Children for CAA's Youth Programs

 

Click Here to Learn More about CAA's Life Enriching Adult Acting Programs

 

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Capistrano Shakespeare Festival - CapoShakes

 

Since 2002 the Capistrano Shakespeare Festival has been held under the stars on the beautiful outdoor stage in San Juan Capistrano's Historic Town Center Park, which just happens to be adjacent to the Camino Real Playhouse. In 2010 be prepared for something you have heretofore not see in a Shakespeare Festival ... at least not here is San Juan Capistrano. CapoShakes will not only have two crowd pleasing Shakespeare plays ... but will be adding a specially created Shakespearean Melodrama to our Summer festival. Tickets are not quite yet available ... but will be soon, so be sure to mark your calendars for our highly anticipated productions of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, and the World Premier of  The Merchant of Menace - A Shakespearean Melodrama.

 

 

Click Here to Learn More or to Mark Your Calendar for This Year's Festival

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Capistrano Melodrama Theatre

 

In San Juan Capistrano we have our own brand of authentic old-west style melodrama. In fact our melodramas have been thrilling audiences each season for decades ... where everyone joins in the fun by cheering the hero, booing the villain and tossing the occasional foam "rock" at that vile and reprehensible scoundrel. So ... if you are prepared to turn back the pages of your calendar and would like a hilarious time that appeals to all ages. Click the link below to find out more about this great American Theatre Art and then purchase tickets for our 2010 production of the Melodrama  San Juan's Dirty Laundry ... which celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Playhouse in San Juan Capistrano. If one melodrama is just not enough for you ... we are adding a Shakespearean Melodrama to our Summer Shakespeare Festival. 

 

 

Click Here to Learn More, Purchase Tickets or Just Get More Melodramatic

 

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Broadway Under The Stars - A Fundraising Event

Each year the Capistrano Center for the Performing Arts hosts an evening extravaganza to showcase the talents of local and Broadway talent while raising funds for the future growth of the Playhouse facilities in San Juan Capistrano. In 2009 the CCPA partnered with the spectacular Vintage Restaurant in the San Juan Depot for a progressive dinner and entertainment event. The meal was sumptuous, there was a silent auction, a life auction and entertainment galore. If you missed the event and would still like to contribute to the future growth of performing arts in San Juan ... click on our Donation Link above. We will be adding additional fundraising opportunities in the future and will be announcing the availability of tickets for Broadway Under the Stars for 2010 ... so come back when you can.

 

 

Click to Learn More, Buy Tickets Online and Support the Growth of the CCPA