PCPA THEATERFEST presents its production of Peter Pan through Dec. 23, Marian Theatre, Allan Hancock College, 800 S College, Santa Maria. $28 through $32.50. More info: 922-8313, pcpa.org.
THE POETRY SOCIETY OF SANTA MARIA invites all to read poetry, sing songs, or just express themselves every other Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Coffee and Company, 245 Town Center West, Santa Maria. More info: 928-6492, coffeencompany@yahoo.com.
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THE GREAT AMERICAN MELODRAMA presents its annual “Holiday Extravaganza” featuring three plays: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Sleeping Beauty, and the Holiday Vaudeville Review showing Nov. 18 through Dec. 31. Showtimes vary, Great American Melodrama, Highway 1, Oceano. More info: 489-2499, americanmelodrama.com.
WESTMONT COLLEGE presents a stripped-down student production of “Macbeth” Dec. 10 and 11 8 p.m., Porter Theatre, Westmont College, 955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara. More info: 565-7140, scraig@westmont.edu, westmont.edu.
THE COASTAL CHAMBER YOUTH BALLET presents its production of “Babes in Toyland” Dec. 11 1 and 6 p.m., Clark Center for the Performing Arts, 487 Fair Oaks Ave., Arroyo Grande. $22, $18 for children. More info: 489-5678, tracy@digitalassist.com, coastaldanceandmusicacademy.com.
THE CIVIC BALLET presents its holiday production of The Nutcracker Dec. 11 at 2 and 7 p.m. and Dec. 12 at 2 and 6 p.m., Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center, Cal Poly, SLO. More info: 756-2787, pac.calpoly@gmail.com.
MURDER IN MIND PRODUCTIONS presents its interactive murder mystery dinner theatre production of “The Golden Girls-Meet Blanche’s Niece” Sundays Dec. 12 through Jan. 30 5 p.m., Spyglass Inn Restaurant, 2703 Spyglass Drive, Shell Beach. $48.95. More info: 489-3875, murderinmind.com.
UCSB ARTS AND LECTURES presents National Theatre Live and its production of Hamlet by William Shakespeare directed by Nicholas Hytner Dec. 13 and 14 7:30 p.m., UCSB Campbell Hall, Santa Barbara. $18, $10 for students. More info: 893-3535, meghan.henry@sa.ucsb.edu, artsandlectures.ucsb.edu.
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE presents its production of Hamlet directed by Nicholas Hytner Dec. 13 and 14 7:30 p.m., Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara. $18, $10 for students. More info: 893-3535, meghan.henry@sa.ucsb.edu, artsandlectures.ucsb.edu.
This article appears in Dec 9-16, 2010.