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.
Worth The Drive
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.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL is a ballet rendition with orchestration by Sir Thomas Beecham and narrated by Gilbert Reed Dec. 4 at 2 and 7 p.m. and Dec. 5 at 2 p.m., Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center, Cal Poly, SLO. More info: 756-2787, pac.calpoly@gmail.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.
This article appears in Dec 2-9, 2010.