The Santa Rosa Players dba 6th Street Playhouse

The Santa Rosa Players (doing business as 6th Street Playhouse) produces a year-round season of classic and contemporary professional theater and musical theater in its renovated historic warehouse in downtown Santa Rosa, reaching an audience of more than 24,000 people annually. With twelve staged productions, an improv group, and all-ages theater classes, the organization plays an important cultural role in the community. Turmoil among its artistic and administrative leadership, predicated by an organizational financial crisis in 2012 that required emergency fundraising, has made the company vulnerable. However, local artists and theatergoers are starting to return, artistic reviews are positive, and plans to expand to a sixteen-production season signals that 6th Street Playhouse is rebuilding its reputation and sustainability.

The Santa Rosa Players (doing business as the 6th Street Playhouse) produces a year-round season of classic and contemporary professional theater and musical theater in its renovated historic warehouse in downtown Santa Rosa, reaching an audience of more than 20,000 people annually. With twelve staged productions, an improv group, all-ages theater classes, and arts enrichment programs for disadvantaged local kindergarten through sixth-grade students, the organization plays an important cultural role in the community. A poorly managed leadership transition was the focus of much of the past year, but with highly regarded new directors, both managing and artistic, the organization seems on a path to reengage the local community of artists and theatergoers.