Current Productions
Love, Death and the Prom
Love, Death & The Prom is a set of seven mini-plays that connect and create a fascinating full evening of theatre. These plays are real, hard-hitting, poignant and funny, exploring the struggles of being a teenager. The title of this work is entirely appropriate. The play begins with Love in ways that are at times touching and at other times wryly humorous. Then the play proceeds to Death as some young people have to cope with the staggering news of a suicide. And, of course, it ends with The Prom. Out of these three related themes comes a fulfilling sense of beginning to understand, appreciate and enjoy these people and this time of life.
Shows at the Santa Cruz Actors' Theater
Saturday July 20, 2pm & 7pm
Sunday July 21, 2pm
Guys & Dolls
Set in Depression-era Times Square, Guys and Dolls is about a couple of big city gamblers and the women who love them. It tells the overlapping stories of high-roller Sky Masterson, who falls in love with mission worker Sarah Brown, and lovable rapscallion Nathan Detroit, engaged for 14 years to Miss Adelaide, a headliner at the Hot Box Club.
Nathan runs a famous floating crap game, and an ongoing plot line involves his quest for a safe place for the game as Adelaide continues her quest to convince him to marry her. Meanwhile, Sarah, mistakenly believing that Sky set up an illegal game at the mission, tries to fight her affection for the charismatic crapshooter. This Golden Age musical is one of the best classics out there, fun, lighthearted and full of toe tapping melodies you'll be singing for days after.
Shows at Harbor High Little Theater
Friday July 26, 7pm
Saturday July 27, 2pm & 7pm
Sunday July 28, 2pm
Heathers: The Musical
Heathers: The Musical is the darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg High: the Heathers.
But before she can get comfortable atop the high school food chain, Veronica falls in love with the dangerously sexy new kid J.D. When Heather Chandler, the Almighty, kicks her out of the group, Veronica decides to bite the bullet and kiss Heather's aerobicized ass...but J.D. has another plan for that bullet.
Shows at London Nelson Community Center
Friday August 16, 7pm
Saturday August 17, 7pm
Sunday August 18, 2pm
Thursday August 22, 7pm
Friday August 23, 7pm
Saturday August 24, 2pm & 7pm
Our Mission
Renegade Theater Co. creates opportunities for creatives to explore performing arts in new and exciting ways. Renegade values the process of creating theater collaboratively rather than focusing solely on the product and it prioritizes inclusivity and representation of diversity. Renegade strives for quality artistic expression without sacrificing the mental health of our cast, crew and staff.
We create profound theatrical experiences that allow those involved to grow and learn, and to contribute towards creating a strong and supportive community, both within the company itself and as a part of the greater society that we live in. We believe that art should enhance and enrich the community as a whole by pushing us to think in new ways, and to step outside our comfort zone.