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Community Center Theater

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Situated in the heart of downtown at 13 & L Streets, directly across from Capitol Park and within walking distant to first-rate hotels and restaurants, the 2,422-seat Sacramento Community Center Theater is a popular venue for audiences and presenters alike. The Theater hosts a variety of top caliber events--from performances by Sacramento performing arts groups to national tours of singers, comedians, and Broadway musicals.

• At-a-
  Glance

  • Contact Info

    Community Center Theater

    1301 L Street
    Sacramento, CA 95814

    Phone: (916) 808-5291   |   Email   |   Official Website

  • Map

    Full map and directions

  • Parking Info

    Parking for the Sacramento Convention Center Complex including the Community Center Theater is available at the city-run Memorial Garage at 14th and H Streets and privately owned lots within walking distance of the facilities. Parking rates vary by location and event. Also, on-street parking meters surround the Convention Center. Parking for visitors with disabilities can be found in the parking lots and at meters.

  • Accessibility Services

    There is no accessibility service information available at this time.

  • Technical Specs

    2,422 seats

  • • Current Events

      There are no current events at this time.

  • • Upcoming Events

      05/23/12- 06/17/12	Wicked Community Center Theater Wicked Presented by Broadway Sacramento at Community Center Theater May 23-June 17, 2012 Wicked is a new musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Academy Award winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt) and book by Winnie Holzman (My So Called Life, Once And Again, and thirtysomething) based on the best-selling 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire. Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One--born with emerald green skin--is smart, fiery, and misunderstood. The...
      07/29/12	An Evening with Yanni Community Center Theater An Evening with Yanni Presented by Magic Space Entertainment at Community Center Theater July 29, 2012 Magic Space Entertainment presents an evening with Yanni. After an extensive world tour, Yanni returns to the USA and Canada with an all new show. Yanni and his musicians will perform many of his greatest instrumental hits, made famous in his shows from The Acropolis, The Taj Mahal, The Forbidden City, and England's Royal Albert Hall. This concert will also feature some of the music from Yanni's new album Truth Of Touch, which is the composer's first album of original studio music in...
      10/23/12	Sanjay Gupta, M.D. Community Center Theater Sanjay Gupta, M.D. Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series at Community Center Theater October 23, 2012 Sanjay Gupta, M.D. is the multiple Emmy-award winning chief medical correspondent for CNN. Dr. Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon, has medical training and public health policy experience that distinguishes his reporting on a range of medical and scientific topics including brain injury, disaster recovery, health care reform, fitness, military medicine, HIV/AIDS, and other areas. In addition to his work for CNN, Gupta is a member of the staff and faculty at the Emory School of Medicine.
      12/04/12	President Bill Clinton Community Center Theater President Bill Clinton Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series at Community Center Theater December 4, 2012 Under the presidency of President William Jefferson Clinton, the US enjoyed the longest economic expansion in its history, including the creation of more than 22 million jobs. After leaving the White House, President Clinton established the William J. Clinton Foundation with the mission to strengthen the capacity of people in the US and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence. He is currently the UN Special Envoy for Haiti and has written three best-selling...
      01/08/13	Thomas Friedman Community Center Theater Thomas Friedman Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series at Community Center Theater January 8, 2013 Columnist for The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winning author, TV documentarian: these are a few of the hats worn by Thomas Friedman, an intellectual the man in the street can look to for straight talk about our increasingly complex world. The titles of a few of his books say much about him: his newest, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestsellers list; his earlier Hot...
      01/29/13	Michelle A. Rhee Community Center Theater Michelle A. Rhee Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series at Community Center Theater January 29, 2013 Michelle Rhee is the founder and CEO of StudentsFirst, formed in response to the increasing demand for a better education system for all of our children, in every zip code. Before leading StudentsFirst, Ms. Rhee was a Teach for America corpsmember in Baltimore; founded The New Teacher Project to bring more excellent teachers to classrooms by reforming hiring practices; and served as chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools, where she brought the worst performing school district...
      02/27/13	Louise Leakey Community Center Theater Louise Leakey Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series at Community Center Theater February 27, 2013 Louise Leakey, paleontologist, conservationist, educator, and National Geographic explorer-in-residence, is the third generation of the famous Leakey family to dig for humanity’s past in East Africa. She and her team, The Koobi Fora Research Project, have made discoveries that may rewrite humanity’s evolutionary timeline: her 2007 find of H. habilis bones suggests that different species of pre-humans lived side-by-side at the same time for almost half of million years. Her...
      04/02/13	Robert Ballard Community Center Theater Robert Ballard Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series at Community Center Theater April 2, 2013 Robert Ballard is an underwater archaeologist, geophysicist, and educator. But he is best known for his amazing deep-sea discoveries: of the Titanic, the Bismarck, the USS Yorktown (while on a secret mission for the Navy, with the Titanic as his cover story) and John F. Kennedy’s PT-109. He was in the first team of scientists to view the deep-sea vents, and has been on more than 120 deep-sea expeditions. He shares his enthusiasm for deep-sea exploration with 1.7 million students a...

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• Current &
  Upcoming Events

  • Current Events

    There are no current events at this time.

  • Upcoming Events

    05/23/12- 06/17/12	Wicked Community Center Theater Wicked Presented by Broadway Sacramento at Community Center Theater May 23-June 17, 2012 Wicked is a new musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Academy Award winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt) and book by Winnie Holzman (My So Called Life, Once And Again, and thirtysomething) based on the best-selling 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire. Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One--born with emerald green skin--is smart, fiery, and misunderstood. The...
    07/29/12	An Evening with Yanni Community Center Theater An Evening with Yanni Presented by Magic Space Entertainment at Community Center Theater July 29, 2012 Magic Space Entertainment presents an evening with Yanni. After an extensive world tour, Yanni returns to the USA and Canada with an all new show. Yanni and his musicians will perform many of his greatest instrumental hits, made famous in his shows from The Acropolis, The Taj Mahal, The Forbidden City, and England's Royal Albert Hall. This concert will also feature some of the music from Yanni's new album Truth Of Touch, which is the composer's first album of original studio music in...
    10/23/12	Sanjay Gupta, M.D. Community Center Theater Sanjay Gupta, M.D. Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series at Community Center Theater October 23, 2012 Sanjay Gupta, M.D. is the multiple Emmy-award winning chief medical correspondent for CNN. Dr. Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon, has medical training and public health policy experience that distinguishes his reporting on a range of medical and scientific topics including brain injury, disaster recovery, health care reform, fitness, military medicine, HIV/AIDS, and other areas. In addition to his work for CNN, Gupta is a member of the staff and faculty at the Emory School of Medicine.
    12/04/12	President Bill Clinton Community Center Theater President Bill Clinton Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series at Community Center Theater December 4, 2012 Under the presidency of President William Jefferson Clinton, the US enjoyed the longest economic expansion in its history, including the creation of more than 22 million jobs. After leaving the White House, President Clinton established the William J. Clinton Foundation with the mission to strengthen the capacity of people in the US and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence. He is currently the UN Special Envoy for Haiti and has written three best-selling...
    01/08/13	Thomas Friedman Community Center Theater Thomas Friedman Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series at Community Center Theater January 8, 2013 Columnist for The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winning author, TV documentarian: these are a few of the hats worn by Thomas Friedman, an intellectual the man in the street can look to for straight talk about our increasingly complex world. The titles of a few of his books say much about him: his newest, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestsellers list; his earlier Hot...
    01/29/13	Michelle A. Rhee Community Center Theater Michelle A. Rhee Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series at Community Center Theater January 29, 2013 Michelle Rhee is the founder and CEO of StudentsFirst, formed in response to the increasing demand for a better education system for all of our children, in every zip code. Before leading StudentsFirst, Ms. Rhee was a Teach for America corpsmember in Baltimore; founded The New Teacher Project to bring more excellent teachers to classrooms by reforming hiring practices; and served as chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools, where she brought the worst performing school district...
    02/27/13	Louise Leakey Community Center Theater Louise Leakey Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series at Community Center Theater February 27, 2013 Louise Leakey, paleontologist, conservationist, educator, and National Geographic explorer-in-residence, is the third generation of the famous Leakey family to dig for humanity’s past in East Africa. She and her team, The Koobi Fora Research Project, have made discoveries that may rewrite humanity’s evolutionary timeline: her 2007 find of H. habilis bones suggests that different species of pre-humans lived side-by-side at the same time for almost half of million years. Her...
    04/02/13	Robert Ballard Community Center Theater Robert Ballard Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series at Community Center Theater April 2, 2013 Robert Ballard is an underwater archaeologist, geophysicist, and educator. But he is best known for his amazing deep-sea discoveries: of the Titanic, the Bismarck, the USS Yorktown (while on a secret mission for the Navy, with the Titanic as his cover story) and John F. Kennedy’s PT-109. He was in the first team of scientists to view the deep-sea vents, and has been on more than 120 deep-sea expeditions. He shares his enthusiasm for deep-sea exploration with 1.7 million students a...

• Past
  Events

  • Past Events

    04/18/12- 04/22/12	Million Dollar Quartet Community Center Theater
    04/14/12	English Grandeur Community Center Theater
    04/03/12	Lisa Ling Community Center Theater
    03/31/12	Tchaikovsky's Inspiration Community Center Theater
    03/28/12	Jackie Evancho Community Center Theater
    03/24/12	Anjelah Johnson Community Center Theater
    03/22/12	Kevin James & Ray Romano Community Center Theater
    03/13/12- 03/18/12	Mamma Mia! Community Center Theater
    03/04/12	An Evening with Garrison Keillor Community Center Theater
    03/03/12	C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters Community Center Theater
    03/01/12	Peter Greenberg Community Center Theater
    02/24/12- 02/26/12	Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi Community Center Theater
    02/18/12	Sacramento Loves Beethoven Community Center Theater
    02/09/12- 02/12/12	Cinderella Community Center Theater
    02/03/12	Paula Deen Live! Community Center Theater
    02/01/12	Richard Roeper Community Center Theater
    01/24/12- 01/29/12	West Side Story Community Center Theater
    01/21/12	The Romantics Community Center Theater
    01/14/12	Lewis Black: In God We Rust Community Center Theater
    01/11/12	Condoleezza Rice Community Center Theater
    01/09/12	MythBusters Behind The Myths (SOLD OUT) Community Center Theater
    12/27/11- 01/01/12	Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles Community Center Theater
    12/09/11- 12/23/11	The Nutcracker Community Center Theater
    11/30/11	United States Air Force Holiday Concert Community Center Theater
    11/29/11	David Gergen Community Center Theater
    11/26/11	George Lopez Vivo Community Center Theater
    11/19/11- 11/20/11	Sacramento Opera & Sacramento Philharmonic: Pagliacci Community Center Theater
    11/13/11	B.B. King Community Center Theater
    11/08/11- 11/09/11	Riverdance Community Center Theater
    10/29/11	Bill Cosby Community Center Theater
    10/22/11- 10/28/11	Dracula Community Center Theater
    10/15/11	Olga Kern Plays Rachmaninoff Community Center Theater
    10/11/11	David McCullough Community Center Theater
    10/09/11	Arts Open House: Arts Showcase & Interactive Fair Community Center Theater
    09/27/11- 10/02/11	Shrek the Musical Community Center Theater
    09/24/11	Johnny Mathis Community Center Theater
    09/16/11	Ron White: Moral Compass Tour Community Center Theater
    09/11/11	Cesar Millan: The Dog Whisperer Community Center Theater
    08/19/11	Bill Maher Community Center Theater
    07/17/11	Kathy Griffin Community Center Theater
    07/02/11	Donell Jones Community Center Theater
    06/02/11- 06/19/11	Mary Poppins Community Center Theater
    05/21/11	Homegrown Sacramento: Broadway Favorites Community Center Theater
    05/06/11- 05/08/11	The Postman Always Rings Twice (CANCELED) Community Center Theater
    04/29/11	Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain Tour Community Center Theater
    04/13/11- 04/24/11	Young Frankenstein Community Center Theater
    04/09/11	Hidden Meanings Community Center Theater
    04/05/11- 04/06/11	Shen Yun Community Center Theater
    04/04/11	Jeannette Walls Community Center Theater
    03/24/11- 03/27/11	Icons & Innovators Community Center Theater
    03/09/11- 03/20/11	9 to 5: The Musical Community Center Theater
    03/05/11	Angele Dubeau & La Pietà Community Center Theater
    03/03/11	Dr. Jane Goodall Community Center Theater
    03/02/11	Jackson Browne: Solo Acoustic Tour Community Center Theater
    02/25/11- 02/27/11	The Magic Flute (CANCELED) Community Center Theater
    02/20/11	Target Family Concert: Beethoven & Beyond Community Center Theater
    02/19/11	Basically Beethoven Community Center Theater
    02/16/11	John Hofmeister Community Center Theater
    02/10/11- 02/13/11	Romeo & Juliet Community Center Theater
    01/22/11	French Flair Community Center Theater
    01/21/11	Backstage Jazz Bistro Community Center Theater
    01/20/11	Tango Buenos Aires Community Center Theater
    01/15/11	Coming to America starring Jay White (CANCELED) Community Center Theater
    01/11/11	Tom Brokaw Community Center Theater
    12/29/10- 01/02/11	Cirque Dreams Holidaze Community Center Theater
    12/12/10	Nutcracker Sweet Sunday Community Center Theater
    12/10/10- 12/23/10	The Nutcracker Community Center Theater
    11/30/10	Peter Hillary Community Center Theater
    11/19/10- 11/21/10	Orlando Community Center Theater
    11/03/10- 11/14/10	In The Heights Community Center Theater
    10/27/10	Presidio Brass Community Center Theater
    10/17/10	Target Family Concert Community Center Theater
    10/16/10	Fire and Romance Community Center Theater
    10/11/10	Mrs. Laura W. Bush Community Center Theater
    09/29/10- 10/10/10	Burn The Floor Community Center Theater
    09/24/10	The Lowe Family Community Center Theater
    09/23/10	An Evening With Garrison Keillor Community Center Theater
    08/28/10- 08/29/10	Menopause the Musical Community Center Theater
    07/17/10- 07/18/10	Shen Yun Performing Arts Show Community Center Theater
    07/15/10	Equipe Spectra presents The Glenn Miller Orchestra Community Center Theater
    05/19/10- 05/30/10	A Chorus Line Community Center Theater
    05/16/10	Kevin Hart Community Center Theater
    05/15/10	An American in Paris Community Center Theater
    05/13/10	Frank Abagnale Community Center Theater
    05/07/10- 05/09/10	A Russian Affair: Community Center Theater
    04/14/10- 04/25/10	Little House on the Prairie Community Center Theater
    04/10/10	Midori Recital Community Center Theater
    04/08/10	Gene Krupa Orchestra & The Four Freshmen Community Center Theater
    04/06/10	Dr. Sylvia Earle Community Center Theater
    04/03/10	Recital de Rondallas/ Rondalla de Guadalupe Community Center Theater
    03/25/10- 03/28/10	Carmina Burana Community Center Theater
    03/10/10- 03/21/10	Chicago Community Center Theater
    02/26/10- 03/02/10	La Traviata Community Center Theater
    02/18/10	Hutchins Consort Community Center Theater
    02/11/10- 02/14/10	Nine Sinatra Songs Community Center Theater
    02/03/10- 02/07/10	Rent Community Center Theater
    01/14/10	Anthony and Joseph Paratore Piano Duo Community Center Theater
    12/30/09- 01/10/10	XANADU Community Center Theater
    12/13/09	Nutcracker Sweet Sunday Community Center Theater
    12/10/09- 12/23/09	Ron Cunningham's 'The Nutcracker' Community Center Theater