16 Best Performing Arts in The Central Coast, California

The city celebrates its Spanish, Mexican, and Chumash heritage in early August with events that include music, dancing, an all-equestrian parade, a carnival, and a rodeo.

This Moorish-style auditorium presents touring performers and films throughout the year.

This venue hosts plays, music, dance, and readings.

The company stages classic and contemporary comedies, musicals, and dramas.

The festival celebrates five centuries of classical music during popular concert series held intermittently from mid-summer to early spring.

Artists of all ages create 150 large-scale pastel drawings on the pavement near the Old Mission steps during an Italian street painting festival held Memorial Day weekend.

A state landmark, the Lobero hosts community theater groups and touring professionals.

The academy presents orchestral, chamber, and operatic works every summer.

Since 1947, this early-June festival has attracted internationally known progressive and traditional musicians for outdoor concerts in Libbey Park.

A truly great performance space, the center hosts live theater, dance, and music.

Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts presents crowd-pleasing musicals like A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder and Million Dollar Quartet, as well as Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, and contemporary plays at this 700-seat outdoor amphitheater.

More than 100,000 revelers celebrate the arts at this mid-June event whose highlight is a huge parade of costumed participants who dance, drum, and ride people-powered floats up State Street.

A restored, modernized landmark that dates from 1924, the Granada hosts Broadway touring shows and dance, music, and other cultural events.

At this 3,300-seat, Mission-style venue with good food, wine, and sight lines, you can enjoy acclaimed musicians in concert.