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The Santa Monica Pier will become a theater in August. The Pacific Theatre Ensemble will venture out over the Pacific, presenting a Shakespearean comedy in a 200-seat space at the western end of the pier.
Admission will be free. The city is putting up $15,000 for the production, and the ensemble hopes to match that amount in a fund-raising campaign, said artistic director Stephanie Shroyer. This will be the first Actors' Equity-contract show for the ensemble, which has won acclaim for its smaller-theater productions of such shows as "Slaughterhouse on Tanner's Close" and "South Central Rain."
The Pacific Theatre Ensemble won't be the only theatrical group on the pier. The Aresis Ensemble, formerly based at the Off-Main Street Theatre, plans to present a production of "Wozzeck" in a 49-seat space next to the carrousel in September, said the group's Charles Duncombe. Aresis has arranged to rent the space from the...