The Sixty Grit Theater Company

02/28/2026

Check-out THE BEST OF THE REST FEST at Santa Cruz County Actors' Theatre!
Featuring a The Sixty Grit Theater Company favorite: Helene Simkin Jara and many others!

More short-play goodness coming your way with the Best of the Rest. Opens Friday, Feb 27 and plays for two weekends.

04/23/2025

HAPPY 561ST BIRTHDAY
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

Check-out SHAKESPEARE GALA benefitting Santa Cruz County Actors' Theatre. Featuring some of Santa Cruz’ top talent.

Tonight thru Saturday!

Tickets at:
https://ci.ovationtix.com/35410/store/donations

07/23/2024

JIMMY CARTER.
This meme has been being shared the last few days. Jimmy Carter is the favorite president of The Sixty Grit Theater Company.

Join us at our upcoming reading of Susan Lamberts feminist retelling of the Carter Administration, through a gender-fluid lens and bookended by the 2016 Presidential Election in CONFIDENCE (& THE SPEECH).

07/22/2024

JOE BIDEN 🇺🇸 & JIMMY CARTER 🇺🇸
Join The Sixty Grit Theater Company for an upcoming reading of the play CONFIDENCE (& THE SPEECH).

CONFIDENCE (& THE SPEECH) is a feminist retelling of the Carter administration Camp David crisis of July 2-15, 1979.

Susan Lambert’s script show the days leading up to the Confidence/Malaise Speech thru a gender-fluid lens — and bookended by trials of the 2016 US Presidential Election.

07/16/2024

CONFIDENCE/MALAISE SPEECH.
45 years ago, tonight!
July 15, 1979.
Where were you?
Do you remember the speech?

President Carter addressed the National Oil Crisis in a 30min speech from the Oval Office
— which defined his Presidency
— as either the Best or Worst
in U.S. History.

What’s your take?

Have you seen the play about the writing of The Speech?

The full "Crisis of Confidence Speech". Full transcripts can be found here:http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3402. I do not claim the r...

07/04/2014

07/18/2013

90-second Wrap-Up of BARD, BEAT$, & BURLESQUE!!!
http://santacruzfringefestival.com/index.php/tickets/by-genre/comedy/item/158-greg-paroff-the-sixty-grit-theater-company
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Sampling of thee Opening Performance of The Sixty Grit Theater Company's ENGEL THE ELDER'S: BARD, BEATS$, & BURLESQUE!!! Featuring Valentina Ballerina and Bu...

07/15/2013

Audiences LOVED yesterdays SOLD-OUT performance of Engel the Elder's BARD, BEAT$, & BURLESQUE!!! 4 MORE shows. Thursday thru Saturday (2 next Sat)! Links, media, and everything you need to know about Greg Paroff's newest show at the Indiegogo Page below!!!

Come to the Santa Cruz Fringe in July for BARD, BEAT$ & BURLESQUE!!! -- a madcap salute to everything Shaxpere.

07/13/2013

Will you be there? Our new show makes its World Premier in 30-minutes. Starring the lovely Valentina, and the Detective, Buck Wild.

07/11/2013

Article running today (online and in-print) in The Santa Cruz Sentinel about our show that's getting ready to open in The Santa Cruz Fringe Festival. Read it here: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/entertainment/ci_23636181/kirby-scudder-greg-paroff-brings-shakespeare-fringe

The French and Latin terms "frenge," "frimbia" and "fimbriae" first made their way into Western language in the 14th century.

07/09/2013

Great TECH REHEARSAL last night for our show BARD, BEAT$, & BURLESQUE!!! at Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center. Brought in the White Rabbit and BURLESQUE DANCER Valentina Ballerina. Check out this video of host, Engel the Elder being interviewed by BUCK WILD for the show at The Santa Cruz Fringe Festival. Also, check out our Indiegogo project here (http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/engel-the-elder-s-bard-beat-burlesque-at-santa-cruz-fringe--2/x/3847477?c=pledges)

Buck Wild interviews Engel The Elder about his show BARD, BEAT$ & BURLESQUE! for the Santa Cruz Fringe Festival 2013