Sacramento Theater Company

MISSION & HISTORY
MISSION STATEMENT
Sacramento Theatre Company (STC) strives to be the leader in integrating professional theatre with theatre arts education. STC produces engaging professional theatre, provides exceptional theatre training, and uses theatre as a tool for educational engagement.
OUR HISTORY
The theatre was originally formed as the Sacramento Civic Repertory Theatre in 1942, an ad hoc troupe formed to entertain locally-stationed troops during World War II. Realizing success on a tour of local military bases, the Sacramento Civic Repertory Theatre aspired to have a theatre of its own. On October 18, 1949, it achieved that goal with the opening of the Eaglet Theatre, named in honor of the Eagle, a Gold Rush-era theatre built largely of canvas, that had stood on the city’s riverfront in the 1850s; a “little theatre,” as community theatres of the time were often called, the SCRT’s home was considered a “little Eagle.” The Eaglet Theatre benefited from the patronage of newspaper executive and heiress Eleanor McClatchy, an enthusiastic theatre supporter. It was also, briefly, the creative home of aspiring actor Tom Hanks.