How do you find a community theater or one of it’s close relatives? I mean if there is someone who decides that they really want to be on stage and everybody says take acting class and do community theater how do you find a theater that will take you with no experience?

More specific to me. how do i find those theaters in the South bay area of  Southern California?

Rebekah -

Thanks for asking.  Here's what I just did to get you started.  The American Association of Community Theatres (AACT) is a national organization serving community theatre throughout the country.  Certainly, not every single community theatre in the country has a relationship with AACT, but there is enough information and contacts on their website that can get you started.  Here are a couple of links I found on the AACT website that might be helpful to you:

This is a listing of member organizations in Region VIII of AACT, which includes California.  There are a number of community theatres listed in CA and maybe one of them is near you - or near enough to you to contact and see if anyone there knows of any others closer to you:

    http://www.aact.org/PublicSearchPro.html

The AACT site also has a list of state contacts and this is the listing for California:

CA

Gil

Savage

San Diego

gilsavage@yahoo.com

For more info on AACT, go to www.aact.org

You might also contact the California State Arts Council or an equivalent organization.

Keep us posted if you find out about anything!  And, as we say, break a leg!

When you say South Bay, are you near Chula Vista?