The Lobero Theatre is an historic building in Santa Barbara, California, United States.

The theater was originally built as an opera house, in a refurbished adobe school building, by Italian immigrant José Lobero in 1873.

[1] Located downtown at the corner of Anacapa and Canon Perdido streets, the Lobero Theatre is registered as a California Historical Landmark.

By the early 1920s, the old opera house was becoming dilapidated and was rebuilt as a theater, to Spanish Colonial Revival style designs by architects George Washington Smith and Lutah Maria Riggs.

The Lobero Theater opened in August 1924, during a period in which civic groups in Santa Barbara were beginning to unify the town's architectural look around a Spanish Colonial style.