Pickleville Playhouse, Musical theatre in Garden City, United States

The Pickleville Playhouse is a musical theatre on the banks of Bear Lake in Garden City, Utah. The Larsen family built it in 1977, peeling white pine logs by hand and mixing concrete in wheelbarrows. Its 320 seats were moved at night from the old Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City and are still in use.

LeGrande and Betty Larsen built the theatre themselves starting in June 1977, with their six sons and one daughter, peeling white pine logs by hand and mixing concrete in wheelbarrows. They moved 320 seats from Salt Lake City's old Capitol Theatre at night and opened in August 1977 with the melodrama The Faithful Footman. Ownership later passed to their daughter Andrea Larsen Davis and her son TJ Davis.

The playhouse's best-known creation is Juanito Bandito, a Spanglish-speaking villain played by T.J. Davis, who first appeared in "Chuck Wagon's Wild West Showdown" in summer 2008 and headlined the next seven summers' shows. Each summer brings one melodrama and one Broadway show; in December the sister company Pickleville On Tour performs an original Christmas production in Logan and Salt Lake City.

The theatre presents performances from mid-June through early September with multiple shows each week, and also offers special presentations during December. Booking tickets in advance is recommended to ensure seating at this popular venue.

The character Juanito Bandito, a Spanglish-speaking crook played by T.J. Davis, first appeared in "Chuck Wagon's Wild West Showdown" in summer 2008 and headlined the next seven summers of shows, including "The Hanging of El Bandito" (2009) and "Who Shot Juanito Bandito?" (2011).