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SAN LUIS OBISPO REPERTORY THEATRE

888 Morro Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401

A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story
11/21 - 12/21/2025


A San Luis Obispo Holiday Tradition! Celebrate the holiday season with  A Christmas Story , the beloved stage adaptation of Jean Shepherd’s classic tale of ...

Clue
Clue
1/9 - 1/18/2026


It’s a dark and stormy night, and you’ve been invited to a very unusual dinner party. Each of the guests has an alias, the butler ...

Ubu's Other Shoe Staged Reading: Anthropology


In Lauren Gunderson’s  Anthropology , a brilliant tech-savvy sister refuses to accept her younger sibling’s mysterious disappearance as a closed case. Using data, digital footprints, ...

Million Dollar Quartet
Million Dollar Quartet
1/30 - 3/8/2026


Back by popular demand after record-breaking SOLD OUT performances in 2019 and 2025! Step back in time to the legendary night of December 4, 1956, ...

Ubu's Other Shoe Staged Reading: Wife of a Salesman


When a devoted housewife – from a certain classic American drama – tracks down the woman who is sleeping with her husband, the two discover ...

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?


Winner of the Tony, Critics Circle, and Pulitzer Prize for best play in 1963,  Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf  is a masterful exploration of marriage, ...

The Lifespan of a Fact
The Lifespan of a Fact
5/1 - 5/17/2026


Winner of the Ovation, Drama-Logue and Graland awards,  Lifespan of a Fact  tells the story of a fresh-out-of-Harvard fact checker for a prominent but sinking ...



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Past Shows

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change


Get ready for a hilarious and heartfelt journey through love, dating, marriage, and everything in between! This show is the perfect date night—or friend night—out!

You're a good Man, Charlie Brown


Happiness is  great musical theatre! With charm, wit, and heart, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown explores life through the eyes of Charlie Brown and ...

I Hate Hamlet
I Hate Hamlet
5/2 - 5/18/2025


In Paul Rudnick’s hilarious dramatic comedy, when television star Andrew Rally moves back to New York and finds himself cast as Hamlet, nothing seems right. ...

The Cake
The Cake
3/28 - 4/13/2025


Della makes cakes, not judgment calls – those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to ...

Million Dollar Quartet
Million Dollar Quartet
2/7 - 3/9/2025


On a Tuesday night, shortly before Christmas 1956, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley gathered at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. ...

A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story
11/30 - 12/22/2024


Jean Shepherd’s memoir of growing up in the Midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder ...

Misery
Misery
10/11 - 10/27/2024


Misery follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash by his “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive ...

The Musical of Musicals (The Musical)


The basic plot of all five shows: June is an ingenue who can’t pay the rent and is threatened by her evil landlord. Will the ...

9 to 5 - The Musical
9 to 5 - The Musical
6/7 - 6/30/2024


Hey, a girl can scheme, can't she? Set in the late 1970s, this story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era is outrageous, thoughtprovoking and ...

The Thanksgiving Play
The Thanksgiving Play
5/3 - 5/19/2024


Good intentions collide with absurd assumptions in this wickedly funny satire, as a troupe of well-meaning, but hilariously misguided teaching artists scramble to create a ...

Ubu's Other Shoe Staged Reading: World Premiere


Title TBD — Experience being a part of the creative process as we present the world premiere of a brand new play....

What the Constitution Means to Me


Playwright Heidi Schreck’s boundary-breaking play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans. Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned ...

Ubu's Other Shoe Staged Reading: Constellations


This spellbinding, romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman. But what happens next defies the boundaries of the world ...

Beehive - The 60's Musical
Beehive - The 60's Musical
2/9 - 3/10/2024


A loving, rockin’ celebration of the 1960s and the powerful female voices whose music stands the test of time – including Diana Ross, Janis Joplin, ...

Suite Surrender
Suite Surrender
1/12 - 1/21/2024


It’s 1942, and two of Hollywood’s biggest divas have descended upon the luxurious Palm Beach Royale Hotel — assistants, luggage, and legendary feud with one ...

Xanadu
Xanadu
6/10 - 7/3/2022


San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre is delighted to bring roller-skating Greek muses, 1980s-style and the original, chart-topping score of XANADU to downtown San Luis Obispo ...

Every Brilliant Thing
Every Brilliant Thing
3/25 - 4/10/2022


Every Brilliant Thing is a one-person-show, a funny and moving tribute to resilience and hope that enlists you, the audience, to tell a heartfelt story. ...

The Marvelous Wonderettes
The Marvelous Wonderettes
6/5 - 7/3/2020


Welcome to the 1958 Springfield High School prom!Meet Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy, and Suzy, four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their ...

Every Brilliant Thing
Every Brilliant Thing
3/27 - 4/12/2020


Youre seven years old. Moms in the hospital. Dad says shes done something stupid. She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to ...

Jared Freiburg: In Concert
Jared Freiburg: In Concert
3/8 - 3/10/2020


Last seasons SLO REP production of MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET was one of the most well-loved shows that ever hit the SLO REP stage. Raucous, colorful, ...

Always...Patsy Cline
Always...Patsy Cline
2/7 - 3/8/2020


AlwaysPatsy Cline is a delightful musical about friendship, country music and a brilliant artist who left us all too soon. More than a tribute to ...

A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story
12/7 - 12/22/2019


Jean Shepherds memoir of growing up in the midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder ...

Deathtrap
Deathtrap
11/1 - 11/17/2019


Comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a dry spell which has resulted ...

Staged Reading: Mary Jane
Staged Reading: Mary Jane
10/18 - 10/19/2019


As Mary Jane navigates both the mundane and the unfathomable realities of caring for Alex, her chronically ill young son, she finds herself building a ...

The Fantasticks
The Fantasticks
9/13 - 10/13/2019


Try To Remember a time when this romantic charmer wasnt enchanting audiences around the world. The Fantasticks is the longest-running musical in the world and ...

Greater Tuna
Greater Tuna
8/9 - 8/25/2019


What do Arles Struvie, Thurston Wheelis, Aunt Pearl, Petey Fisk, Phineas Blye, and Rev. Spikes have in common? In this hilarious send-up of small-town morals ...

The Little Mermaid JR.
The Little Mermaid JR.
7/12 - 7/21/2019


The San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatres Academy of Creative Theatre (ACT) hits the stage this summer with one of Disneys most beloved stories: THE LITTLE ...

Hello, Dolly!
Hello, Dolly!
6/7 - 6/30/2019


SLO REPS 2018-2019 Season will come to an end with HELLO, DOLLY!, the Tony Award winning musical comedy about a matchmaker, a millionaire, a milliner ...

Blithe Spirit
Blithe Spirit
5/3 - 5/19/2019


SLO REP presents BLITHE SPIRIT, Noel Cowards much-revived, classic comedy about ghosts, mediums and marital bliss, delivered with properly restrained British hilarity. BLITHE SPIRIT runs ...

Million Dollar Quartet
Million Dollar Quartet
2/8 - 3/10/2019


SLO REP is thrilled to kick off the second half of their 2018-2019 Season with Million Dollar Quartet, a blockbuster rock n roll musical inspired ...

Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
1/11 - 1/20/2019


The San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre’s Academy of Creative Theatre will present a young performers’ version of Jane Austen’s classic novel PRIDE AND PREJUDICE , ...

A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story
11/30 - 12/23/2018


SLO REP presents A CHRISTMAS STORY, the holiday classic about young Ralphie Parker and his quest for a genuine Red Ryder BB Gun. Back by ...

The Santaland Diaries
The Santaland Diaries
12/8 - 12/15/2018


SLO REP presents THE SANTALAND DIARIES, David Sedaris’s delightfully thorny account of what it’s like to work as an elf in Macy’s Santaland during the ...

The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie
11/2 - 11/18/2018


SLO REP is proud to present Tennessee Wiliams’ classic drama, THE GLASS MENAGERIE. This intensely personal and brilliantly tender masterpiece exposes the complexity of our ...

Art
Art
9/28 - 10/14/2018


SLO REP presents ART, the Tony Award winning comedy by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton, that focuses on the meaning of art (in the ...

Staged Reading: The White Rose


SLO REP’s Ubu’s Other Shoe Staged Reading series presents a staged reading of THE WHITE ROSE by Lillian Groag, running Sep 14-15, Friday at 7 ...

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum


SLO REP will kick off the 2018-2019 Season with A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM a musical romp through Rome featuring ...

Staged Reading: Building the Wall


SLO REP’s Ubu’s Other Shoe Staged Reading series presents a staged reading BUILDING THE WALL by Robert Schenkkan, running July 27-28, Friday at 7 pm, ...

The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps
3/30 - 4/15/2018


The San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre is thrilled to present the hilarious comedy/ thriller THE 39 STEPS, adapted by Patrick Barlow from the book by ...

The Producers
The Producers
2/16 - 3/11/2018


The San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre is thrilled to launch the second half of their inaugural season as SLO County’s only nonprofit, professional theatre company ...

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Scott Capurro Comedy in Santa Barbara Scott Capurro Comedy
The California Theatre of Santa Rosa (12/27 - 12/27)
THE BOOK OF MORMON in Santa Barbara THE BOOK OF MORMON
The Granada Theatre (2/24 - 2/25)
The Lifespan of a Fact in Santa Barbara The Lifespan of a Fact
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre (5/1 - 5/17)
BLUE MAN GROUP in Santa Barbara BLUE MAN GROUP
The Granada Theatre (5/5 - 5/6)
Million Dollar Quartet in Santa Barbara Million Dollar Quartet
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre (1/30 - 3/8)
KINKY BOOTS in Santa Barbara KINKY BOOTS
The Granada Theatre (12/9 - 12/10)
PILOBOLUS in Santa Barbara PILOBOLUS
The Granada Theatre (3/18 - 3/19)
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