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San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre

888 Morro Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401


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Past Shows

The Lifespan of a Fact

The Lifespan of a Fact

May 1 – May 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 New York...

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Mar 27 – Apr 12, 2026

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, illusion, and...

Million Dollar Quartet

Million Dollar Quartet

Jan 30 – Mar 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, when...

Ubu's Other Shoe Staged Reading: Anthropology

Ubu's Other Shoe Staged Reading: Anthropology

Jan 23 – Jan 24, 2026

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, and artificial...

Clue

Clue

Jan 9 – Jan 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...

A Christmas Story

A Christmas Story

Nov 21 – Dec 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 1940s childhood dreams...

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change

Aug 22 – Sep 21, 2025

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

You're a good Man, Charlie Brown

Jun 6 – Jun 29, 2025

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 his...

I Hate Hamlet

I Hate Hamlet

May 2 – May 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

Mar 28 – Apr 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

Feb 7 – Mar 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

Nov 30 – Dec 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

Oct 11 – Oct 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 Musical of Musicals (The Musical)

Aug 16 – Sep 15, 2024

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

Jun 7 – Jun 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

May 3 – May 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...

What the Constitution Means to Me

What the Constitution Means to Me

Mar 29 – Apr 14, 2024

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...

Beehive - The 60's Musical

Beehive - The 60's Musical

Feb 9 – Mar 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

Jan 12 – Jan 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

Jun 10 – Jul 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

Mar 25 – Apr 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

Jun 5 – Jul 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

Mar 27 – Apr 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

Mar 8 – Mar 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

Feb 7 – Mar 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

Dec 7 – Dec 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

Nov 1 – Nov 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

Oct 18 – Oct 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

Sep 13 – Oct 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

Aug 9 – Aug 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.

Jul 12 – Jul 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!

Jun 7 – Jun 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

May 3 – May 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

Feb 8 – Mar 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

Jan 11 – Jan 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

Nov 30 – Dec 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

Dec 8 – Dec 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

Nov 2 – Nov 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

Sep 28 – Oct 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

Staged Reading: The White Rose

Sep 14 – Sep 15, 2018

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...

Staged Reading: Building the Wall

Staged Reading: Building the Wall

Jul 27 – Jul 28, 2018

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

Mar 30 – Apr 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

Feb 16 – Mar 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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