In Gutenberg! The Musical!, two wildly overconfident writers stage a shoestring backers’ audition for their ridiculous new show about printing press pioneer Johann Gutenberg. Armed with hats, props, zero budget and unshakable enthusiasm, Bud and Doug perform every role in their...
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It’s a big ocean out there and for young Nemo, a clownfish with an adventurous spirit, it’s calling his name. But when he ventures too far from home and is captured by a scuba diver, his anxious and overprotective father Marlin must face his deepest fears and cross an entire...
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 magazine. John D’Agata is a talented writer with a transcendent essay about the suicide of a teenage boy—an essay...
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 truth. Albee’s sharp dialogue and complex characters create an intense, captivating portrayal of emotional...
When a devoted housewife – from a certain classic American drama – tracks down the woman who is sleeping with her husband, the two discover that they have more in common than society would like them to believe. A staged reading is a form of theatre without sets or complete...
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 four rock ‘n’ roll icons—Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins—came together for an unforgettable jam...
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 intelligence, she launches her own investigation—blurring the lines between truth...
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 offers a variety of weapons, and the host is, well, dead. So whodunit? Join the iconic oddballs known as Scarlet, Plum, White, Green, Peacock, and...
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 and holiday misadventures. Follow 9-year-old Ralphie Parker on his determined quest for the ultimate...
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!
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 friends in the Peanuts gang. Musical numbers include My Blanket and Me, The Kite, The Baseball Game, Little Known Facts...
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. With lucrative offers of shallow television shows, self doubt, fear of the greatest of roles, and a girlfriend who won’t...
Della makes cakes, not judgment calls – those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to North Carolina to get married, and the fiancé is actually a fiancée, Della’s life gets turned upside down. She can’t really make a cake for such a...
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. This was their only performance together, a cultural flashpoint that caught rock ‘n’ roll at the moment of creation...
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 BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself, at Higbee’s...
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 in her secluded home. While Paul is convalescing, Annie reads his latest book and becomes enraged when she discovers the author...
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 handsome leading man come to the rescue? From Sondheim’s tortured artistic genius to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock musical, don’t miss this delightful comic...
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 even a little romantic. Pushed to the boiling point, three female coworkers concoct a plan to get even with their egotistical...
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 school pageant that can somehow celebrate both Turkey Day and Native American Heritage Month.
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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 her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In...
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 we think we know—delving into the infinite possibilities of their relationship and raising questions about the difference...
A loving, rockin’ celebration of the 1960s and the powerful female voices whose music stands the test of time – including Diana Ross, Janis Joplin, Carole King, Aretha Franklin, and Tina Turner! With over two dozen timeless hits, including “It’s My Party,” “Will You Still Love...
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 another in tow. Everything seems to be in order for their wartime performance…that is, until they are somehow assigned to...
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 this June. This hilarious, roller skating, musical adventure rolls along to a fabulous, original hit score...
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. In response to their mothers attempted suicide, a child begins a list of Every Brilliant Thing worth living for. As the child...
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 bouffants! We laugh and learn about their lives and loves while the girls serenade us with classic 50s hits including Lollipop, Dream...
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 make a list of everything thats brilliant about the world. Everything worth living for: 1. Ice cream. 2. Kung Fu movies. 3. Staying up past your...
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, energetic and danceable, it broke every attendance record in our theatres history. One of the big reasons: Jared Freiburg! Jared...
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 the legendary country singer who died tragically at age 30 in a plane crash in 1963, AlwaysPatsy Cline is a true story about Clines...
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 BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself. The consistent...
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 in a string of failures and a shortage of funds. A possible break in his fortunes occurs when he receives a...
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 community of women from many walks of life. Mary Jane is Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Herzogs remarkably powerful and...
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 with good reason: at the heart of its breathtaking poetry and subtle theatrical sophistication is a purity and...
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 and mores, they are all among the upstanding citizens of Tuna, Texas. This long-running Off Broadway hit features two...
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 MERMAID, JR.! Based on the Academy Award winning film and Broadway adaptation, THE LITTLE MERMAID, JR. tells the tale of...
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 and a marriage, all set during a delightful excursion into turn of the 20th Century New York City. HELLO, DOLLY! runs June 7-30...
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 May 3-19, WednesdaysSaturdays at 7 pm and Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm.
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 by a legendary recording session that took place on December 4, 1956, when an extraordinary twist of fate brought Johnny Cash, Jerry...
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 , one of the most universally beloved works of English literature. Marriage is an inevitable fact of life for the five...
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 popular demand for the fifth year in a row, A CHRISTMAS STORY runs Nov. 30-Dec. 23, Wednesdays?Sundays at 7 pm and Saturdays and Sundays at...
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 height of the holiday crush. THE SANTALAND DIARIES runs for four shows only: December 8, 14 and 15 at 9:30 pm and December 9 at...
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 memories, and the ways in which we can never truly escape them. THE GLASS MENAGERIE runs Nov. 2-18...
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 form of a solid white painting) as well as the joys, perils and meaning of friendship. ART runs Sep 28-Oct. 14, Wednesdays?Sundays...
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 pm, Saturday at 2 pm & 7 pm. In Nazi Germany, a group of students secretly try to undermine the tide of hatred by disseminating leaflets...
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 desperate lovers, scheming neighbors and the music of Stephen Sondheim. A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM runs Aug. 10-Sept. 9...
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, Saturday at 2 pm & 7 pm. In a play that recalls George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Nazi regime, BUILDING THE WALL is a...
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 John Buchan and the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name. The play is a fast-paced whodunit that mixes the 1935 Hitchcock...
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 with THE PRODUCERS! The hilarious musical comedy from comic genius Mel Brooks is based upon his 1967 movie and...
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Ragtime Rubicon Theatre Company (10/21-11/08) |
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LAUNCH PAD 2026 Summer Reading Series Ensemble Theatre Company at The New Vic (8/27-8/27) |
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Gutenberg! The Musical! San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre (10/09-11/08) |
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Murder For Two Rubicon Theatre Company (5/12-5/30) |
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SIX (Boleyn Tour) Christopher Cohan Center (5/18-5/19) |
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The Lehman Trilogy Rubicon Theatre Company (3/24-4/11) |
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John & Jen Rubicon Theatre Company (2/10-2/28) |
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Jack Johnson Santa Barbara Bowl (10/03-10/03) |
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A Year With Frog And Toad Clark Center For The Performing Arts (11/19-11/21) |
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The Father: A Tragic Farce The Father: A Tragic Farce (8/28-9/13) |
