The deadline to purchase subscriptions for the 2023-24 Cal Poly Arts season of shows is July 30. You can secure the best seats and save up to 10 percent when you buy a “choose-your-own” subscription package that includes just four or more shows.

And for the first time, you can skip the line at the box office and order tickets at your own convenience by subscribing online using your computer or smartphone.

If you haven’t thought of purchasing season tickets to Cal Poly Arts, or to your favorite local theatrical or musical groups, please consider it now.”

The upcoming season includes performances by 10-time Grammy Award-winner Bobby McFarrin, Mexican-American singer-songwriter Lupita Infante, satirist David Sedaris, the legendary Taj Mahal Quartet, and the African vocal ensemble Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

If Broadway is your thing, capture tickets for the critically-acclaimed show Mean Girls, the hit-musical-based-on-a-true-story Come From Away, the Tony-, Olivier- and Grammy-award winning musical Chicago, and the explosive, inventive and utterly unique percussion sensation Stomp.

Cal Poly Arts is presenting 30 events in all during the coming season, beginning with Hawaiian sensation Taimane on September 22 and ending with Alcee Chriss on the Forbes pipe organ on May 31, 2024. Cal Poly Arts Director Molly Clark introduced the season by saying “We are thrilled to bring prominent artistic voices that have made their mark across generations, as well as introduce innovative artists in their SLO debuts.”

Single tickets for the public go on sale August 7.

But here’s an idea: why wait? Finding at least four dates on this incredible schedule of events brought to San Luis Obispo County by Cal Poly Arts can’t be difficult. These are artists, concerts, and performances that you and your friends and family are likely to remember for years to come.

Do yourself, and our performing arts community, a good deed: purchase a season subscription to Cal Poly Arts today so Clark and her staff can continue to find and bring such wonderfully talented performers to your doorstep.

Season subscriptions are the lifeblood of performing arts organizations. If you haven’t thought of purchasing season tickets to Cal Poly Arts, or to your favorite local theatrical or musical groups, please consider it now.

A vibrant local arts community depends on you.

:: Charlotte Alexander

By Charlotte Alexander

Charlotte Alexander is an award-winning author, editor, and publisher, with experience in media, higher education, and nonprofit settings. She has been writing reviews of local theatre productions since 2010, and her work has appeared in SLO Life Magazine, SLO Journal Plus, SLO City News, Two for the Show {Central Coast}, and most recently on her website WiseToTheWords.com. She is the co-author of "When Your Pet Outlives You: Protecting Animal Companions After You Die" (New Sage Press 2002; reprinted 2004), which won a Muse Medallion Book Award from the Cat Writers’ Association. She owns and operates C|C Imprint.