SLOIFF World Premiere Doc Features Melodrama Folk
A "hybrid" documentary featuring cast and crew members from a local professional theatre company gets its world premiere at the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival on Monday, April 27…
SLOIFF Review: “The Great American Melodrama & Vaudeville & Documentary”
A Patchwork of Activity Some people like to see how the sausage is made, some not so much. The Great American Melodrama & Vaudeville & Documentary was shot during the…
SLOIFF Review: “That’s So Drag”
We need more safe spaces. For art. For creativity. For self-expression. Spaces that encourage us to take risks, push boundaries, and challenge the norm, because that's how progress happens. Those…
SLO REP’s “Virginia Woolf” Packs a Punch
Photos by Ryan C. Loyd, RyLo Media Design Power—as in, who wields it best?—is primary in the production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? now playing through…
Avast, Ye Theatre-Goers—It’s “The Piratess”
Ben Abbott has done it again. The local playwright has written a funny, fast-moving, crowd-pleasing melodrama that will delight all the lords and ladies, lads and lasses—and pirates (arrgh!)—in the…
Ben Abbott Pens New Play for the Melodrama
"I pitched four or five ideas and we landed on the Pirate show." Central Coast writer Ben Abbott makes it sound so easy to create a new play that will…
“Wife of a Salesman” Hits Hard
Lauren Gunderson's podcast How to Playwright: A Creative Podcast for Theatre Lovers is a must-listen for writers, theatre insiders and anyone else who enjoys the particulars of how a play…
“Urinetown” at Cal Poly Is a Must-See
Photos by B App Exciting. Eclectic. Exuberant. If you've never seen Urinetown the Musical, those three words are probably not the ones you expect to hear about a theatre…
“The Shark Is Broken”—And Worth a Bow
Combine intimate acting, an intriguing set, and a script based on the infamous filming of the real-life very first summer blockbuster, and the play you get is The Shark Is…
First Opera and Comedy, Then “The Last Romance”
By the Sea Productions in Morro Bay opened its 10th season on Valentine's Day eve with a staged reading appropriate both for the date and, apparently, the audience. The Last…