“Music Man” Delights at the Clark Center
The energy in the audience matched the energy on stage Thursday night as Players West opened its one-weekend-only production of The Music Man at the Clark Center for the Performing…
“Little Shop” Lets the Dark Shine Through
“This show is fun. It’s over-the-top. It’s absurd.” Jacob Shearer, who directs Little Shop of Horrors now playing at the Templeton Performing Arts Center, couldn’t have used truer words to…
“Songs for Nobodies” Is for Everyone
Photos courtesy Michael Brosilow and Northlight Theatre Productions Everyone—no matter how ordinary—has a story and a song worth hearing. That’s the premise of the one-woman show Songs for Nobodies…
“Drowsy Chaperone” Is a Rousing Romp
For a musical whose leading character begins the show with the words “I hate theatre,” Cambria Center for the Arts’ production of The Drowsy Chaperone gives us a whole lot…
“Merry Wives” Makes for a Merry Time
Watching a Shakespeare play in the woods is a life experience everyone should have, and the opportunity is upon us once again as the Central Coast Shakespeare Festival returns to…
“I Love You . . .” Opens SLO REP Season
SLO REP launches its 2025-2026 season with the hilarious and heartfelt musical revue I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, opening August 22 and running through September 21. Directed and…
“Music Man” Comes to the Clark Center
The heartwarming, humorous, and venerable musical about traveling con man Harold Hill is next up on the playbill for Coastal Performing Arts Foundation's Players West, opening August 7 at the…
Single Tickets on Sale Now for Cal Poly Arts
Single tickets for Cal Poly Arts 2025-26 are now available for purchase. More than three dozen productions from around the world come to San Luis Obispo as part of the…
It Took Two To Write This Musical
Mark Pietri and Michael Kaplan (photos courtesy Michael Kaplan). “No sets, no costumes, just four stools.” Central Coast resident Michael Kaplan is describing his most recent work for the…
PCPA’s “Something Rotten!” This Way Comes
Photo by Luis Escobar Nick and Nigel Bottom aim to pen the world's first musical and just maybe outshine the Renaissance rockstar known as the Bard. But along the…