Theatre

Jeffrey Laughrun, Joe Ogren, Katelyn Shreiner & Morgan Tapp   SLO REP is opening its 79th season with a bang—an auspicious beginning to an ambitious lineup of shows for 2025-26,…

Some people don’t slide their way to the bottom, sometimes the bottom reaches up and knocks them out. Jill Turnbow brings her storytelling skills to her one-woman show 17 Raccoons…

Photos by Luis Escobar   It’s 1595 and Shakespeare’s Richard II is about to open in London. That’s bad news for the steadfast Bottom brothers, Nick and Nigel, whose troupe…

An emotional drama exploring the fine line between genius and instability is playing through August 24 at By the Sea Productions in Morro Bay. David Auburn’s play Proof, directed by…

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…

“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…

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…

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…

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…

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…