Theatre

Jane Austen meets Steve Jobs in a poignant pre-tech romance heralding the computer age when SLO Rep presents a staged reading of Ada and the Engine, an Ubu’s Other Shoe…

SLO Rep’s staged reading series, Ubu’s Other Shoe, will mark the end of its 20th season with a celebration in the theatre’s lobby on Friday, May 23 at 6 p.m.…

Is life getting you down? Does keeping up with the news make you want to tear your hair out? Are you feeling lost in day-to-day grunge work that doesn’t seem…

PCPA Foundation President Dene Hurlbert and Past President Dee Ringstead with PCPA Artistic Director Mark Booher and Managing Director Jennifer Shwartz   The PCPA Foundation has presented a $240,000 check…

Photos by B App   A remarkable production of an unconventional play opened onstage (literally) at Cal Poly’s Spanos Theatre on May 8. Passage—written by award-winning playwright Christopher Chen, directed…

Last weekend Santa Maria Civic Theatre brought down the house with its outstanding opening of Rent, the terrific rock musical based on a modern-day version of Puccini’s opera La Bohème that…

The Ensemble Theatre Company's 2025 Young Playwrights Festival presents three “searingly honest and unflinchingly bold new works” at the New Vic in Santa Barbara at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May…

Santa Maria Civic Theatre presents Rent—the groundbreaking musical, rock opera, and pop cultural phenomenon—May 9-25. Based loosely on Puccini's La Boheme, Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize winner follows a year in…

You’ll see more characters die (or at least pretend to, in more ways than one) on the By the Sea Productions stage than you ever have before when you pay…

Photos by Ryan Loyd, RYLO Media Design   Can a television actor become a contemporary John Barrymore? That’s the question Paul Rudnick explores in his 1991 stage comedy I Hate…