“Rent” Brings Down the House
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…
Festival Showcases Three Young Playwrights
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…
“Rent” Features Songs That Rock
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…
Enjoy a Devious “Deathtrap” in Morro Bay
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…
You’ll Laugh at “I Hate Hamlet”
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…
SLO Rep Stages “I Hate Hamlet” May 2-18
A fast-paced, laugh-out-loud, ghost-filled comedy is next up on San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre’s main stage May 2-18. I Hate Hamlet by Paul Rudnick brings together Shakespeare, stage fright, sword…
PCPA’s “Waitress” Is a Must-See
Photos by Luis Escobar, Reflections Photography Studio Let’s cut to the chase: Waitress, on stage 'til May 11 at the Marian Theatre in Santa Maria, and scheduled June 19-July…
Opera-Style “Wizard” Promises Magic
Opera San Luis Obispo is set to enchant audiences with a production of The Wizard of Oz May 17 and 18 in Harold Miossi Hall at the Performing Arts Center…
By the Sea Productions Stages “Deathtrap”
Things don’t go according to plan when a successful playwright invites an aspiring writer to his home with ulterior motives. And so the plot thickens, as By the Sea Productions…
The Devil of “Into the Woods” Is in the Details
Photos by Sammy Gore and Quinlin Gallagher When someone says “Let’s put on a play!” it takes more than just a troupe of willing actors to pull together a fully-realized…