Theatre

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…

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…

By the Sea Productions' next offering is a unique four-shows-in-one directors workshop production of Neil Simon's California Suite. The classic comedy/drama is set in one room of a California hotel.…

San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre will raise the curtain on its 80th season this July. Season tickets go on sale June 3 for its five Mainstage shows: The Father: A…

In the wake of tragedy, kindness took flight. An average day in the isolated community of Gander, Newfoundland, becomes a defining moment when 38 planes are suddenly grounded in the…

Mitch Albom's witty comedy And the Winner Is is next up on Wine Country Theatre's schedule, debuting April 10 at the Encore Center in Paso Robles. And the Winner Is…

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…

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…

"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…

Update April 2, 2026: The City of San Luis Obispo has reopened Monterey Street in front of the historic Fremont Theater after determining it is safe to restore vehicle traffic…