Even though SLO REP’s stage is dark, we are doing our best to stay connected with our audience, our friends and our family of generous supporters through THE INTERMISSION SHOW! THE INTERMISSION SHOW is presented in an effort to connect with our artists and patrons, and to keep this theatre community as strong as possible during this period of empty space and sheltering at home. In...

The 1846-48 War with Mexico transferred sovereignty of California from Mexico to the US. It was the border, however, and not the people themselves who moved, and the original “Californios,” primarily of Mexican and native ethnicity, found themselves in a new nation and State with entirely different laws. Economic pressures and ethnic tensions disrupted life for the Californios. In 1858, the Committee of Vigilance hanged...