Announced today is the complete cast and creative team for the world premiere of Here There Be Dragons – A New Musical Quest, inspired by the classic tabletop fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.
San Diego Opera has announced that Matthew E. Graber has been appointed to the position of Chief Marketing Officer after a national search, replacing the previous CMO who retired in 2021.
Victory Gardens Theater continues its 2021/22 Mainstage Season with the world premiere of In Every Generation, written by Ali Viterbi and directed by Devon de Mayo. This is a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere by Victory Gardens, the Olney Theatre Center (MD), and San Diego Repertory Theatre (CA).
San Diego Repertory Theatre (San Diego REP), San Diego Urban Warriors Inc. and the African American Advisory Council of San Diego REP announced today the schedule for the 30th Annual San Diego Kuumba Fest. Curated by festival Artistic Director Dajahn Blevins, the 2022 Kuumba Fest will take place both in person (and virtually) at the San Diego Repertory Theatre February 24 – 27, 2022.
Congratulations to Gulfshore Playhouse on becoming the 77th member of the League of Resident Theatre’s - a story we have under the regional section of this week’s newsletter. We also have the story of Hollywood retaining their return to work protocols to keep their sets as safe as possible, even as several states and municipalities roll back their own mandates.
San Diego Repertory Theatre (San Diego REP) announced that Sam Woodhouse will step down as Artistic Director in September 2022 after leading the company for 46 years. At the end of this season, San Diego REP will have produced 333 productions under Woodhouse’s leadership - more than 50 of them were world premieres.
San Diego Repertory Theatre (San Diego REP) announced cast and creative for their upcoming production The Great Khan. This National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere was featured in San Diego REP's 2021 Black Voices Reading Series and was swiftly selected for development and inclusion as a mainstage production in the REP's 46th season.
New Village Arts (NVA), North County's cultural hub, is presenting the world premiere of DESERT ROCK GARDEN February 11 to March 13, 2022. The production is a fictionalized historical story about a young orphan and a Japanese immigrant who forge a friendship in the Topaz War Relocation Center in 1943, revealing the inherent human ability to transform nothing — loneliness and barren desert — into something long-lasting and precious.
Following a postponement of their scheduled January opening due to water damage at the theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre (San Diego REP) announced new dates for their production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
The Desert Rose musical is a story about the triumph of pure love over evil in a setting that shows some of the most disinherited yet essential workers in our society, migrant farmworkers, and Mexican immigrants. Life presents forces to contend with and choices that have deep consequences.
The Second City’s SHE THE PEOPLE has brought a cadre of comedic women to the San Diego Repertory Theatre who will make you laugh and then want to go out and try to change the world. Entirely created, designed, and performed by the women of this world-famous comedy institution it proves that the future is female and very funny. SHE THE PEOPLE is playing through December 5th.
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts announces seven world premiere live streamed musical films produced by HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS – LIVE FROM FLORENCE, including Dante & Beatrice in Florence, Mozart and Figaro in Vienna, The Verdi Fiasco, The Assembly, Chopin in Paris, The Crazy Widow of Moses de Leon, and a musical surprise for holiday time.
San Diego Repertory Theatre (San Diego REP) announced Abigail Buell as the newly appointed Managing Director of San Diego's downtown resident professional theatre, now in its 46th Season.
MOTHER ROAD proves that there is nothing that makes a family fight or bond, more than a road trip. Now playing at San Diego Repertory Theatre through October 31st, MOTHER ROAD offers a diverse and modern perspective to family, legacy, and what it means to be able to come back home.
The new festival will showcase brand new plays from four playwrights: Boni B. Alvarez, Jason Grasl, Nambi E. Kelley, and Giovanni Ortega. Top directors from around the nation will also join these writers.
As part of their free virtual salon series, Wingspace Theatrical Design will present a conversation with four of the creators of Monuments of the Future: Anya Klepikov, Elisa Gonzales, Rudy Ramirez, and Calypso Michelet, moderated by E.L. Hohn.
San Diego Repertory Theatre (San Diego REP) announced the impending arrival of THE SECOND CITY: SHE THE PEOPLE. This production was created by The Second City, and originally directed by Carly Heffernan with Associate Direction /Choreography by Carisa Barreca.
Aurora Theatre Company continues its 30th season with the World Premiere of Kait Kerrigan's FATHER/DAUGHTER, a recipient of the 2021 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. Bay Area theatre artist M. Graham Smith directs William Thomas Hodgson and Sam Jackson (The Bluest Eye, Exit Strategy, Splendour) in this beautifully innovative play about love, family, and relationships.
Hershey Felder Presents – Live From Florence is pleased to announce a 2021-2022 season of new musical and dramatic films, to be produced in Europe and broadcast for American audiences.
San Diego Repertory Theatre (San Diego REP) announced today the cast and creative team for MOTHER ROAD. This play is written by Octavio Solis, and directed by San Diego REP Artistic Director, Sam Woodhouse.
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