San Diego Theatre Newsroom

Diversionary Theatre has announced the return of The Kinsey Sicks Dragapella® Quartet for the San Diego Premiere of Deep Inside Tonight! The Kinsey Sicks.

Time is running out to submit nominations for the 2024 BroadwayWorld San Diego Awards. Don't miss next week's October 31st deadline!

Trinity Theatre Company will continue their Grown Up Stage (GUS) season under the guidance of Artistic Director, Sean Boyd with LIVING AFTER MIDNIGHT, a new play by Sean Pomposello and directed by Tim Baran from November 8-17.

In todays blog, we discuss the importance of the arts in our world today and ways you can advocate for access to the arts to use possibly use the skills you acquire in possible career paths!

The Old Globe has revealed the cast and creative team for its Globe for All production of AS YOU LIKE IT, bringing Shakespeare's classic comedy to diverse communities across San Diego. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.

WICKED, San Diego’s most popular musical, will return to San Diego. This exclusive four-week return engagement at the San Diego Civic Theatre begins Wednesday, February 5, 2025 and plays through Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Cygnet Theatre has announced its lineup of playwrights for the 2024 Bill and Judy Garrett Finish Line Commission. In partnership with the UCSD MFA Playwriting Program, the commission supports Cygnet's commitment to new theatrical works, written by groundbreaking local and nationally recognized playwrights.

 In honor of the late Dea Hurston, New Village Arts (NVA) is proud to announce the selection of Lilea Alvarez, Bryttney-Mischele Salvant, and Miki Vale as the 2024-2025 Dea Hurston Professional Fellows.

La Jolla Playhouse revealed the cast and creative team for YOUR LOCAL THEATER PRESENTS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, BY CHARLES DICKENS, AGAIN, featuring a fresh take on the classic holiday tale. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

What happens when you ask two teachers, a street yogi, and an actress, to create a play teaching about Thanksgiving without offending anyone?  You get a lot of laughs as this overly woke team descends into comedic chaos trying to figure out what to say and who is allowed to say it in “The Thanksgiving Play” by Larissa Fasthorse at New Village Arts now playing through November 3rd.

Tallulah Bankhead once said, “Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn’t boring.” The Roustabouts Theatre Company rose to that challenge with “Looped.” It is a delightfully funny play showcasing her humor and heartbreak, with a lead performance that Bankhead herself would agree is captivating.   “Looped” is playing through October 20th.

There are just two weeks left to submit nominations for the 2024 BroadwayWorld San Diego Awards. The 2024 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024.

From San Diego to New York and Back again, an interview with Mylinda Hull from the Old Globe's “Agatha Christie’s Murder on The Orient Express” runs through October 20th.

Experience the gripping courtroom drama INHERIT THE WIND at North Coast Repertory Theatre on November 18, 2024.

Interview with Erica Marie Weisz about THE THANKSGIVING PLAY, a satirical one-act comedy playing at New Village Arts through November 3rd.

What did our critic think of SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY PERFORM WORKS BY MAHLER AND LARCHER at the Jacobs Music Center? There were only two pieces on the San Diego Symphony’s program for the second weekend of the new season, the first after the renovation of the Jacobs Music Center. But one of them was Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection. At about 90 minutes, it is one of the longest ever written. In an exciting performance such as conductor Rafael Payare led, no one was nodding off, or even tempted to glance at a phone. Though a phone did elude its owner for three muffled rings before the transgressing audience member got it out where it managed one last defiantly louder, but futile ring before stifled.

The Old Globe has revealed the cast and creative team for DR. SEUSS'S HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS!, featuring Andrew Polec as the Grinch. The holiday classic returns to San Diego this season. See the full cast and learn how to purchase tickets.

'Kimberly Akimbo' brings teenage angst, youthful enthusiasm, and a little bit of ice skating and committing a felony to Broadway San Diego at the Civic Theatre through October 13th.

A CELEBRATION OF AMERICAN MUSIC to benefit North Coast Repertory Theatre will occur on December 10, 2024 at 2pm at North Coast Repertory Theatre.

West Coast Premiere of Stranger Sings! – A Thrilling Parody of Stranger Things

The Theatre School @ North Coast Rep will present five eerie and macabre Edgar Allen Poe short stories and poems as, Shuddersome: Tales of Poe for its next student production.

Write Out Loud - an organization founded in 2007 with a commitment to inspire, challenge and entertain by reading literature aloud for a live audience, has announced their upcoming Story Concert, LET FREEDOM RING, on Monday, October 14th at Old Town Theatre - 4040 Twiggs Street, San Diego. 

Interview with Andrew Sellon, who plays Hercule Poirot in 'Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express' playing at the Old Globe through October 20th.

Interview with Miguel Gil on bringing the Broadway blockbuster “Kimberly Akimbo” to Broadway San Diego October 8-13th!

“Primary Trust,” now playing at La Jolla Playhouse, is a lovely and meditative play that offers a portrait of the loneliness of living a life safe within self-drawn limits and how wonderful and sometimes painful it can be to open up your world to new experiences. “Primary Trust plays at La Jolla Playhouse through October 20th.