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Steven Oberman's CLAIRE VOYANT Runs At The Avo Playhouse 5/7 - 5/17
by BWW News Desk - May 07, 2009
Carlsbad playwright, Steven Oberman, is launching the world premiere of his new comedy, ?Claire Voyant,? in Vista this May. The play is a comic-book spoof about psychic superheroes, and runs May 7 through 17 at the Avo Playhouse, located at 303 Main Street, Vista. Performance times are Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sundays at 2:00pm. Ticket information and sales are available through the VisTix Ticket Office at 760-724-2110 or online at www.vistixonline.com. Ticket prices are $15-$20, with a $12 preview performance on Wednesday, May 6.
Diversionary Closes Its Season With Biting Comedy THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED, Previews Begin 5/7
by BWW News Desk - May 07, 2009
Diversionary Theatre's sixth and final production of the 2008-2009 season is the biting contemporary comedy The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane. Directed by Robert Barry Fleming, this play takes a look at the scandalous world of Hollywood celebrities. Players in this fast-paced and hilarious farce include a spin-doctor agent, a rising movie star, a sexy 'rent-boy' and his na?ve and needy girlfriend. With photographers itching to catch the latest in celebrity gossip, a compromising photo can make or break your career. The Little Dog Laughed asks the question, 'is there an escape from Hollywood's glass closet or is it better to just stay locked in from the inside?'
CLAIRE VOYANT 'Soars' to Avo Playhouse 5/7
by BWW News Desk - May 07, 2009
Carlsbad playwright, Steven Oberman, is launching the world premiere of his new comedy, 'Claire Voyant,' in Vista this May. The play is a comic-book spoof about psychic superheroes, and runs May 7 through 17 at the Avo Playhouse, located at 303 Main Street, Vista. Performance times are Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sundays at 2:00pm.
New Musical TWIST Re-imagines Oliver Twist At Diversionary Theatre 7/9-8/9
by Gabrielle Sierra - May 06, 2009
Diversionary Theatre will produce the new musical Twist as the first show of its 2009-2010 season, running July 9-August 9. Set against the backdrop of Victorian England, Twist re-imagines Oliver Twist as a lonely, attractive young man searching for love, and discovering an outrageous London underworld.
Kelli O' Hara & Paul Szot To Perform During Conrad Preby's Opening Gala 12/7
by Gabrielle Sierra - May 05, 2009
Lou Spisto, Executive Producer of the Tony Award®-winning Old Globe, is pleased to announce the grand opening gala for the new Conrad Prebys Theatre Center on December 7, 2009. The evening will include a special performance by South Pacific stars, Kelli O'Hara and Paulo Szot, with musical direction by Ted Sperling, and will officially open the new Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre.
SAMMY, WHISPER HOUSE Set For Old Globe's 2009-2010 Winter Season
by Gabrielle Sierra - May 05, 2009
Lou Spisto, Executive Producer of the Tony Award®-winning Old Globe, is pleased to announce the Theatre's 2009/2010 Winter Season.
Director & Cast Join Pasadena Playhouse's CROWNS Sale Event & Sneak Peak 5/9
by Gabrielle Sierra - May 05, 2009
Group sales tickets (15 or more) and subscriptions including CROWNS go on sale Saturday, May 9 for the Pasadena Playhouse run of the acclaimed musical. In celebration of the on-sale, Pasadena Playhouse is hosting an afternoon of festivities. Prior to the sneak-peek presentation, there will be FREE live jazz hosted by The Instrumental Women Project, entertainment and food provided by Gelson's Supermarkets in the Courtyard.
Mike McShane Joins The Cast Of YOU, NERO At Berkeley Rep Theatre, Previews 5/15
by Gabrielle Sierra - May 04, 2009
Today Berkeley Repertory Theatre announced an addition to the royally talented cast of You, Nero. Mike McShane - the popular comic who became a regular on Whose Line is it Anyway? - takes the local stage for the first time in more than 20 years to perform in this smart and sassy show.
Gary Graves' MISANTHROPE Comes To The Berkeley City Club 5/22-6/21
by Gabrielle Sierra - May 04, 2009
Central Works presents Misanthrope a revival of the hit comedy based on Moliere's classic play about a man who hates the world, written & directed by Gary Graves plays May 22 - June 21, pay-what-you-can preview May 21.
SPEECH AND DEBATE And THE MARRIAGE BED Among Diversionary Theatre 2009/10 Season
by Reynard Loki - May 01, 2009
Diversionary Theatre's 2009-2010 season of two gender-bending musicals and four provocative plays includes two West Coast Premieres, dynamic local actors and directors, and a reading of a new queer opera. The six-show mainstage season includes: the new musical Twist by Gila Sand and Paul Leschen, based on Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, directed by James Vasquez; Bent, the seminal play by Martin Sherman, in a co-production with ion theatre company; Paul Rudnick's big gay comedy The New Century, directed by Igor Goldin; same-sex marriage gets a comic nod with The Marriage Bed by Nona Shepphard, directed by Rosina Reynolds; laugh out loud with teenage angst in Speech and Debate by Steven Karam, directed by Jason Southerland; and filled with melancholy and lust, the musical play Moscow, by Nick Salamone and Maury R. McIntyre, rounds out the season.
CYMBELINE Kicks Off Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum's '09 Summer Season 5/31
by Gabrielle Sierra - May 01, 2009
Fidelity and loyalty triumph over treachery to assure that love will prevail in one of Shakespeare's most complex plays. The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum's 2009 Summer Season opens with the romantic Cymbeline, directed by Theatricum artistic director Ellen Geer. Performances take place every Sunday afternoon at 3:30 pm, May 31 through September 27, in the Theatricum's 299-seat outdoor amphitheater carved into the Topanga Canyon hillside.
Greenberg, Gunderson & Cho Among Lineup for 12th Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival
by BWW News Desk - May 01, 2009
South Coast Repertory's 12th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival (PPF) will shine the spotlight on seven new plays written by America's finest writers. Since its creation in 1998, PPF has grown into one of the most important festivals of new scripts in the United States. This year's Festival will take place during the May 1 through May 3 weekend and will feature five staged readings and two fully-produced World Premieres on South Coast Repertory's Segerstrom and Julianne Argryos Stages. Tickets to PPF may be purchased online at www.scr.org, by phone at (714) 708-5555 or in person at the SCR box office.
Tickets For Disney's Award-Winning THE LION KING Go On Sale 5/14 For October Engagement At The SD Civic Theatre
by Reynard Loki - April 30, 2009
Disney Theatrical Productions and Broadway/San Diego ~ A Nederlander Presentation announced today that tickets for the long-awaited return engagement of Disney?s The Lion King will go on sale to the public on Thursday, May 14 at 10AM. San Diego?s most eagerly awaited return will once again leap onto the Civic Theatre stage on Tuesday, October 13 for a limited engagement of four weeks through Sunday, November 8. The opening night is Thursday, October 15 at 7:30PM. This North American National Tour is currently one of seven productions running worldwide along with New York, London, Hamburg, Tokyo, Paris, and Fukuoka. A new sit-down production will begin in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Theatre on May 5.
THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE Extends At Berkeley Rep Through 5/24
by Gabrielle Sierra - April 30, 2009
At Berkeley Repertory Theatre, audiences are screaming with laughter, critics are gushing with praise, and cats are screeching in horror? It?s unanimous: The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a hit.
Aurora Theatre Company's AWAKE AND SING! Opens Its 18th Season On 8/27
by Gabrielle Sierra - April 30, 2009
Aurora Theatre Company sets the tone for its 18th season, a season focusing on "family and fortune," opening with Clifford Odets' classic Depression-era drama AWAKE AND SING! First produced in 1935 by the Group Theatre, AWAKE AND SING! covers a year in the life of an extended Jewish family that does whatever it takes to survive life in the Bronx.
NVA Takes A Bite Out Of Hollywood In FOUR DOGS AND A BONE, Opens 6/4
by Reynard Loki - April 29, 2009
New Village Arts (NVA) concludes its 2008-2009 season with Four Dogs and a Bone by award-winning playwright and recent Oscar-nominee John Patrick Shanley. NVA Associate Artistic Director Joshua Everett Johnson directs this brutally hysterical satire of Hollywood. Four Dogs and a Bone runs June 4 through 28 at the New Village Arts Theatre, located at 2787 State Street in Carlsbad Village. Tickets range from $25 - $30 and are available by calling the box office at 760-433-3245 or by visiting www.NewVillageArts.org.
Photo Flash: James Sutorius Joins The Cast Of THE PRICE
by Reynard Loki - April 29, 2009
The Old Globe is pleased to announce the addition of James Sutorius (Who?s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Lincolnesque) to cast of The Price by Arthur Miller, directed by Richard Seer (All My Sons), to run in the Globe?s Arena Stage at the San Diego Museum of Art?s James S. Copley Auditorium. May 9 ? June 14. James will be replacing John Prosky in the role of ?Walter Franz.? Mr. Prosky will be leaving the cast due to personal reasons.
Musical Adaptation Of SINGING JAILBIRDS Comes To Warner Grand Theatre 5/22
by Gabrielle Sierra - April 29, 2009
The Relevant Stage Theatre Company (TRS) will present a visionary musical adaptation of Upton Sinclair's 1924 play, 'Singing Jailbirds'. The new production titled, UPTON SINCLAIR'S SINGING JAILBIRDS: THE MUSICAL will feature a large cast of performers. The story is set in 1920's San Pedro, the Port Town of Los Angeles amid the demonstrations of union activists during the worker's movement.
2 PIANOS 4 HANDS, VISITING MR. GREEN Set For The Colony Theatre Co 35th Season
by Gabrielle Sierra - April 28, 2009
The Colony Theatre Company is thrilled to announce its 35th Anniversary Season of shows! In this, its ninth year in its beautiful home in Burbank, the multi-Ovation Award-winning theatre company will be taking its subscribers and audiences on five extraordinary journeys beginning with two boys who dream of becoming classical pianists to two men -- one twenty, one eighty -- forced together against their will; from a new play exploring President Abraham Lincoln's humanity to a musical revue that explores Jacques Brel's musical genius and then there's also a cross-dressing sexy romp thrown in for good measure!
Comedy/Gothic Horror FAUST PART 1 Previews 5/20 At The Ashby Stage
by Gabrielle Sierra - April 28, 2009
Reeling between stylish comedy and gothic horror, Faust, Part 1 tells the story of a famous but unfulfilled scientist who makes a deal with the devil to find passion with a beautiful young commoner.
9 PARTS OF DESIRE Set As Mo'olelo PAC's Fall 2009 Performance, Runs 10/7-11/1
by Gabrielle Sierra - April 27, 2009
Critically-acclaimed Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company announces its fall 2009 production will be Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire, running from October 7 to November 1, 2009, at the 10th Avenue Theatre in Downtown San Diego. Press opening will take place on Saturday, October 10, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
Fugard's COMING HOME Announced For Berkeley Rep Upcoming Season, Previews 1/15
by Gabrielle Sierra - April 27, 2009
Today, the Tony Award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre announced the seventh play selected for its upcoming season: the West Coast premiere of Coming Home by Athol Fugard completes a bold slate that already features four world premieres, a West Coast premiere from Tony Kushner, and a holiday show starring the grandchild of Charlie Chaplin.
Last Cabaret Sunday Moves To Lamb's Players Theater In Coronado 4/26
by BWW News Desk - April 26, 2009
Lamb's Players Theatre's popular Last Sunday Cabaret has outgrown The Palace Bar in the Horton Grand Hotel in downtown San Diego. Held the last Sunday of each month, this event will now take place at Lamb's Players Theatre in Coronado. The next performance will be held on April 26 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm.
NVA Set To Unveil Their 9th Season Of Theatre 5/9
by Reynard Loki - April 24, 2009
New Village Arts, Carlsbad?s award-winning, professional theatre will be unveiling their ninth season of theatre on Saturday, May 9th from 5-10 PM at the unforgettable home of Julie & Peder Norby on the Agua Hedionda Lagoon in Carlsbad. The Norby?s home, named ?Herons? House? is a zero energy home made with about 98% recycled material and surrounded by native low water plants and a fully operational vineyard. It has been honored with the 2008 Sandee Award as well as the 2008 S.D. County 3rd District Supervisor Pam Slater-Price Sustainability Award. As a special incentive, guests will be invited to taste the first wine ever grown from seed and bottled in the City of Carlsbad.
FORBIDDEN BROADWAY GREATEST HITS VOL I Previews 5/1 At Carpenter PAC
by Gabrielle Sierra - April 24, 2009
Musical Theatre West is thrilled to present Forbidden Broadway Greatest Hits Volume I, Previews May 1st, opens May 2nd and runs through May 17th, 2009 at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach.

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