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IN A CITY ALIVE WITH POSSIBILITY, TWO UNLIKELY DREAMERS DISCOVER THAT MUSIC HAS THE POWER TO CHANGE EVERYTHING
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FeaturedGood Night, Oscar
He was the funniest man in the room. And the most unfiltered. North Coast Repertory Theatre presents the West Coast Premiere of Good Night, Oscar , Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright's compassionate and wickedly funny portrait of Oscar Levant — pianist, actor, composer, and...
FeaturedRipcord
Get ready for a roommate rivalry unlike any other ! Don’t miss the powerhouse cast of , the wickedly funny comedy by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, as they duke it out in a brilliantly bonkers battle of wills. What begins as a simple standoff spirals...
FeaturedThe Cottage
A hilarious web of revelations unravels in this wickedly funny farce where matters of the heart are never simple. Set in the English countryside in 1923, THE COTTAGE is a side-splitting romp where passion collides with propriety and scandal erupts behind closed doors. When...
FeaturedNext to Normal
NEXT TO NORMAL Brings an Electrifying, Intimate Musical Experience to San Diego 3Peace Studios and Point Loma Playhouse present the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical through October 11, 2026, featuring live music and an exceptional ensemble of San Diego artists. SAN DIEGO, CA...
Dear Evan Hansen
Winner of six Tony Awards including Best Musical, Dear Evan Hansen follows high school senior Evan, who becomes entangled in a misunderstanding that spirals into a web of lies. As the story unfolds, Evan must navigate new relationships while facing the weight of his choices...
Oh, Mary!
Oh, Mary! is a dark comedy about a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Unrequited yearning, alcoholism, and suppressed desires abound in this 80-minute one-act play that finally examines the forgotten life and...
King of the Wild Frontier Reading
A special benefit staged reading at North Coast Rep of King of the Wild Frontier , a compelling new one-act, one-person play written by John Romano ("The Lincoln Lawyer") and read by Emmy Award winner Joe Spano, is set against the world of a New Jersey country club in the 1960s...
Al Jardin & The Pet Sounds Band
Beach Boys co-founder Al Jardine keeps the sunshine sound alive with classics like “California Girls” and “Help Me, Rhonda” – plus deep cuts and rich harmonies in a feel-good night of good vibrations.
Staged Reading Festival
During this four-day event, you have the chance to experience brand-new pieces from playwrights around the country! From short plays to longer pieces, there is something for everyone to enjoy at Mosaics Theatricals Staged Reading Festival.
A Black-billed Cuckoo
The elusive black-billed cuckoo is notoriously difficult to find — and it's the bird Ruth has spent years searching for. Over 24 hours in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, a close-knit birding group is thrown into chaos when some members glimpse the rare bird and others don’t. Don’t...
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Spooktacular Tour with Patricia Quinn
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW ORIGINAL CAST SPOOKTACULAR TOUR Join the original 'Magenta' - Patricia Quinn - for a screening of the movie in a new 4k restoration with a live shadow cast and audience participation! The evening includes a hosted screening of the movie in a new 4k...
Bach Collegium San Diego Presents “Salzburg Connections: Mozart & Michael Haydn”
Bach Collegium San Diego (BCSD), one of the country's leading baroque ensembles, opens its 2026–27 season with Salzburg Connections, pairing two towering figures of the Salzburg musical world: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Michael Haydn. Best known for the luminous Laudate...
Begin Again
A world-premiere musical based on the film written and directed by John Carney, with music and lyrics by Pat Monahan and the band Train, and direction by Lorin Latarro. In a city alive with possibility, two unlikely dreamers discover that music has the power to change...
Odds Are
October 2nd - 18th, 2026 The World Premiere Production of an award-winning autobiographical play about love, loss, and luck. Fresh from a celebrated run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Best of Fringe 2025, The Times) and a Grand Prize win at the United Solo Festival, ODDS ARE...
Topdog/Underdog
Topdog/Underdog, directed by Steve H. Broadnax III, examines the complex relationship between two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, as they navigate their struggles for survival through the world of con games. This Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Suzan-Lori Parks captures themes of...
Topdog/Underdog
Written by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks and directed by Steve H. Broadnax III, this modern classic follows brothers Lincoln and Booth as they hustle for survival through the street con game of three-card monte. Their bond is tested by rivalry, resentment, and the...
Exposed (Open Rehearsal)
Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre offers an intimate first look at the creative process behind their developing work Exposed, an evening-length piece exploring vulnerability, vision, and courage. The scenic design creates an ever-changing landscape of pathways, levels, and partitions...
Dead Man's Cell Phone
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café, a stranger at the next table who has had enough, and a dead man with a lot of loose ends. A wildly imaginative comedy by Sarah Ruhl about how we memorialize the dead and how that remembering changes us. It follows the odyssey of...
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS - The Musical
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS - The Musical BOOK BY: Jeffrey Lane MUSIC and LYRICS BY: David Yazbek A Broadway Hit Musical Comedy - Temecula Regional Premiere! Presented by FINE ARTS NETWORK THEATER COMPANY From the same theater company that recently brought Temecula audiences FROZEN...
Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece tells a timeless tale of betrayal, sacrifice, and revenge, featuring beloved arias like La donna è mobile and Caro nome. The production stars Michael Chioldi as Rigoletto, Madison Leonard as Gilda, Jose Simerilla Romero as the Duke of Mantua, and...
Silent Movie Mondays: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
Silent Movie Mondays Season Three continues with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), a spine-tingling silent classic setting the tone for an autumn filled with suspense. Organist David Marsh provides live musical accompaniment for the screening. A post-screening talkback with the...
GRIM
GRIM is an irreverent, hilarious and heartbreaking world-premiere musical that celebrates life...and death. After 300,000 years collecting souls, the Grim Reaper is retiring, and his daughter Diana must pass a simple test to take over, until she unexpectedly falls for dorky...
PoeFest
The master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, and his compatriots are back in a gothic evening of supernatural stories featuring witches, voodoo and one of Poe's most ghastly tales, The Premature Burial. Performances take place throughout the historic Villa Montezuma Museum...
World Renowned Comedy Hypnotist Kevin Stone Performs at The Pechanga Resort Casino Showroom
Kevin Stone Hypnotist October 29–31 Known as the Hollywood Hypnotist, Kevin Stone has spent more than 30 years combining comedy, audience participation, and hypnosis into a one-of-a-kind live show. A world-renowned entertainer and certified hypnotherapist, Kevin has performed in...
& Juliet
CREATED BY THE EMMY®-WINNING WRITER FROM “SCHITT’S CREEK,” this hilarious new musical flips the script on the greatest love story ever told. & Juliet asks: what would happen next if Juliet didn’t end it all over Romeo? Get whisked away on a fabulous journey as she ditches her...
Latest San Diego Reviews
Review: OH, MARY! at San Diego Civic Theatre
Tony Award-winning playwright Cole Escola’s retelling of Mary Todd Lincoln’s life has less in common with a traditional historical account and more with Gwyneth Paltrow’s rendition of the first lady in Fox’s Glee. Certain historical facts remain unavoidable, but everything in between belong…
Review: OH, MARY! at Broadway San Diego
The humor of 'Oh, Mary!' is queer and crass, dark and campy, and somehow manages to be both completely ridiculous and to make you wonder what will happen next.…
Review: OPERA À LA CARTE SAN DIEGO PERFORMS DONIZETTI at The Light Box Theater in Liberty Station
What did our critic think of OPERA À LA CARTE SAN DIEGO PERFORMS DONIZETTI at Liberty Station's Light Box Theater? Opera À la Carte San Diego’s third annual full production was the San Diego premiere of Donizetti’s operatic satire Viva la Mamma! The production was as entertaining and well-s…
Review: GOOD NIGHT, OSCAR at North Coast Repertory Theatre
'Good Night, Oscar' is full of comedy, music, celebrity, addiction, mental illness, ambition, and the uncomfortable bargain between an artist and an audience that wants to consume his genius. This production at North Coast Repertory Theatre handles it all with impressive performances and empathy.…
Review: BEGIN AGAIN at The Old Globe
'Begin Again' at the new musical The Old Globe has plenty of heart, terrific performances, and a theatrical imagination that makes making music feel almost tangible.…
Review: COME FROM AWAY at Moonlight Stage
Come From Away is a show about the ripple effect of kindness. You do not have to save the world to make a difference. Fred Rogers famously told us to “look for the helpers.” Perhaps that is why this particular musical continues to feel so welcome: In a world that can sometimes feel determin…
Review: World Premiere Musical WILD CHILD Debuts at Laguna Playhouse
Featuring book and lyrics by Dan Marshall and music by composer Julianne Wick Davis, WILD CHILD is an ambitious, sincerely earnest, and, at times, cleverly innovative new musical about a group of teenagers who are forced to join an outdoor wilderness therapy program where they must grapple with iden…
Review: DEAR EVAN HANSEN at Cygnet Theatre
Cygnet Theatre’s 'Dear Evan Hansen' cast is terrific; the technical elements are beautifully integrated, and the emotions land exactly where they are meant to. You may or may not have some issues with the story, but Cygnet has made a production that gives audiences plenty to feel and discuss on th…
Review: OUR LADY OF THE SAN DIEGO CONVENTION CENTER Finds Childhood Innocence Amid the Harsh Realities of the Immigration System
Our Lady of the San Diego Convention Center is a story about immigration, about children, about faith, but above all, about San Diego.…
Review: OUR LADY OF THE SAN DIEGO CONVENTION CENTER at TuYo Theatre
Our Lady of the San Diego Convention Center centers these experiences with care and humor, giving audiences a chance to know these migrant girls and what they experienced as children by capturing their fears, friendships, faith, and small moments of joy instead of as statistics or political talking …
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BEGIN AGAIN The Old Globe (9/06-10/11) |
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Good Night, Oscar North Coast Repertory (9/16-10/18) |
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Ripcord The Roustabouts Theatre Co. (10/08-11/01) |
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The Cottage North Coast Repertory (10/28-11/22) |
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Next to Normal 3Peace Studios & Point Loma Playhouse (9/25-10/11) |
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DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS - The Musical Fine Arts Network Theater Company performing at Old Town Temecula Community Theater (10/09-10/25) |
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Falsettos Mosaic Theatricals (4/16-5/02) |
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Mamma Mia! Civic Theatre- San Diego (6/15-6/20) |
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The Outsiders San Diego Civic Theatre (11/03-11/08) |
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Bluey's Big Play Balboa Theatre (11/13-11/15) |
