Feature: The 2025 Theatre I Kept Thinking About, Long After the Applause
by ErinMarie Reiter - December 29, 2025
Think of it not as a “Best of” but as a yearbook of some of the San Diego shows that lingered with me long beyond closing in 2025
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Video: Patrick McBride Discusses A CHRISTMAS CAROL At Cygnet Theatre on FOX 5
by A.A. Cristi - December 22, 2025
Patrick McBride discusses portraying Ebenezer Scrooge in Cygnet Theatre’s production of A Christmas Carol in a new video interview with FOX 5 San Diego’s Shally Zomorodi....
Review: A MAGICAL HOLIDAY: CHRISTMAS AT THE JOAN at Cygnet Theatre
by ErinMarie Reiter - December 16, 2025
Cygnet Theatre’s “A Magical Holiday: Christmas at The Joan” is precisely what its title promises: a bright, polished, joy-forward holiday revue that knows its job is to lift spirits, sparkle confidently, and send you back into December humming. ...
Cygnet Theatre Reveals Cast And Creative Team For CYGNET'S A MAGICAL HOLIDAY: CHRISTMAS AT THE JOAN
by A.A. Cristi - November 14, 2025
Cygnet Theatre will present Cygnet’s A Magical Holiday: Christmas at The Joan from December 10–28 in San Diego’s Dottie Studio Theater. Directed by Carlos Mendoza....
Cygnet Theatre Reveals Cast and Creative Team of A CHRISTMAS CAROL at The Joan
by Stephi Wild - October 29, 2025
Cygnet Theatre will celebrate the holiday season with its production of A Christmas Carol, a San Diego favorite for a decade. Learn more about the cast and creative team here!...
Cast and Creatives Set For VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE at Cygnet Theatre
by Stephi Wild - September 19, 2025
Cygnet Theatre will present the offbeat comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang. Directed by Anthony Methvin, performances begin next month....
Review: FOLLIES at Cygnet Theatre
by ErinMarie Reiter - September 16, 2025
“Follies” remains a glittering ghost story about theatre itself, what it means to chase applause, and to live forever in memory. With Cygnet’s production, “The Joan” gets its first haunting, and it’s a glamorous one....
Cygnet Theatre & Arts District Liberty Station Complete Joan And Irwin Jacobs Performing Arts Center
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 05, 2025
Arts District Liberty Station and Cygnet Theatre has unveiled The Joan and Irwin Jacobs Performing Arts Center (The Joan) - a transformative $43.5M project reimagining a historic Navy building into San Diego's newest world-class performance space....
Cygnet Theatre Reveals Cast and Creative Team for Stephen Sondheim's FOLLIES
by A.A. Cristi - July 28, 2025
Cygnet Theatre will open its 2025–26 season with Stephen Sondheim’s Follies, marking the inaugural production at its new permanent home, the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Performing Arts Center—known as The Joan—in San Diego’s Arts District Liberty Station....
World Premiere Of LA LLORONA ON THE BLUE LINE to be Presented at TuYo Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 02, 2025
TuYo Theatre will present the world premiere of La Llorona on the Blue Line, written by Mabelle Reynoso and directed by TuYo Theatre's co-artistic director Dr. Maria Patrice Amon. Learn more!...
Past Shows
Cygnet’s A Magical Holiday: Christmas at The Joan
12/10 - 12/28/2025
Cygnet Theatre presents a holiday celebration with Cygnet’s A Magical Holiday: Christmas at The Joan, directed by Carlos Mendoza. Running from December 10 to 28, ...
The Rocky Horror Show
9/11 - 10/20/2024
Cygnet Theatre presents Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show, a campy cult classic directed by Sean Murray. The musical follows two naïve lovers, Brad and ...
Black Boys Cry
6/1
Coming to the Cygnet Theatre in SAN DIEGO is the touring stage play Black Boys Cry . In this hilarious and compelling story we journey ...
A Christmas Carol
11/27 - 12/29/2019
Cygnets holiday smash hit is back for its sixth season! Bring the family back to enjoy the holiday classic adapted from Charles Dickens timeless tale ...
A Christmas Carol
11/27 - 12/29/2019
Cygnets holiday smash hit is back for its sixth season! Bring the family back to enjoy the holiday classic adapted from Charles Dickens timeless tale ...
The Last Five Years
10/23 - 11/17/2019
Written by Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown (Parade), The Last Five Years is an emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in ...
Angels in America
3/6 - 4/20/2019
ANGELS IN AMERICABy Tony KushnerDirected by Sean MurrayAmerica in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers ...
Marie and Rosetta
1/16 - 2/16/2019
By George Brant Directed by Rob Lutfy Get your front-row seat to music history in the making! Bringing fierce guitar playing and swing to gospel ...
Christmas Carol
11/28 - 12/30/2018
Cygnet’s holiday smash hit is back for its fifth season! Bring the family back to enjoy the holiday classic adapted from Charles Dickens’ timeless tale ...
Every Brilliant Thing
8/22 - 9/16/2018
You’re seven years old. Mom’s in the hospital. Dad says she’s “done something stupid.” She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to ...
Spamalot
6/27 - 8/12/2018
Follow King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table as they embark on their quest for the Holy Grail. Flying cows, killer rabbits, taunting ...
The Wind and The Breeze
5/16 - 6/10/2018
The Wind and the Breeze By Nathan Alan Davis Directed by Rob Lutfy World Premiere Sam, the legendary, undisputed, greatest emcee in Rockford, IL, plans ...
The Last Wife
1/17 - 2/11/2018
The Last Wife By Kate Hennig Directed by Rob Lutfy West Coast Premiere This contemporary re-imagining of the compelling relationship between Henry VIII and his ...
A Christmas Carol
11/29 - 12/24/2017
Based on the story by Charles Dickens Adapted by Sean Murray Music Composed by Billy Thompson Directed by Sean Murray Cygnet Theatre invites you to ...
The Legend of Georgia McBride
10/11 - 11/12/2017
THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE By Matthew Lopez Directed by Sean Murray San Diego Premiere He's young, he's broke, he's just found out his wife ...
Animal Crackers
7/16 - 8/13/2017
Hooray for Captain Spaulding! When a celebrated painting goes missing from Mrs. Rittenhouse's fancy house party in honor of African explorer Captain Spaulding, her guests ...
Shockheaded Peter
5/18 - 6/18/2017
Fall into the world of Victorian steam-punk nightmares as a manic music box spins stories of naughty children and misguided parents. Silly and sinister, Shockheaded ...
Bad Jews
1/12 - 2/12/2017
There's nothing like a death in the family to bring out the worst in people. The night after their grandfather's funeral, three cousins engage in ...
The Motherf**ker with the Hat
5/15 - 6/22/2014
San Diego Premiere. 12 Steps. 2 Hearts. 1 Hat. Set smack in the middle of New York's mean streets, this Broadway hit is exhilarating, hilarious-and ...
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Louisa Gillis
North Coast Repertory Theatre (1/14 - 2/8) | |
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Dead Moose
Sunshine Brooks Theater (1/23 - 2/1) | |
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FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE!
The Merc (7/11 - 6/12) | |
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Comedy Oakland at Quinn's Lighthouse Sat Jan 24 7pm
Quinn's Lighthouse (1/24 - 1/24) | |
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Comedy Oakland at The Lumpia Company Fri Jan 16 7:30pm
The Lumpia Company (1/16 - 1/16) | |
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Seussical
Young Actors' Theatre (2/27 - 3/8) | |
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Comedy Oakland at The Elbo Room Thur Jan 22nd 8pm
Elbo Room Jack London (1/22 - 1/22) | |
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Hadestown (Non-Equity)
McCallum Theatre for the Performing Arts (4/3 - 4/5) | |
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Nutcracker the Mousical
Old Town Temecula Theater (5/8 - 5/10)
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