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Lamplighters Community Theatre

5915 Severin Dr., La Mesa, CA
La Mesa, CA

Upcoming Shows

Love, Loss & What I Wore

Sep 12 – Sep 19, 2026

An intimate collection of stories based on the best-selling book by Ilene Beckerman, as well as on the recollections of the Ephrons' friends, written by Nora and Delia Ephron. The play is in Readers Theatre format about women, clothes and memory, covering subjects like mothers...

Calendar Girls

Aug 28 – Sep 20, 2026

A Yorkshire women's club decides to take an unconventional route with their coming year's fundraising calendar, posing for photos wearing next to nothing rather than the typical scenic shots. Their reasoning is honorable, but it takes much convincing and plenty of liquid courage...

Review: OUR LADY OF THE SAN DIEGO CONVENTION CENTER at TuYo Theatre

Review: OUR LADY OF THE SAN DIEGO CONVENTION CENTER at TuYo Theatre

by ErinMarie Reiter · September 12, 2026

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 …

Review: MENSA at OnStage Playhouse

Review: MENSA at OnStage Playhouse

by ErinMarie Reiter · September 10, 2026

There is no magic equation for solving political division, or for fixing a culture that increasingly seems to prefer arguing at one another rather than actually talking. Mensa doesn’t pretend to have that answer, but it does offer a nice opening to start the conversation.…

Review: NI MI MADRE Unpacks Motherhood with Humor and Grace at Diversionary Theatre

Review: NI MI MADRE Unpacks Motherhood with Humor and Grace at Diversionary Theatre

by Lucía Serrano · August 25, 2026

Mothers: the never-ending source of trauma, character development, personality... and love. Or, at least, the version they say they give and the other version of what you actually felt as their kid. These themes, and more, are explored in Ni Mi Madre, the Obie Award-winning one-man show written and…

Review: ROCK OF AGES at San Diego Musical Theatre

Review: ROCK OF AGES at San Diego Musical Theatre

by ErinMarie Reiter · August 23, 2026

San Diego Musical Theatre’s 'Rock of Ages' is a delightfully ridiculous blast of ’80s hair-band camp filled with talented performers, big vocals, energetic choreography, a live band, and enough rock ’n’ roll to make the audience feel like they have accidentally wandered onto the Sunset Strip…

Review: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS at Broadway San Diego

Review: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS at Broadway San Diego

by ErinMarie Reiter · August 21, 2026

When 'Water for Elephants' embraces the magic of the circus—the impossible made possible through acrobatics, illusion, movement, and extraordinary puppetry—it is absolutely captivating.…

Review: WE WILL ROCK YOU at New Village Arts

Review: WE WILL ROCK YOU at New Village Arts

by ErinMarie Reiter · August 18, 2026

In many ways, I am the target audience for We Will Rock You. I love Queen, I love theatre, and I love me some questionably bad sci-fi plotting. And yet, even I found myself wondering how much I was willing to overlook for the sake of the music.…

Past Shows

22 total · showing 1–10

Bright Star. a musical by Steve Martin & Edie Brickell

Bright Star. a musical by Steve Martin & Edie Brickell

Apr 18 – May 18, 2025

Inspired by a real event and featuring the Tony and Grammy-nominated score by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Bright Star is a sweeping tale of love and redemptions set against the rich backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the 1920’s and ‘40’s. When literary editor Alice...

The KitchenWitches

The KitchenWitches

Jul 7 – Jul 30, 2023

CAST: Christine McCoy, Jo-Darlene Reardon, Walter Ruskin & Jame Voss Isobel Lomax and Dolly Biddle are two 'mature' cable-access cooking show hostesses who have hated each other for 30 years, ever since Larry Biddle dated one and then married the other. Now when circumstances...

Silkworms, a world premiere by local playwright Connie Terwilliger

"Silkworms", a world premiere by local playwright Connie Terwilliger

Jun 2 – Jun 18, 2023

Silkworms is the story of 3 generations of strong women whose struggles for love and the beauty of life play out in different ways. Some due to changing times. Some due to changing locations. Some due to changing perspective. The grandmother, an immigrant with the wisdom of age...

Silkworms

Silkworms

Jun 2 – Jun 18, 2023

Silkworms is the story of 3 generations of strong women whose struggles for love and the beauty of life play out in different ways. Some due to changing times. Some due to changing locations. Some due to changing perspective. The grandmother, an immigrant with the wisdom of age...

THE SCRIPTEASERS 75th ANNIVERSARY SHOWCASE

THE SCRIPTEASERS 75th ANNIVERSARY SHOWCASE

May 8

The Scripteasers 75th Anniversary Showcase Features Short Plays by Award- Winning San Diego writers Founded in 1948, The Scripteasers, a San Diego-based playwrights development group, is the longest continually operating organization in the nation dedicated to helping writers...

The Revlon Girl

The Revlon Girl

Jan 13 – Feb 5, 2023

Lamplighters Community Theatre will present the West Coast premiere of "The Revlon Girl," Neil Anthony Docking's story that follows the 1966 Aberfan Disaster. Fans of 'The Crown' may recall the tale of Aberfan, Wales, and the sadness that befell the town on October 2, 1966. Due...

The Gifts of the Magi

The Gifts of the Magi

Dec 2 – Dec 18, 2022

It is Christmas time in the early 1900's in New York City. You are treated to a live musical, accompanied by live music. Willy, the newspaper boy will give you a guided tour of how the city works and grinds and takes, even during Christmas. You will meet a colorful "man of the...

Brighton Beach Memoirs

Brighton Beach Memoirs

Jul 8 – Jul 31, 2022

In 1937 Brooklyn, "almost 15-year-old" Eugene Jerome and his quirky Polish-American family struggle to stay afloat during the Depression ad the growing threat of war in Europe. This coming-of-age semi-autobiographical comedy captures Eugene's search for identity while dealing...

The 1940's Radio Hour

The 1940's Radio Hour

Nov 26 – Dec 19, 2021

A look into yesteryear with this nostalgic view of a live radio broadcast of the The Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade, from the Hotel Astors Algonquin Room on December 21, 1942. Experience the spirit of that bygone era when the world was at war and pop music meant Strike Up...

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