Review: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE BY ROSSINI at San Diego Civic Center Theater
by Ron Bierman - February 20, 2026
Rossini’s Barber of Seville is a top ten opera in performances. Donors love it for its vocal gymnastics, memorable arias and sparkling melodies. Receptive newcomers like it because of its delightful bubbling overture, the familiar Figaro aria that soon follows, and its simple fast-moving sitcom-li...
Review: HEDDA GABLER at The Old Globe
by ErinMarie Reiter - February 13, 2026
“Hedda Gabler” by Henrik Ibsen, now given a taut new version by Erin Cressida Wilson and directed with precision by Barry Edelstein at The Old Globe, stars Katie Holmes in the title role through March 15th....
Review: HOW TO SUCCEED... at San Diego Musical Theatre
by ErinMarie Reiter - February 10, 2026
“How to Succeed…” remains a slick, silly, and sharply performed romp—one that knows exactly what kind of absurd world it’s skewering, and does so with a grin....
Review: San Diego Symphony Performs Mahler's Seventh Symphony at Jacobs Music Center
by Ron Bierman - February 05, 2026
Jaha Ling led the San Diego Symphony’s first performance of Mahler’s seventh symphony in 2014, more than a century after the orchestra was founded. He called it “the most modern of all Mahler symphonies.”
Many critics have made similar judgements, the more conservative among them meant it a...
Review: THE APIARY at New Village Arts
by ErinMarie Reiter - February 02, 2026
I’ve watched (and loved) enough sci-fi movies to know that any animals kept in a lab eventually come for the humans. Monkeys. Sharks. Dinosaurs. So you can’t blame me for being deeply suspicious of the bees in the lab in 'The Apiary” now playing at New Village Arts through February 22, 2026....
Review: AUDITION SIDES at Riot Productions
by ErinMarie Reiter - January 30, 2026
“Audition Sides” At Riot Productions understands a specific kind of theatrical purgatory: the audition room, and then raises the stakes even more in this one act....
Review: SOUNDS AND SWELLS at The Conrad
by Ron Bierman - January 18, 2026
Art of Elan launched the Sounds and Swells series several years ago. Artistic Director Eric Starr describes its unusual programs as “a curated pairing of surfing footage and classical music.” The music and footage vary from one performance to another, but always include one or more California co...
Review: SIX at Broadway San Diego
by ErinMarie Reiter - December 31, 2025
“SIX” feels like a New Year’s resolution set to a killer beat: ditch the old hierarchies, turn up the volume, and let the queens run the show. All hail, indeed....
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. ...
Review: RENT at New Village Arts
by ErinMarie Reiter - December 16, 2025
New Village Arts’ production of 'Rent' understands the heart of the piece, even if some of the sharpest edges are softened....
Past Shows
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...
The KitchenWitches
Jul 7 – Jul 30, 2023
CAST: Christine McCoy, Jo-Darlene Reardon, Walter Ruskin & Jame VossIsobel Lomax and Dolly Biddle are two 'mature' cable-access cooking show hostesses who have hated each...
"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...
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...
THE SCRIPTEASERS 75th ANNIVERSARY SHOWCASE
May 8
The Scripteasers75th Anniversary Showcase Features Short Plays by Award- Winning San Diego writersFounded in 1948, The Scripteasers, a San Diego-based playwrights development group, is the longest continually...
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 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...
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...
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...
The Front Porch an original play
Sep 3 – Sep 26, 2021
During the fall of 1967, Clara, a white widow, stubbornly refuses her daughter's insistence she move from her home due to increasing racial tensions throughout...
God of Carnage
Jan 10 – Feb 9, 2020
Start the new year with a bang and see "God of Carnage" at Lamplighters - a dark comedy of manners, without the manners. Winner of...
God of Carnage
Jan 10 – Feb 9, 2020
God of Carnage relates an evening in the lives of two couples, residents of a tony Brooklyn neighborhood, who meet to discuss a playground incident....
On Golden Pond
Oct 11 – Nov 10, 2019
On Golden Pond. Drama By Ernest Thompson (Presented with permission from Dramatists Play Service.) Director: George Bailey Producer: Nicole Ashley Thomas AD: Elaine Litton...
And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little
Aug 23 – Sep 22, 2019
(Presented with permission by Samuel French, Inc.)Directed by: O. P. Hadlock * Assistant Director: Sandy Hotchkiss Produced by: George BaileyOn-line ticketing: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=100723Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lamplighterslamesa/?ref=page_internal Paul Zindels...
Local Playwrights Sbowcase
Jun 7 – Jun 16, 2019
Local Playwrights' ShowcaseFour Plays by Three PlaywrightsJune 7 to June 16, 2019Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm, Sundays at 2:00 pmProduced by Paul EricsonTICKET PRICES...
Nine - The Musical
Apr 19 – May 19, 2019
The story is based also on Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film 8. It focuses on film director Guido Contini, who is dreading his imminent 40th birthday...
"The Front Porch" - a new play
Jun 1 – Jun 10, 2018
"THE FRONT PORCH" A New Play by George Bailey Director: George Bailey Assistant Director: Joyce DeJesus Drama. June 1 - 10, 2018 Friday and Saturday...
Peter and the Starcatcher
Apr 20 – May 13, 2018
The five-time Tony-winning show that The New York Times called "the most exhilarating storytelling on Broadway in decades," Peter and the Starcatcher is the swashbuckling...
'Night, Mother
Mar 2 – Mar 25, 2018
This multi-award-winning play centers around Jessie, a middle-aged, down-on-her-luck woman who moves back in with her mom. As mother and daughter spend a high-stakes evening...
The Mousetrap
Jan 12 – Feb 4, 2018
A terrible snowstorm traps a group of strangers in a quaint boarding house. To everyone's horror, it soon becomes clear that a murderer is hiding...
The Tin Woman
Oct 13 – Nov 5, 2017
What if we owed our survival to more than just our parents? If our existences cost the lives of others, would we make the most...
Daddy's Dyin' Who's Got The Will?
Aug 27 – Sep 17, 2017
From outrageous Southern playwright/director Del Shores (Southern Baptist Sissies, Sordid Lives) comes the hit dark comedy about a greedy family looking to strike it rich....
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