by Ron Bierman - April 03, 2026
Carmen is the world’s third most performed opera. Its tale of the doomed love affair between an innocent young soldier and a beguiling young woman unconstrained by conventional beliefs was seen in more than 6,000 productions on five continents last year. This performance was in the opera’s origi...
by ErinMarie Reiter - March 30, 2026
“The Lehman Trilogy, now playing at Cygnet Theatre through April 26, is an epic in every sense: sweeping, ambitious, unexpectedly funny, and, even at a three-hour runtime, utterly engrossing....
by ErinMarie Reiter - March 21, 2026
Running through March 22 in the Diversionary Black Box as a guest production, “First Day in December” is not just a look back; it’s a conversation with right now. ...
by ErinMarie Reiter - March 16, 2026
Now playing at Oceanside Theatre Company through March 29, “The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity' is charismatic, fast-moving, and packed with both theatrical flair and genuine heart....
by ErinMarie Reiter - March 14, 2026
Turns out the Almighty has a few notes for humanity, and apparently, “An Act of God”, now playing courtesy of Roustabouts Theatre Co at the Scripps Ranch Theatre through March 29th is the best place to deliver them....
by ErinMarie Reiter - March 13, 2026
Rainy streets, shady characters, and a mysterious black bird that everyone seems willing to lie, cheat, or worse to possess, ”The Maltese Falcon” has all the ingredients of classic detective fiction but with a fun new twist in this world-premiere adaptation at North Coast Repertory Theatre....
by ErinMarie Reiter - March 09, 2026
'Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” is undeniably a marathon, but in the hands of Backyard Renaissance, the journey rarely loses its grip....
by ErinMarie Reiter - February 27, 2026
There are few phrases in literature more quietly unhinged than “I would prefer not to.” And in Fiasco Theatre’s ' Bartleby, now playing at The Old Globe through March 22, that polite little sentence lands like a stick of dynamite in an otherwise well-oiled office machine....
by Lucía Serrano - February 26, 2026
The Broadway National Tour of Beetlejuice has landed in San Diego through March 1. The “ghost with the most” is back for a limited run, promising laughs, cringe-worthy humor, and dazzling set and projection design that fully delivers on the spectacle of a Broadway tour....
by ErinMarie Reiter - February 24, 2026
“Somewhere Over the Border,” now playing at Cygnet Theatre through March 15, wraps that hope in music, metaphor, and a road-trip structure in a production that is charming and colorful on its surface, but anchored by performances strong enough to carry its deeper weight....
Past Shows
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...
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 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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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. Drama By Ernest Thompson (Presented with permission from Dramatists Play Service.) Director: George Bailey Producer: Nicole Ashley Thomas AD: Elaine Litton...
(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' 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...
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 by George Bailey Director: George Bailey Assistant Director: Joyce DeJesus Drama. June 1 - 10, 2018 Friday and Saturday...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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