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San Diego Theater Scene
THEATER: Current and Upcoming Productions
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Adobe Chapel
- 3963 Conde Street, Old Town
- Poe Fest (through October 26, 2019)
Arts District Liberty Station
- 2640 Historic Decatur Road, Liberty Station
- Without Walls (WOW) Festival (starts October 17, 2019)
- Without Walls (WOW) Festival: 21st Century Everyman (starts October 17, 2019)
Balboa Theatre
- 868 Fourth Avenue, Downtown San Diego
- The Aging Magician (starts March 13, 2020)
- The Falling and the Rising (starts May 8, 2020)
Barnes and Noble Bookstore Escondido
- 810 West Valley Parkway, Escondido
- The Merry Wives of Windsor Open Reading
California Center for the Arts, Escondido
- 340 N. Escondido Boulevard, Escondido
- Jacque Nunez: Journeys to the Past (starts January 8, 2020)
- John & Juan: History of the Golden State (starts November 20, 2019)
- Razzle Bam Boom: All That Trash (starts February 11, 2020)
- The Ocean Adventure (starts February 11, 2020)
Casa del Prado Theatre
- 1600 Village Place, Balboa Park
- School of Rock: The Musical (starts October 25, 2019)
City Heights Performance Annex
- 3791 Fairmount Avenue, City Heights
- Things That Go Bump In The Night (starts October 25, 2019)
Coronado Playhouse
- 1835 Strand Way, Coronado
- Mamma Mia! (starts November 8, 2019)
Creative Performing & Media Arts Theater
- 5050 Conrad Avenue, Clairemont
- Schoolhouse Rock Live (starts October 18, 2019)
Cygnet Theatre
- 4040 Twiggs Street, Old Town
- Caregiving: Behind the Curtains of Care
- The Last Five Years (starts October 23, 2019)
Doubletree Club Hotel San Diego
- 1515 Hotel Circle South, Mission Valley
- Dinner Detective Interactive Mystery Show (through November 30, 2019)
Helix High School
- 7323 University Avenue, La Mesa
- The Sound of Music (through October 19, 2019)
Horton Grand Theatre
- 444 Fourth Avenue, Downtown San Diego
- A Christmas Story (starts November 30, 2019)
- Man Of La Mancha (through October 27, 2019)
Julian Town Hall
- 2129 Main Street, Julian
- The Dastardly Deeds of Rodney Murgatroyd (starts October 18, 2019)
La Jolla Community Center
- 6811 La Jolla Boulevard, La Jolla
- The War of the Worlds
La Jolla Playhouse
- 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, UCSD
- Cambodian Rock Band (starts November 17, 2019)
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center
- 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla
- A Way with Words
- Disney's My Son Pinocchio Jr. (starts November 2, 2019)
- Sandglass Theater: High School Workshop
- Sandglass Theater: Babylon
- Sandglass Theater: Don't Rock the Boat
Mission Hills United Church of Christ
- 4070 Jackdaw Street, Mission Hills
- James & the Giant Peach (starts November 8, 2019)
Moonlight Amphitheatre in Brengle Terrace Park
- 1200 Vale Terrace, Vista
- Freaky Friday (through October 19, 2019)
New Village Arts Theatre
- 2787 B State Street, Carlsbad
- Intimate Apparel (through October 20, 2019)
North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe
- 2031 El Cajon Boulevard, North Park
- Awkward But Graceful
Ocean Beach Playhouse
- 4944 Newport Avenue, Ocean Beach
- Heathers: the Musical (starts October 18, 2019)
The Old Globe Theatre
- 1363 Old Globe Way, Balboa Park
- Almost Famous (through October 27, 2019)
- August Wilson’s Jitney (starts January 23, 2020)
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (starts November 8, 2019)
- Little Women (starts March 19, 2020)
- The Gardens of Anuncia (starts May 15, 2020)
- Twelfth Night (starts November 2, 2019)
Onstage Playhouse
- 291 Third Avenue, Chula Vista
- Carrie: The Musical (through November 3, 2019)
Patio Playhouse Theatre
- 116 S. Kalmia Street, Escondido
- Sense & Sensibility (starts October 26, 2019)
Point Loma High School
- 2335 Chatsworth Boulevard, Point Loma
- The Laramie Project (starts December 13, 2019)
Point Loma Playhouse
- 3035 Talbot Street, Point Loma
- The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (starts November 22, 2019)
Red Spade Theater
- 2539 Congress Street suite B, Old Town
- Séance
SDSU's Experimental Theatre
- 5500 Campanile Drive, SDSU
- Lying with Badgers (starts November 1, 2019)
San Diego Civic Theatre
- 1100 Third Avenue, Downtown San Diego
- Aida (starts October 19, 2019)
- The Barber of Seville (starts April 25, 2020)
San Diego Repertory Theatre
- 79 Horton Plaza, Downtown San Diego
- Bad Hombres/Good Wives (through October 27, 2019)
- Hershey Felder: A Paris Love Story (starts May 8, 2020)
- Hold These Truths (starts November 14, 2019)
- House of Joy (starts March 5, 2020)
- The Humans (starts January 9, 2020)
Saville Theatre at San Diego City College
- 14th and C Street, City College
- She Kills Monsters (starts October 25, 2019)
Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre
- 1363 Old Globe Way, Balboa Park
- Ebenezer Scrooge’s San Diego Christmas Show (starts November 27, 2019)
- Faceless (starts April 2, 2020)
- Hurricane Diane (starts February 13, 2020)
- Noura (through October 20, 2019)
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (starts June 4, 2020)
Spreckels Theatre
- 121 Broadway, Downtown San Diego
- Carmina Burana (starts November 1, 2019)
Stagehouse Theatre
- 8800 Grossmont College Drive, El Cajon
- Amazing Adventures of the Marvelous Monkey King (starts October 25, 2019)
- Clybourne Park (starts March 12, 2020)
- Eurydice (through November 14, 2019)
- Golden Boy (starts May 14, 2020)
- Inside the Actor's Process: Love Scenes (starts January 31, 2020)
Star Theatre
- 402 N. Coast Highway, Oceanside
- Star Theatre Coast Kids: Thoroughly Modern Millie (starts November 8, 2019)
Sunshine Brooks Theatre
- 217 N. Coast Highway, Oceanside
- Foxfire (through October 27, 2019)
Sycuan Live & Up Close Theatre
- 5469 Casino Way, El Cajon
- Champions of Magic
Veterans Museum and Memorial Center
- 2115 Park Boulevard, Balboa Park
- All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 (through November 17, 2019)
- The Winter’s Tale (Part One)
- The Winter’s Tale (Part Two)
Welk Resort Theatre
- 8860 Lawrence Welk Drive, Escondido
- The Addams Family (through November 10, 2019)
Theater Reviews
Noura: a non-practicing architect
Religious observance seems empty in the face of American individualism
This is a family drama that takes place in one room over the course of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The family — dad, mom, and 11-year-old son — are Iraqi immigrants living in Queens. ...
Foxfire: Appalachian lore
Not a musical, a play with music
The title, Foxfire, refers to a project started in 1966 by an English teacher in Appalachia who encouraged his students to hone their writing skills by documenting their family histories and Appalachian lore. They christened ...
Romeo and Juliet with an eighties dance party
That’s the issue with this production. The first half doesn’t match the second
This tragedy starts out looking like a big party. Fair enough. Many big parties end in tragedy. It’s a great party until somebody dies. That’s what I guess director Barry Edelstein is going for with ...
Pablo Picasso: the King of Trash
Art, creativity, family, politics, and truth
One of the most charming scenes in this tri-lingual, one-man show comes when Picasso takes the audience on a tour of his cluttered studio, explaining his dumpster-dive art: his late dog crafted out of a ...
The Tale of Despereaux: A romping good tale well-told
“If a story doesn’t connect with a child — well, where’s the fun in that?”
“The world is dark, and light is precious,” writes Kate DiCamillo in her novel The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread. Where are ...
Antireviews
Noura need not be compared to Ibsen’s A Doll’s House
The tale is replete with familial conflict, and the way those conflicts play out
The Old Globe website describes Noura as, “A riveting West Coast premiere loosely inspired by Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.” I agree, it is loosely related to A Doll’s House. Very loosely.So loosely, in fact, that ...
The way Lester Bangs loved it
Bangs, vis a vis Cameron Crowe, claimed that rock would cease to be real when it ceased to be “gloriously and righteously dumb.”
“It’s just a shame you missed out on rock ’n’ roll,” a 1973 Lester Bangs tells an emerging music writer he’s taken under his wing, “It’s over. You got here just in time for the ...
Amadeus: The victor is Mozart’s music
Putting Salieri in charge of the narrative relieves us of any controversy regarding the depiction of Mozart
If a show is only as good as its villain, then Amadeus is a great show. The title might refer to Mozart, but the show opens and closes with Salieri, the villain. The play, by ...
