Costume customers at Anime Conji
Japanese animation fans gather and play dress-up
Jamie Gardner 6 a.m., June 16
San Diego Theater Scene
THEATER: Current and Upcoming Productions
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California Center for the Arts, Escondido
- 340 N. Escondido Boulevard, Escondido
- Musical Paella
Carlsbad Community Church
- 3175 Harding Street, Carlsbad
- The Torch is Passed
Congregation Adat Yeshurun
- 8625 La Jolla Scenic Drive, La Jolla
- Losing the Nobel Prize
Coronado Playhouse
- 1835 Strand Way, Coronado
- A Man of No Importance (starts July 20, 2018)
- Follies (starts August 31, 2018)
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (starts November 16, 2018)
- Macbeth (starts October 5, 2018)
Courtyard San Diego Downtown
- 530 Broadway, Downtown San Diego
- The Dinner Detective Interactive Murder Mystery Show (through December 22, 2018)
Cygnet Theatre
- 4040 Twiggs Street, Old Town
- Monty Python's Spamalot (starts June 30, 2018)
Diversionary Theatre
- 4545 Park Boulevard, University Heights
- The Loneliest Girl in the World (through July 1, 2018)
Encinitas Library
- 540 Cornish Drive, Encinitas
- From Rags to Riches: A Musical Journey with Jacquelyne Silver
Horton Grand Theatre
- 444 Fourth Avenue, Downtown San Diego
- Bring It On (through June 24, 2018)
La Jolla Playhouse
- 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, UCSD
- Queens (starts July 3, 2018)
- Seize the King (starts August 21, 2018)
- The Squirrels (through July 8, 2018)
La Jolla Riford Library
- 7555 Draper Avenue, La Jolla
- The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin (starts June 19, 2018)
Lamb's Players Theatre
- 1142 Orange Avenue, Coronado
- Once (through July 22, 2018)
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center
- 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla
- Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame (starts October 20, 2018)
- RAW Mystery Flavor
Lyceum Theatre
- 79 Horton Plaza, Downtown San Diego
- Heridas Graves
Malcolm X Library
- 5148 Market Street, Valencia Park
- Juneteenth
Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theatre
- 2130 Pan American Road West, Balboa Park
- Lucy Loop's Journey (starts June 26, 2018)
Mission Hills United Methodist Church
- 4044 Lark Street, Mission Hills
- Bending Broadway
Moonlight Amphitheatre in Brengle Terrace Park
- 1200 Vale Terrace, Vista
- Mamma Mia! (through June 30, 2018)
Moxie Theatre
- 6663 El Cajon Boulevard, Suite N, Rolando
- Romeo, Romeo, and Juliet (starts June 22, 2018)
New Village Arts Theatre
- 2787 B State Street, Carlsbad
- Avenue Q (through July 1, 2018)
- Legally Blonde, The Musical (starts July 28, 2018)
North Coast Repertory Theatre
- 987-D Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (starts July 14, 2018)
- The Father (through June 24, 2018)
Ocean Beach Playhouse
- 4944 Newport Avenue, Ocean Beach
- Hair (through July 1, 2018)
The Old Globe Theatre
- 1363 Old Globe Way, Balboa Park
- A Thousand Splendid Suns (through June 24, 2018)
- Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (starts July 6, 2018)
Old Spaghetti Factory
- 275 Fifth Avenue, Downtown San Diego
- A Dance With Death
Point Loma Playhouse
- 3035 Talbot Street, Point Loma
- Wally's Cafe (starts July 6, 2018)
San Diego Civic Theatre
- 1100 Third Avenue, Downtown San Diego
- On Your Feet (starts July 31, 2018)
- Phantom Of The Opera (starts August 23, 2018)
- The King And I (starts June 26, 2018)
San Diego Performing Arts Center
- 4579 Mission Gorge Place, Grantville
- Profile: A Multimedia Play (starts June 29, 2018)
Schulman Auditorium at Carlsbad City Library
- 1775 Dove Lane, Carlsbad
- Fences
Scripps Ranch Theatre
- 9783 Avenue of Nations, Scripps Ranch
- For Better (through June 24, 2018)
Seaport Village
- 849 W. Harbor Drive, Downtown San Diego
- Who Dunnit? Seaport Village (through December 31, 2018)
Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre
- 1363 Old Globe Way, Balboa Park
- Native Gardens (through June 24, 2018)
Spreckels Theatre
- 121 Broadway, Downtown San Diego
- Tabled Manners (starts June 24, 2018)
Tenth Avenue Arts Center
- 930 Tenth Avenue, East Village
- Arsenic and Old Lace (through July 1, 2018)
Village Presbyterian Church
- 6225 Paseo Delicias, Rancho Santa Fe
- Village Church Summer Theater Camp (starts July 23, 2018)
Welk Resort Theatre
- 8860 Lawrence Welk Drive, Escondido
- Hard Day's Night (starts June 20, 2018)
Theater Reviews
A mind overthrown
You could almost call the play Inside of Our Heads
During its early scenes, a play makes a kind of pact with the audience: “Here is tonight’s theatrical world.” It could be cartoony absurd or Victorian Gingerbread Age ornate. But this is default mode, how ...
The tangled -isms of Native Gardens
Each year sees several plays about two couples who begin amicably and end up as flying body parts
Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall" contains a character who repeats the line “good fences make good neighbors” like it's a kind of mantra. Karen Zacharias’ Native Gardens begs to differ. Most of the 90-minute comedy ...
Cherchez la femme in Afghanistan
Both on stage and in the story, the women are directed
When they first meet, Mariam can’t stand young Laila. With good reason: in her early 30s, Mariam’s the dutiful wife of Rasheed, an abusive control freak. To him, she’s lower than a house cat. Now ...
Controlled chaos
The dashes become madder, the hand-offs quicker, and the stage becomes a whirling kaleidoscope.
Noises from backstage during a performance — i.e. “noises off” — are one of the great bugaboos of live theater. They could be anything: flubbed costume changes, microphone left on, missing prop. They yank us ...
The Wanderers: a play that unfolds like a book
It even has “Chapters.” “Marriage,” “Children,” “Boredom,” “Destruction.”
A divorced friend on a collision course with #2 confessed: “I don’t choose well. Maybe someone should pick ex- #3 for me, like an arranged marriage.” Anna Ziegler’s The Wanderers, in a world premiere at ...
Antireviews
Embarrassed by tragedy
The actors indeed had to soldier on through the titters and giggles of the audience
“The most certain sign of decadence in a nation is the fact that it cannot witness the performance of tragedy but must ever be titillated by comic entertainments.” –St. John G. Ervine, author of John ...
Fight the empathy shortage
A Thousand Splendid Suns and the plight of The Afghan Girl
Afghanistan’s most famous face belongs to a name few have ever heard: Sharbat Gula. Mainly, she’s famous for enduring a very, very difficult life. As a child, she trekked fifty mountainous miles to escape the ...
Bless your little heart
Southern women shine in Steel Magnolias
I went to college in Dallas, which is not really in the South, but is a sort of first cousin. We had our share of Southern Belles on campus, including one of my roommates. One ...
