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THEATER: Current and Upcoming Productions
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Balboa Theatre
- 868 Fourth Avenue, Downtown San Diego
- Professor Brian Cox
Carlsbad City Library
- 1775 Dove Lane, Carlsbad
- An Act of God
Central Library
- 330 Park Boulevard, East Village
- The Fire in Me
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
- A Christmas Carol (through December 30, 2018)
- Marie and Rosetta (starts January 19, 2019)
David and Dorothea Garfield Theatre
- 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla
- Disney's Newsies Jr. (starts January 12, 2019)
Fairmont Grand Del Mar
- 5300 Grand Del Mar Court, Carmel Valley
- 10th Annual Nutcracker Holiday Tea (starts December 23, 2018)
Horton Grand Theatre
- 444 Fourth Avenue, Downtown San Diego
- Miracle on 34th Street: A Live Musical Radio Play (through December 23, 2018)
La Jolla Playhouse
- 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, UCSD
- Diana (starts February 24, 2019)
- The Year to Come (through December 30, 2018)
Lamb's Players Theatre
- 1142 Orange Avenue, Coronado
- Lamb's Players Festival of Christmas (through December 30, 2018)
Lamplighters Community Theatre
- 5915 Severin Drive, La Mesa
- Weighing In: A One-Woman Show (through January 13, 2019)
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center
- 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla
- 1776 Presented by JCompany Youth Theatre (starts May 11, 2019)
- Madagascar Jr. (starts March 10, 2019)
Lyceum Theatre
- 79 Horton Plaza, Downtown San Diego
- Aubergine (starts January 24, 2019)
- La Pastorela de la Familia (through December 23, 2018)
Martinis Above Fourth | Table + Stage
- 3940 Fourth Avenue #200, Hillcrest
- Hello, Gorgeous!
New Village Arts Theatre
- 2787 B State Street, Carlsbad
- Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberly (through December 23, 2018)
- New Village Arts: Final Draft New Play Festival (starts January 3, 2019)
North Coast Repertory Theatre
- 987-D Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach
- Always...Patsy Kline (through December 30, 2018)
- Moon Over Buffalo (starts January 12, 2019)
The Old Globe Theatre
- 1363 Old Globe Way, Balboa Park
- 34th Plays by Young Writers Festival (starts January 12, 2019)
- Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas (through December 29, 2018)
Onstage Playhouse
- 291 Third Avenue, Chula Vista
- Bond on Third (starts January 4, 2019)
PowPAC
- 13250 Poway Road, Poway
- Jack v. Beanstalk (starts January 11, 2019)
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
- Familiar (starts January 31, 2019)
Spreckels Theatre
- 121 Broadway, Downtown San Diego
- City Ballet of San Diego: The Nutcracker (through December 23, 2018)
Sunshine Brooks Theatre
- 217 N. Coast Highway, Oceanside
- A Christmas Carol, A Radio Play (through December 23, 2018)
Welk Resort Theatre
- 8860 Lawrence Welk Drive, Escondido
- Mamma Mia! (through February 24, 2019)
Theater Reviews
The cast could do much more
Doug’s ghost practically taunts Mike with forgiveness
Clint Black, country music star, produced his sixth studio album in 1995. Looking for Christmas explores the feelings the holidays generate, from standing “Under the Mistletoe,” to the wise, self-deprecating, “Slow as Christmas”: “Every Christmas ...
Shock space
Nora and Torvald end up on the bare wooden floor.
Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2 begins where Henrik Ibsen’s masterpiece A Doll’s House ends. After 15 years on her own in the world, Nora Helmer returns to the door she slammed on her ...
Pessimistic, paralyzed, and sexy
By comparison, happiness looks like a sweaty pig.
Act one, scene two, of Hamlet begins with jubilation. King Claudius and Queen Gertrude celebrate their marriage. Rhinish wine spills from gleaming goblets. Bright colors swirl around the stage. Over in a corner — usually ...
Dickens for a day
Drood became the first Broadway musical using audience participation for the ending.
Young Charles Dickens worked as a law clerk. He delivered documents and ran errands and was bored beyond tears. He wanted to be a court stenographer – record an entire trial verbatim – but it ...
Not so black-and-white
“Actually is about rape, but also The Title IX system which some accuse of making snap judgements.”
A friend compares history – i.e. what actually happened – to the Big Bang. He’s studied the JFK assassination for decades and says he can put three shooters in position: one in the Book Depository, ...
Antireviews
The inseparability of church and theater
It’s always been a pretty dysfunctional parent-child relationship
I arrived at the theater dressed in my usual inconspicuous black dress pants, simple blouse, and low heels, only to realize immediately that I hadn’t gotten the memo. Among all the red and sparkles, I ...
Christmas remains irony-proof
The onslaught of crassness, exploitation, and greed is relentless.
They can’t completely ruin Christmas — the commercialization, the gaudy lights, the atrocious, omnipresent, fake-happy “holiday” music that is the very antithesis of holy (it’s just “day” music if you think about it). Then the ...
New meaning to “flying reindeer”
Miracle makes a strong case for the importance of the myth of Santa
What interests me most about Miracle on 34th Street is the way it juxtaposes belief in Santa Claus against common sense and practical thinking while expounding upon the Santa Claus archetype. Over the past six ...
