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San Diego Theater Scene
THEATER: Current and Upcoming Productions
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Beyond Babel Theatre
- 2625 Imperial Avenue , Grant Hill
- Beyond Babel (starts September 23, 2018)
Community Actors Theatre
- 2957 54th Street, Oak Park
- Hamlet (starts August 24, 2018)
Coronado Playhouse
- 1835 Strand Way, Coronado
- A Man of No Importance (through August 26, 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
- Every Brilliant Thing (starts August 25, 2018)
David and Dorothea Garfield Theatre
- 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla
- Disney's Newsies Jr. (starts January 12, 2019)
Finest City Improv
- 4250 Louisiana Street, North Park
- Murder at Cherry Creek Saloon
First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego
- 4190 Front Street, Hillcrest
- Weekend Revue: Broadway’s Biggest Hits
Horton Grand Theatre
- 444 Fourth Avenue, Downtown San Diego
- Hairspray (starts August 26, 2018)
Kit Carson Park
- 3333 Bear Valley Parkway, Escondido
- In the Heights (starts August 17, 2018)
La Jolla Playhouse
- 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, UCSD
- Queens (through July 29, 2018)
- Seize the King (starts August 21, 2018)
Lamb's Players Theatre
- 1142 Orange Avenue, Coronado
- Once (through September 2, 2018)
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center
- 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla
- 1776 Presented by JCompany Youth Theatre (starts May 11, 2019)
- Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame (starts October 20, 2018)
- Madagascar Jr. (starts March 10, 2019)
Lyceum Theatre
- 79 Horton Plaza, Downtown San Diego
- Fun Home (starts September 6, 2018)
Mandell Weiss Forum
- 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, UCSD
- Hundred Days (starts September 22, 2018)
Moonlight Amphitheatre in Brengle Terrace Park
- 1200 Vale Terrace, Vista
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (starts August 15, 2018)
Moxie Theatre
- 6663 El Cajon Boulevard, Suite N, Rolando
- Voyeurs de Venus (starts August 18, 2018)
New Village Arts Theatre
- 2787 B State Street, Carlsbad
- Legally Blonde, The Musical (through September 9, 2018)
North Coast Repertory Theatre
- 987-D Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (through August 19, 2018)
- Blithe Spirit (starts September 8, 2018)
North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe
- 2031 El Cajon Boulevard, North Park
- Ripcord (through August 19, 2018)
Ocean Beach Playhouse
- 4944 Newport Avenue, Ocean Beach
- Peter Pan Rebooted: A Steampunk Rock Musical! (starts August 16, 2018)
The Old Globe Theatre
- 1363 Old Globe Way, Balboa Park
- Barefoot in the Park (through September 16, 2018)
- Much Ado About Nothing (starts August 18, 2018)
- The Heart of Rock & Roll (starts September 14, 2018)
Old Spaghetti Factory
- 275 Fifth Avenue, Downtown San Diego
- A Dance With Death
Old Town State Historic Park
- 4002 Wallace Street, Old Town
- Write Out Loud: TwainFest
Onstage Playhouse
- 291 Third Avenue, Chula Vista
- Xanadu (through August 18, 2018)
Patio Playhouse Theatre
- 116 S. Kalmia Street, None
- The Great American Trailer Park Musical (starts August 24, 2018)
Point Loma Playhouse
- 3035 Talbot Street, Point Loma
- One Slight Hitch (starts September 21, 2018)
San Diego Civic Theatre
- 1100 Third Avenue, Downtown San Diego
- Phantom Of The Opera (starts August 23, 2018)
- The Phantom of the Opera (starts August 23, 2018)
Scripps Ranch Theatre
- 9783 Avenue of Nations, Scripps Ranch
- Communicating Doors (starts September 8, 2018)
Seaport Village
- 849 W. Harbor Drive, Downtown San Diego
- Who Dunnit? Seaport Village (through December 31, 2018)
Theodore and Adele Shank Theatre
- 9500 Gilman Drive, UCSD
- Smokefall (starts August 23, 2018)
Upstart Crow Bookshop and Coffee House
- 835 W. Harbor Drive, Downtown San Diego
- The Tempest: Open Reading
Welk Resort Theatre
- 8860 Lawrence Welk Drive, Escondido
- Forever Plaid (through August 26, 2018)
- Hard Day's Night (through August 29, 2018)
- Mamma Mia! (starts September 7, 2018)
Zoro Garden
- 1649 El Prado, Balboa Park
- Christopher R's Organic Groan
- Otherwise Improvise & The Naked Shakespeare Company (through August 18, 2018)
Theater Reviews
Reigning from below
Instead of a heartfelt hug, Inna fires a hard right cross to Reina’s chin.
Martyna Majok’s ambitious Queens plays like a prospector who has found a giant gold nugget in the wilderness. Problem is: the prospector hasn’t a wagon big enough to carry it out, or an axe to ...
The decision resonates like few in Shakespeare
Caught between avenging “high wrongs” or choosing the “rarer action” of virtue
Prospero has every reason to be furious. When he was Duke of Milan, he was a passive ruler, one who would much rather study “white magic” than enact an edict. Then, twelve years before Shakespeare’s ...
The Squirrels has the makings
But it plays more like notes for a second draft
The ancient philosopher Epicurus said, “Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.” Scurius is the patriarch of the squirrels on his tree. He’s a Gray squirrel and lives square in ...
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 ...
Antireviews
Love can't exist without goofy jokes
Obviously, my child brain didn’t think in terms of production values
Though I’d never attended a live performance of Barefoot in the Park before this week, in a way, Neil Simon’s 1963 comedy provided my first-ever theatrical experience. I viewed it as a small child, sitting ...
Escape from Plato’s cave
Freedom from the constraints of perception is necessary in the pursuit of knowledge and truth
According to Greek mythology, humankind can credit the knowledge and inspiration behind any artful act of creation to the nine muses. These daughters of Zeus represented tragedy, comedy, epic poetry, music, and other media available ...
Something about vulnerability
No second takes, no do-overs.
When I saw A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, I was reminded me how much I prefer anything live to anything recorded. As in, I might really enjoy a live music ...
