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Amplified Aleworks
- 1429 Island Avenue, East Village
- Boozin' With The Bard (starts March 6, 2020)
- Boozin' With the Bard: Romeo and Juliet (starts February 7, 2020)
- Scream Queens: Punk, Horror, Drag, Goth (starts January 30, 2020)
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
- Twelfth Night Open Reading
California Center for the Arts, Escondido
- 340 N. Escondido Boulevard, Escondido
- Razzle Bam Boom: All That Trash (starts February 11, 2020)
- Shen Yun 2020 (through January 21, 2020)
- The Ocean Adventure (starts February 11, 2020)
Casa del Prado Theatre
- 1600 Village Place, Balboa Park
- Twelfth Night (through January 19, 2020)
Central Library
- 330 Park Boulevard, East Village
- Hand Under Hand (starts January 30, 2020)
Community Actors Theatre
- 2957 54th Street, Oak Park
- Bojo's Place: A Musical Revue (starts January 31, 2020)
Coronado Library
- 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado
- San Diego Opera Storytime
Coronado Playhouse
- 1835 Strand Way, Coronado
- Matilda (through February 23, 2020)
Cygnet Theatre
- 4040 Twiggs Street, Old Town
- The Great Leap (starts January 22, 2020)
Diversionary Theatre
- 4545 Park Boulevard, University Heights
- A Kind of Weather (starts February 9, 2020)
Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage
- 1363 Old Globe Way, Balboa Park
- August Wilson’s Jitney (starts January 23, 2020)
First Presbyterian Church
- 320 Date Street, Downtown San Diego
- Matter of Love: A Theatrical Music Journey
The Grand Tea Room
- 145 W. Grand Avenue, Escondido
- High Tea Dinner Theater: Clue On Stage (starts March 5, 2020)
Horton Grand Theatre
- 444 Fourth Avenue, Downtown San Diego
- She Loves Me (starts February 7, 2020)
Joan B. Kroc Theatre
- 6611 University Avenue, Rolando
- 35th Plays by Young Writers Festival
La Costa Canyon High School
- 1 Maverick Way, Carlsbad
- Matilda (starts January 31, 2020)
La Jolla Community Center
- 6811 La Jolla Boulevard, La Jolla
- Golden Age Musical Theatre Singalong
- La Jolla Theatre Ensemble Presents (starts January 26, 2020)
La Jolla Playhouse
- 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, UCSD
- Fly (starts February 23, 2020)
- POP Tour 2020: Emily Driver's Great Race Through Time & Space (starts February 29, 2020)
La Jolla Riford Library
- 7555 Draper Avenue, La Jolla
- Odd Couple Staged Reading
Lamplighters Community Theatre
- 5915 Severin Drive, La Mesa
- God of Carnage (through February 9, 2020)
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center
- 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla
- Sandglass Theater: High School Workshop
- Sandglass Theater: Babylon
- Sandglass Theater: Don't Rock the Boat
The Lodge at Torrey Pines
- 11480 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla
- FLY Cast Meet & Greet Brunch
North Coast Repertory Theatre
- 987-D Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach
- Bloomsday (through February 2, 2020)
Ocean Beach Playhouse
- 4944 Newport Avenue, Ocean Beach
- The Rocky Show 2020 (through March 1, 2020)
The Old Globe Theatre
- 1363 Old Globe Way, Balboa Park
- Little Women (starts March 19, 2020)
- The Gardens of Anuncia (starts May 15, 2020)
Onstage Playhouse
- 291 Third Avenue, Chula Vista
- Always... Patsy Cline (starts May 8, 2020)
- Going To A Place Where You Already Are (through February 16, 2020)
- I Am My Own Wife (starts July 24, 2020)
- Real Women Have Curves (starts March 20, 2020)
Pechanga Arena San Diego
- 3500 Sports Arena Boulevard, Midway District
- Disney On Ice presents Mickey’s Search Party (starts January 23, 2020)
Point Loma Playhouse
- 3035 Talbot Street, Point Loma
- Making God Laugh by Sean Grennan (starts February 21, 2020)
Portuguese Hall
- 2818 Avenida de Portugal, Point Loma
- Drop Dead Dames
San Diego Civic Theatre
- 1100 Third Avenue, Downtown San Diego
- Shen Yun 2020 (starts January 24, 2020)
- The Barber of Seville (starts April 25, 2020)
San Diego Repertory Theatre
- 79 Horton Plaza, Downtown San Diego
- Hershey Felder: A Paris Love Story (starts May 8, 2020)
- House of Joy (starts March 5, 2020)
- The Humans (through February 2, 2020)
Scripps Ranch Theatre
- 9783 Avenue of Nations, Scripps Ranch
- Italian American Reconciliation (through February 16, 2020)
Seaside Center for Spiritual Living
- 1613 Lake Drive, Encinitas
- James Van Praagh & Gordon Smith
Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre
- 1363 Old Globe Way, Balboa Park
- Faceless (starts April 2, 2020)
- Hurricane Diane (starts February 13, 2020)
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (starts June 4, 2020)
Stagehouse Theatre
- 8800 Grossmont College Drive, El Cajon
- Clybourne Park (starts March 12, 2020)
- Golden Boy (starts May 14, 2020)
- Inside the Actor's Process: Love Scenes (starts January 31, 2020)
Star Repertory Theatre
- 329 East Valley Parkway, Escondido
- Suor Angelica (through January 19, 2020)
Star Theatre
- 402 N. Coast Highway, Oceanside
- Lend Me a Tenor (starts February 14, 2020)
Viejas Arena
- 5500 Canyon Crest Drive, SDSU
- Cirque du Soleil: OVO (starts March 5, 2020)
Theater Reviews
Jean Genet’s The Maids baffles
Madame has been a mistress; that is all, and that is enough.
Toward the end of the Nervous Theatre’s production of Jean Genet’s The Maids — which, by the time you read this, will have departed for Seattle after a one-weekend run at the Tenth Avenue Arts ...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Star Wars, and me
New year, (mostly) new critic
Permit me a wry grimace as I imagine theatrical legend Alec Guinness’ reaction upon learning that a theater critic’s first memory of him — of any sort of performance, really — came from Star Wars. ...
The Santaland Diaries: more tidings of comfort and joy
Making the yuletide gay at Diversionary Theatre
Last week, I mentioned the various ways that A Christmas Carol has been tweaked and updated by San Diego theaters in an effort to keep the story from getting lost in its own comfortable familiarity. ...
Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big San Diego Christmas Show: Ha! Humbug
There’s a reason it’s not called A Christmas Carol
The holiday season is a fine time for recalling the way that familiarity breeds…well, if not contempt, then comfort. If a thing sticks around long enough, it’s easy to forget the revolutionary, shocking, or even ...
Lauren Yee’s Cambodian Rock Band: more than a feeling
Keep on rockin’ in the (un)free world
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s production of Lauren Yee’s Cambodian Rock Band, currently playing at La Jolla Playhouse, opens like a low-budget rock n roll show: black stage, a few colored lights mounted on steel scaffolding, ...
Antireviews
The Last Five Years: fragmented like Homer’s The Odyssey
A nonlinear timeline has become quite common in contemporary fiction and film
A crucial component of the storyteller’s craft is placing actions and details in a specific order. For most stories, this is pretty straightforward: start at the beginning, then tell the events in the order they ...
Ring Around the Moon: another My Fair Lady transformation?
Does every woman need a man to fix her?
Ring Around the Moon is a comedy of manners full of the stock characters that populate the genre. The action happens when everyone is invited up to the grand home of the Dowager Countess for ...
Bad Hombres, Good Wives: think Jim Carrey or Chevy Chase physical humor
Find someone whose crazy matches your crazy
This is a funny show. It needs to be funny. If it weren’t funny it would be offensive, especially in our delicate and easily offended culture. The characters are so exaggerated that we don’t take ...
