2+ week, 3+ day ago   (517+ words) San Diego’s artist-driven theater company Chalk Circle Collective is trying something new this weekend, an open workshop production of the new play “Advanced Persistent Teenagers.” The two-weekend production will invite the public inside the creative process. Ticket-buyers can return again…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (826+ words) When Lisa Portes was appointed chair of UC San Diego’s Department of Theatre & Dance in 2024, she was excited for many reasons. The acclaimed Cuban American stage director was thrilled to be returning to her alma mater, where she earned her…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (518+ words) This weekend, Chula Vista’s OnStage Playhouse will open its third world premiere play by San Diego playwright Salomón Maya. All three plays have been produced through OnStage’s new-play development program, where artistic director James P. Darvas works with local playwrights…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (847+ words) The first rule of improv is that you always have to say “yes, and….” Now, dozens of improv artists are saying yes to participating in a new convention for improvisational theater slated to be held in San Diego next week....

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (564+ words) Scaramouche and Galileo just come and go in the famous operatic sequence in Queen’s megahit “Bohemian Rhapsody.” But in “We Will Rock You,” the jukebox musical by Ben Elton that features more than 20 songs by the English rock band, they…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1858+ words) Opening its $82 million Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in April 2019 was a game-changer for La Jolla Music Society. So was the pandemic-fueled shutdown of live events across the country and around the world that arrived just 11 months later. But the…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (96+ words) San Diego Union-Tribune St. Germaine Children’s Charity held its Star Bright Awards dinner at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla on June 4. The event honored this year’s St. Germaine grant recipients — San Diego County organizations that…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (170+ words) San Diego Union-Tribune The Rancho Santa Fe-based Tea3 Foundation held “The Killer Dueling Pianos” event benefitting the FACE Foundation on May 6 at the Fairbanks Ranch Clubhouse. The event featured great food, music and a chance to help sick pets of families…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (584+ words) La Jolla Playhouse’s annual DNA New Work Series is returning for its 13th year at the end of this month. But one key difference sets it apart from other iterations: its oversight by a new playhouse artistic director. The series, with…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago   (317+ words) La Jolla Playhouse will host the eighth Latinx New Play Festival later this month, with four scripts by Latinx playwrights running Nov. 21 through 23. Launched in 2016 at San Diego Repertory Theatre, the LNPF is now co-produced by the Playhouse and TuYo…...