San Diego Theatre Newsroom

SACRA/PROFANA presents the world premiere of 'All We Need: Meditations on Queer Being,' exploring themes of identity and community through music. Join this unique choral experience celebrating queer voices.

Interview with 'Stir' writers and performers Melinda Lopez and Joel Perez about their new show about food, family, and love making its world premiere at the Old Globe and plays through May 26th.

Hot on the heels of her Adelaide Fringe Festival and Melbourne Comedy International Festival comes Uma Dobia's San Diego International Fringe Festival debut with her playful cabaret, Intolerant. 

Experience the captivating performance of Dr. Glas at North Coast Repertory Theatre, returning after its acclaimed 2021 streaming premiere.

New Village Arts will present the San Diego Professional Premiere of the groundbreaking musical: THE COLOR PURPLE, based on the novel by Alice Walker.

CCAE Theatricals presents EVERY BRILLIANT THING, a one-person play by Olivier Award-nominated Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe, to close its 2024 season.

Discover the SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY's 2024-25 season in the newly renovated Jacobs Music Center. Experience the milestone season in the revitalized, century-old theater transformed into an intimate concert venue.

Get a first look at photos of Stir at The Old Globe. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.

Diversionary Theatre has announced an extension for the world premiere of the new musical TL;DR: Thelma Louise; Dyke Remix, book and lyrics by EllaRose Chary, music and lyrics by Brandon James Gwinn, direction by Sherri Eden Barber, and musical direction by E. Renée Gamez.

Audiences will be treated to an evening of enchantment as North Coast Repertory Theatre presents CAMELOT, adapted for intimate theatres.

Join Villa Musica and La Jolla Symphony & Chorus, as they collaborate for Carnegie Hall's Link Up Program. Over 375 3rd and 4th grade students will perform at the Epstein Family Amphitheatre at UCSD on May 11th.

Diversionary Theatre has announced its 39th (2024-2025) season, which will feature a line up of premieres that will continue to honor the theatre's legacy of bringing LGBTQIA+ audiences new and exciting stories for, by, and about the community.

Cygnet Theatre has announced Olivia Clement as the recipient of the 2024 Dee Silver, M.D. Commission.

The Old Globe has announced the full cast and creative team for Henry 6, a world premiere adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Parts I, II, and III, adapted and directed by Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein. 

Experience the bittersweet and daring dark Irish comedy, THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN, presented by The Theatre School @ North Coast Rep. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Interview with Erica Marie Weisz on playing the three leading ladies in the comedy 'The 39 Steps' currently playing at New Village Arts through May 12th.

Experience the heart of the Swap Meet with TuYo Theatre's interactive musical, PÁSALE PÁSALE. Learn how to purchase tickets.

 “Sense of Decency” makes its world premiere using misdirection, manipulation, and magic to try to find the difference between a monster and a man.  “Sense of Decency” is playing at North Coast Repertory Theatre through May 12th.

Experience a spectacular night of classic Shakespeare scenes and Broadway Musical numbers at the 3rd Annual The Bard Goes to Broadway event.

Celebrate the 12th year of the San Diego International Fringe Festival, featuring over 70 global acts. Enjoy theater, comedy, music, circus, immersive and dance performances on seven different stages across San Diego. Preview on May 14.

Oceanside Theatre Company has announced the cast for its production of Next to Normal running May 10 through May 26 at the Sunshine Brooks Theater in downtown Oceanside.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is April 23, 2024 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Write Out Loud - an organization founded in 2007 with a commitment to inspire, challenge and entertain by reading short stories aloud for a live audience continues to celebrate the 2024 NEA BIG READ with community events. These community events celebrate the novel Circe by Madeleine Miller and Mythology by Edith Hamilton. 

It is a novel and a hit film, but now New Village Arts brings all the mystery, murder, and imagination of “The 39 Steps” to life in this comedic Hitchcock homage through May 12th. 

It seems apt that “Brat” had its world premiere in the Light Box Theatre at Liberty Station. a former military location last weekend and during April which is the month of the military child. This new play presented by  Bocón Theatre looks at the unique life of being a kid of a military parent, aka a “brat.' The next performance is Friday, April 26th.