San Diego Repertory Theatre Announces Season 43

San Diego Repertory Theatre announced today its Season 43, described as by Artistic Director Sam Woodhouse as "eloquent, personal and brave." Next season is one of the most critically acclaimed lineup of plays that the REP has produced in many years. The REP proudly celebrates the work of female theatre artists, and four of the productions are by award-winning female playwrights. Since this is the REP, the audience can expect the important questions and issues of our time to be on stage, upfront and deeply personal. There is also the cultural exploration of love and loss and the return of actor/musician Hershey Felder, the best-selling artist in San Diego REP history, in a spellbinding performance of Beethoven!

Subscriptions for the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018-2019 season are available now. Highlights of the comedy, drama and music throughout Season 43, which runs September through May, include:

FUN HOME, Tony Award-Winner for Best Musical: Also winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical and the Obie Award for Musical Theater. Fun Home is the coming-out memoir of Alison Bechdel, an exploration of family, memory, first love and a daughter's relationship with her father.

A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2: A door slams. Fifteen years later Nora is back. Based on Henrik Ibsen's classic play and nominated for eight Tony Awards including Best Play.

ACTUALLY: What actually happened? Playwright Anna Ziegler investigates gender, politics and the three sides to every story. Winner of the Southern California's Ovation Award for Best Production of a Play.

AUBERGINE: Comfort food takes on a new meaning in Julia Cho's drama about a Korean-American chef taking charge of his dying father's care where a perfect meal can have magical, life-giving properties. Aubergine delivers a moving meditation on love, loss and the emotional power of food.

Hershey Felder, BEETHOVEN: A return of a Hershey Felder, best-selling artist in San Diego REP history (Our Great Tchaikovsky). Felder takes center stage as the young boy, Gerhard von Breuning, Beethoven's best friend's son who took take care of Beethoven in his last two years. Through him, Felder brings Beethoven to life featuring some of Beethoven's greatest works played live including Symphony No. 9, Emperor Concerto and Moonlight Sonata.

SWEAT: Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play, Lynn Nottage goes where few playwrights have dared to go-into the heart of working-class America. Her insightfully observed characters all went to the same schools, work at the same factory, drink at the same bar and are going to hell in the same hand basket.

"Next season's productions will cover a variety of topics including LGBT issues, female empowerment, sexual consent, race, class and corporations versus unions-the same issues that make the headlines and shape our lives each day," stated Woodhouse.

Season 43/six-play subscription prices: $252-$402; available March 18, 2018.

• All subscriptions include free parking, up to a $60 value.
• Premiere subscriptions include free drinks, up to a $54 value.
• Season 43/four-play and flexible ticketing packages also available.
• Single tickets go on sale June 1, 2018.
• Purchase subscriptions in-person at the San Diego Rep box office, by phone at 619.544.1000 or online at www.sdrep.org/Subscribe.

San Diego Repertory Theatre (San Diego REP) produces intimate, exotic, provocative theatre. Founded in 1976, San Diego Rep is downtown San Diego's resident theatre, promoting a more inclusive community through work that nourishes progressive, political and social values and celebrates the multiple voices of our region. The company produces and hosts more than 550 events and performances year-round on its three stages at the Lyceum Theatre.

Since moving to the Lyceum, The REP has produced 45 main stage productions by Latino playwrights and more than 40 world premieres. The company has received more than 200 awards for artistic excellence from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle, Patté Theatre Awards, NAACP, Backstage West, Dramalogue and StageSceneLA. In 2005, the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle presented The REP with the Craig Noel Award "For 30 Years of Artistic Dedication to Downtown and Diversity." San Diego Repertory Theatre feeds the curious soul. To learn more about San Diego Repertory Theatre, purchase tickets or make a donation, visit www.sdrep.org. Join us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/sandiegorep) and follow us on Twitter (@SanDiegoREP) and Instagram (@SanDiegoRepertoryTheatre).

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