Get ready for an unforgettable evening with the legendary Mink Stole and the fabulous Peaches Christ! Two icons. One stage. Countless stories, songs, and surprises. ...
we are continuous
2/13 - 3/9/2025
A poignant exploration of identity, love, and the invisible threads that connect us. Simon and his mother, Ora, have always been inseparable—two souls bound by ...
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Review: WE ARE CONTINUOUS at Diversionary Theatre
by ErinMarie Reiter - March 01, 2025
“We Are Continuous” is an intimate play with an unusual recurring monologue and some in-scene format. Luckily, this production is very well-cast with Marti Gobel, Elliott Sagay, and Eli Wood and is excellently directed by Kian-Kline-Chilton. “We Are Continuous” is playing at Diversionary Theatre thr...
The Roustabouts Theatre Co. Will Present TRUE WEST
by Nicole Rosky - February 23, 2025
The Roustabouts Theatre Co will soon present TRUE WEST, a Pulitzer Prize finalist when first produced in 1989. Step into the raw and riveting world of Sam Shepard's 'True West,' where the blistering heat of the California desert mirrors the searing tensions between estranged brothers, Austin and Lee...
Winners Announced For The 2024 BroadwayWorld San Diego Awards
by BWW Awards - January 16, 2025
Winners have been announced for the 2024 BroadwayWorld San Diego Awards! The 2024 Regional Awards honor regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024....
La Jolla Playhouse Latinx New Play Festival Sets 2025 Date
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 06, 2024
La Jolla Playhouse has revealed the dates for the 2025 Latinx New Play Festival, co-produced with TuYo Theatre. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets....
Review: MIDNIGHT AT THE NEVER GET at Diversionary
by ErinMarie Reiter - November 06, 2024
Midnight at the Never Get is an intimate show that offers a wonderful musical experience and an entertaining and emotional look at how love, social justice, ambition, and some torch songs can create a life—but can they create a happily ever after?...
MIDNIGHT AT THE NEVER GET Comes to Diversionary Theatre
by Stephi Wild - November 05, 2024
Diversionary Theatre has announced the West Coast premiere of Midnight at The Never Get, with book, lyrics, and music by Mark Sonnenblick, conceived by Sam Bolen, Max Friedman, & Mark Sonnenblick, and directed by Stephen Brotebeck....
Diversionary Theatre to Present THE TRANS DIARIES
by Blair Ingenthron - November 01, 2024
Celebrating the fifth year of trans and non-binary writers and performers sharing their lives, Diversionary Theatre and the City of West Hollywood are co-sponsoring The Trans Diaries along with National Organization for Women Hollywood Chapter. ...
DEEP INSIDE TONIGHT! THE KINSEY SICKS Returns to Diversionary Theatre
by Stephi Wild - October 23, 2024
Diversionary Theatre has announced the return of The Kinsey Sicks Dragapella® Quartet for the San Diego Premiere of Deep Inside Tonight! The Kinsey Sicks. ...
Diversionary Theatre Opens Season With MIDNIGHT AT THE NEVER GET
by Stephi Wild - October 01, 2024
Diversionary Theatre has announced the West Coast premiere of Midnight at The Never Get, with book, lyrics, and music by Mark Sonnenblick, conceived by Sam Bolen, Max Friedman, & Mark Sonnenblick, and directed by Stephen Brotebeck. ...
Diversionary Theatre Presents the San Diego Premiere of MANIFEST PUSSY
by A.A. Cristi - August 29, 2024
Diversionary Theatre has announced the San Diego premiere of MANIFEST PUSSY, starring Shakina....
Past Shows
OTTIS
1/24 - 1/25/2025
Lauded by the LA Times , Ottis examines how Ever Mainard’s rural Texas upbringing has affected their queer identity in more ways than they realized. In this ...
Bad Dates
12/7
After earning two 2023 Broadway World Cabaret Awards (Best Spoken Word and Best Debut Show), comedian Adam Sank is bringing his acclaimed one-man show, “Bad ...
Golden Gays: Thank YULE for Being a Friend
12/12 - 11/22/2024
Picture it: San Diego, CA 2024 ‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the store, each department was dripping with Yuletide decor. Sophia was ...
Midnight at the Never Get
10/24 - 11/17/2024
It’s 1965 in Greenwich Village. In an illegal backroom cabaret called The Never Get, lovers Trevor and Arthur perform an act that unabashedly celebrates gay ...
Trans Diaries
11/15 - 11/16/2024
Trans Diaries is celebrating 5 years of trans and non-binary voices, and coming to Diversionary Theatre! Join us for The Trans Diaries 2024 where stories ...
TL;DR Thelma Louise; Dyke Remix
5/9 - 6/9/2024
Winner of the 2021 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theatre Writing. T and L drive their 1966 Ford Thunderbird Convertible off the edge of the ...
The Glass Menagerie
11/30 - 12/23/2023
The mother of queer classics, this nostalgic story of love, regret, and letting go introduced a young Tennessee Williams to the world. Gripped by the ...
DRAGON MAMA
9/14 - 10/8/2023
Maria yearns for a gayer, more diverse life in rural Washington state. When presented with an opportunity to make a quick fortune, she must make ...
Join us in the Clark Cabaret from 5 - 7 pm, for an intimate evening of acoustic original songs from in-demand theater star, Justin Huertas, ...
Head Over Heels
5/25 - 6/18/2023
From the visionary behind Avenue Q comes a bold new Broadway musical fairytale where Once Upon a Time crashes into our present moment. In the ...
Monsters of the American Cinema
3/16 - 4/2/2023
When Remy, a black man, finds himself not only the owner of his late husband’s drive-in, but also the guardian of his straight, white teenage ...
The High Table
2/9 - 3/5/2023
Tara and Leah are planning their perfect wedding: The dresses are chosen, the venue is booked, and the invitations are mailed. But when Tara’s Nigerian ...
The Mystery of Irma Vep
12/3 - 12/24/2022
Gothic horror, Victorian romance, and classic B-movies are whipped together into a diabolical delight for the holidays. When Lady Enid joins her newlywed Lord Edgar ...
THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP
12/1 - 12/24/2022
Gothic horror, Victorian romance, and classic B-movies are whipped together into a diabolical delight for the holidays. When Lady Enid joins her newlywed Lord Edgar ...
Scott Robbins and the Traveling Show
11/11 - 11/12/2022
HURRY HURRY HURRY! STEP RIGHT UP! From the imagination of Tyler Tafolla, comes a wildly theatrical, hilarious and innovative musical fairytale. Set on the Great ...
AZUL
11/18
Show Description: Memories of Yadras childhood in Castros Cuba come flooding back as Alzheimers sets in, inspiring her daughter Zelia to connect with her heritage. ...
one in two
9/23 - 10/24/2021
This revolutionary new play echoes Diversionarys founding 36 years ago in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic by calling us in to raise awareness about how ...
AmeriQueer Series
10/16 - 11/25/2020
The AmeriQueer Series is a collection of plays presented as audiocasts exploring the LGBTQ experience within the American identity as a framework for the 2020 ...
Head Over Heels
5/21 - 6/28/2020
Head Over Heels is a jubilant musical comedy that injects a modern twist on a classic story. Adapted from the 16th-century prose romance "The Countess ...
A Kind of Weather
2/6 - 3/8/2020
Diversionary Theatre Main Stage: A Kind of Weather...
Santaland Diaries
11/21 - 12/22/2019
From the brilliantly twisted mind of David Sedaris comes a classic tonic for the holidaze. Out of work and options, The Santaland Diaries finds David ...
The Santaland Diaries
11/21 - 12/22/2019
Company Artist Todd Waite reprises his role as "Crumpet the Elf" in the outlandish, and true, chronicles of David Sedaris' experience as a worker in ...
Girlfriend
9/12 - 10/13/2019
Nebraska, the 1990s. Two teenage boys—one a social outcast, the other the quintessential jock—explore a relationship during a summer of self-discovery between high school graduation ...
Significant Other
6/13 - 6/23/2019
"Hilarious" - San Diego Union Tribiune. Diversionary Presents SIGNIFICANT OTHER. Synopsis: As Jordan Berman pounds the New York City pavement searching for Mr. Right, he ...
The Loneliest Girl in the World
5/24 - 7/1/2018
Diversionary Theatre Main Stage: book: Gordon Leary; lyrics: Gordon Leary; music: Julia Meinwald; dir: Matt M. Morrow....
The Happiest Place on Earth
3/15 - 4/15/2018
Philip Dawkins; dir: Jonathan L. Green. Diversionary Theatre Main Stage:...
Cardboard Piano
1/25 - 2/25/2018
Hansol Jung; dir: Jacole Kitchen. Diversionary Theatre Main Stage:...
Homos, or Everyone in America
9/14 - 10/15/2017
Jordan Seavey; dir: Matt M. Morrow....
WITHERING HEIGHTS
6/11 - 7/9/2017
By Omri Schein & Phil Johnson Directed by David Ellenstein Bringing together two notable local actors and North Coast Rep’s Artistic Director to direct the ...
The next Open Flame event will be held at Diversionary Theatre on Monday, May 22nd at 7pm. Inspired by our mainstage production of Ballast, this ...
2.5 Minute Ride
2/9 - 3/19/2017
Winner of the 1999 Obie Award, 2.5 Minute Ride is a funny and deeply disquieting story about a daughter who strives to understand the joys ...
Well
2/10 - 3/19/2017
Lisa Kron; dir: Kym Pappas. Mainstage:...
The Mystery of Love and Sex
11/25 - 12/24/2016
Bathsheba Doran; dir: Matt M. Morrow....
The Mystery of Love and Sex
11/25 - 12/24/2016
Bathsheba Doran; dir: Matt M. Morrow....
Lizard Boy
9/29 - 10/30/2016
Justin Huertas; lyrics: Justin Huertas; music: Justin Huertas....
Lizard Boy
9/29 - 10/30/2016
Justin Huertas; lyrics: Justin Huertas; music: Justin Huertas....
"Making Porn" by Ronnie Larsen
7/17 - 7/31/2016
"Making Porn" by Ronnie Larsen takes audiences behind the scenes of the gay pornography industry. Thursdays at 8 p.m., Fridays at 9:30 p.m., Saturdays at ...
The Boy Who Danced on Air
5/5 - 6/12/2016
THE BOY WHO DANCED ON AIR is a modern-day love story set in rural Afghanistan. Paiman and Feda have spent their young lives as dancers ...
Now or Later
2/11 - 3/13/2016
On election night, the son of a Presidential candidate sends his father’s political team into crisis mode when controversial photos of him at a college ...
The Va Va Room
1/7 - 1/10/2016
A Civil War Christmas
12/10 - 1/3/2016
1864 It is Christmastime in Washington, DC. President Lincoln is trying to heal the wounds of a nation. Soldiers on both sides are bravely holding ...
A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration in Concert
12/10 - 1/3/2016
Paula Vogel; music: Daryl Waters; dir: Kim Strassburger....
Bright Half Life
10/29 - 11/29/2015
A moving love story that spans decades in an instant—from marriage, children, skydiving, and the infinite moments that make a life together....
Amazons and Their Men
9/3 - 10/4/2015
Jordan Harrison; dir: Matt M. Morrow....
A New Brain
5/21 - 6/21/2015
A New Brain features music and lyrics by William Finn and book by Finn and James Lapine. A New Brain started as a "series of ...
A New Brain
5/21 - 6/21/2015
Baby with the Bathwater
2/26 - 3/29/2015
Christopher Durang; dir: Andrew Oswald....
Regrets Only
11/20 - 12/21/2014
In Manhattan, where modern life and marriage are never less than complicated, a high-powered lawyer, his socialite wife, and their fabulously successful friend, a noted ...
TRU
8/21 - 9/21/2014
Adapted from the author's own words and work, Truman Capote is alone and lonely in his New York City apartment on the week before Christmas ...
Bare
7/2 - 8/3/2014
A group of teens in a Catholic boarding school wrestle with big questions about who they love, who they are, and who they answer to. ...
Re-Designing Women
5/29 - 6/15/2014
Plagued by the faltering economy, Atlanta-based Sugarbaker Design Firm is on the brink of collapse when vapid ex-beauty queen Suzanne has an idea to save ...
Boys & Girls
2/20 - 3/23/2014
Tom Donaghy; dir: Shana Wride....
Scrooge in Rouge
12/5 - 12/29/2013
Scrooge served with a grown-up twist. Scrooge in Rouge is a quick-change, cross-dressing version of the Dickens holiday classic, set in a Victorian music hall ...
She-Rantulas from Outer Space
10/24 - 11/17/2013
To avoid fainting, keep telling yourself it’s only a play… Just in time for Halloween, Phil Johnson and Ruff Yeager Yeager bring us a hilarious ...
Marry Me a Little
8/29 - 9/29/2013
Marry Me a Little is a musical with lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim, conceived by Craig Lucas and Norman René. The revue sets songs ...
The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler
3/28 - 4/28/2013
- Jeff Whitty....
Birds of a Feather
1/31 - 3/3/2013
The girls are back! One of BBC TV’s most popular and fondly-remembered sitcoms comes to the stage with all three of its original leading cast ...
Harmony, Kansas
6/14 - 7/22/2012
The Pride
4/5 - 5/6/2012
Next Fall
2/16 - 3/25/2012
Edward II
9/8 - 9/30/2011
Videos
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What the Constitution Means to Me
North Coast Repertory Theatre (2/26 - 3/23) | |
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Regency Girls
The Old Globe (4/2 - 5/4) | |
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Bach Collegium San Diego Presents Total Sound Explosion 2! March 15-16
Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church (3/15 - 3/16) | |
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Back to the Garden
Poway OnStage (3/30 - 3/30) | |
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Fade
City College Theatre (5/22 - 5/24) | ||
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The Unfair Advantage: A WOW Experience
La Jolla Playhouse (2/25 - 3/27) | |
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Broadway's Next Hit Musical
Poway OnStage (5/17 - 5/17) | |
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House of India
The Old Globe (5/10 - 6/1) | |
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Anything Goes
California Center for the Arts- Center Theater (3/28 - 3/30) | |
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