SAN MARCOS–The  San Marcos Theatre West Youth Theater will present the musical production, “Rapunzel, A Hairy Tale,” at the San Marcos Community Center, 3 Civic Center Drive on May 16, 17, 18 and 19. Show times are Thursday and Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday at 2 and 6 p.m.  The show features a [...]

LA JOLLA–La Jolla Playhouse announced today that nationally-renowned scenic designer Robert Brill has been named the theatre’s inaugural Artist-in-Residence. This new, multi-month residency program, supported in part by a generous donation from Playhouse Director Emeritus Des McAnuff, is designed to give artists the freedom to focus on their ongoing body of work, while becoming fully integrated into all [...]

The Old Globe will present the 2013 Shakespeare Festival at the outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre, June 2 to Sept. 29. Subscription tickets from $66 to $270. Single tickets start at $29. Tickets can be purchased online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE, or by visiting the Box Office at 1363 Old Globe Way [...]

SAN DIEGO–Direct from Broadway, the smash-hit musical “American Idiot” tells the story of three lifelong friends, forced to choose between their dreams and the safety of suburbia. Their quest for true meaning in a post 9/11 world leads them on the most exhilarating theatrical journey of the season, running May 28-June 2. Casting has been [...]

LA JOLLA–Prepare to be amazed. Very amazed. San Diego audiences will have a chance to experience the wild and daring theatricality and movement of LA-based Diavolo Dance Theater for two shows only this May. Presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture as part of their Look and Listen Series, Diavolo promised to amaze audiences with their extraordinary [...]

SAN DIEGO–Cygnet Theatre will close its 10th anniversary season by presenting the San Diego premiere of Joe Calarco’s Shakespeare’s R&J. Part Dead Poets Society,part Lord of the Flies, Calarco’s work takes audiences to an all-male Catholic boarding school where four schoolboys secretly discover Shakespeare’s most famous love story. The repressive school bans the play in favor of Latin conjugations and the [...]

LA JOLLA–The La Jolla Playhouse announces the cast and creative team for His Girl Friday, adapted by John Guare (Six Degrees of Separation, House of Blue Leaves) from the Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur play The Front Page and the Columbia Pictures film His Girl Friday. Directed by Playhouse Artistic Director Christopher Ashley (Glengarry Glen Ross, Memphis), the production will kick off the 2013/2014 [...]

SAN DIEGO–New Play Cafe have selected its playwrights and plays for their first production, “The Coffee Shop Chronicles.” The play will feature seven short plays by local playwrights, served up with dessert and coffee, at The Big Kitchen on three successive Friday nights. The Plays and Playwrights: “Terminator 4” by Jonathan Hammond, “Lock and Key” by Delia [...]

LA JOLLA–The La Jolla Playhouse announces its final production for its 2013/14 season with the world premiere of “The Who & The What,” by Ayad Akhtar (Disgraced) and directed by Kimberly Senior (The North Plan). The play will run February 11 through March 9, 2014 in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre. Raised in a [...]

SAN DIEGO–The New Play Cafe’s latest production, The Coffee Shop Chronicles, will feature seven short plays by local playwrights, served up with dessert and coffee at The Big Kitchen. The plays: Terminator 4 by Jonathan Hammond, directed by Kym Pappas, features D. J. Burke, Bryant Hernandez and Carla Nell Lock and Key by Delia Knight, directed by Carla Nell, features [...]