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LA JOLLA–La Jolla Playhouse’s Broadway production of “Memphis,” which highlighted the Playhouse’s 2008/09 season before transferring to Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre and then to Broadway, was recognized with four Tony Awards during the live, internationally televised awards ceremony last evening, June 13. The show took home awards for Best Musical, Best Original Score, (David Bryan), [...]
SAN DIEGO–Talent to aMuse presents “Engaged,” June 11-20 at Swedenborg Hall in San Diego. This Victorian comedy – rarely performed in America – was written by W.S. Gilbert (one half of the famed Gilbert & Sullivan partnership) and first produced in London in 1877. “Engaged” is directed by Welton Jones, with a cast featuring Samuel [...]
Cast of In The Heights. Photo: © Janet Macoska. SAN DIEGO–“In The Heights,” winner of four 2008 Tony Awards® and the 2008 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Show Album, is coming to San Diego Civic Theatre, July 27 through August 1. “In The Heights” tells the uiversal story of a vibrant community in New York’s [...]
SAN DIEGO–“Avenue Q,” the smash-hit Broadway musical about real life in New York City, as told by a cast of people and puppets, will return in a Broadway/San Diego ~ A Nederlander Presentation, playing at the San Diego Civic Theatre Tuesday July 6 through Sunday July 11. “Avenue Q” tells the story of Princeton, [...]
SAN DIEGO–Sullivan Players presents “The Hot l Baltimore” running May 8-30 at Swedenborg Hall. The play, by Lanford Wilson, is set in the lobby of the Hotel Baltimore. The play focuses on the residents of the decaying property who are faced with eviction when the structure is condemned. The play draws its title from the [...]
SAN DIEGO–José Limón, the world-renown dancer and choreographer who died in 1972, was viscerally moved by the devastation of war-torn Europe in 1945 and its effect on the people of Poland when his dance company toured Europe funded by the US Department of State. The spirit and optimism of the people of Europe, as they [...]
SAN DIEGO–Executive Producer Lou Spisto announced that due to unforeseen conflicts with Roger Rees’ schedule, The Old Globe’s upcoming production of What You Will has been replaced with Golda’s Balcony starring four-time Tony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh. Written by William Gibson and supervised by Scott Schwartz, Golda’s Balcony earned Feldshuh a Tony Award nomination for [...]
SAN DIEGO–Cygnet and the San Diego Black Theatre Collective – including Common Ground Theatre, the Ira Aldridge Repertory Players, the San Diego Black Ensemble and the Vagabond Theatre Project – are uniting to cross market their separate productions and encourage San Diego audiences to see a variety of powerful works written by African American playwrights [...]
LA JOLLA–The award-winning J*Company Youth Theatre, a program of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, is pleased to announce its production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ever-popular The Sound of Music. The production will run March 4-21 at the David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre. Based [...]
