VISTA–The Moonlight Cultural Foundation’s Encore Youth Theatre will host a summer dance workshop for youths ages 10 and up from 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. July 9 at Brengle Park Recreation Center, 1200 Vale Park Terrace in Vista. Participants will learn various dance styles including ballet, tap, jazz, and contemporary. The dance workshop is open to […]
La Jolla Playhouse receives major grant from The James Irvine Foundation
LA JOLLA–The La Jolla Playhouse is pleased to announce that it was recently named the recipient of a $900,000 grant from The James Irvine Foundation. The grant will fund the Playhouse’s new Theatre Without Walls program over the next four years. Underscoring the theatre’s mission of providing “unfettered creative opportunities for the leading artists of […]
Cygnet’s Playwright Companion Series continue with The Vortex
SAN DIEGO–Noël Coward is alive and well at Cygnet Theatre. With the current run of Coward’s “Private Lives” receiving raves on the mainstage, Associate Artistic Director Francis Gercke has assembled a stellar cast of San Diego favorites to deliver a staged reading of his most famous drama, “The Vortex.” This performance marks the continuation of […]
La Jolla Playhouse wins 4 Tony Awards, including Best Musical for Memphis
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), […]
Talent to aMuse presents “Engaged”
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 […]
San Marcos Theatre West to present Little Mermaid
SAN MARCOS–The City of San Marcos Theatre West Youth Theater will present the musical production, Little Mermaid, at the San Marcos Community Center, 3 Civic Center Drive on June 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13. Show times are Fridays 7:30 pm; Saturdays 2 and 7:30 pm; and Sundays 2 pm. A cast of 40 young […]
Broadway’s In The Heights coming to San Diego
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 […]
Avenue Q returns to San Diego Civic Theatre this summer
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, […]
Sullivan Players presents Hot l Baltimore
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 […]
School of Creative and Performing Arts dancers to perform Missa Brevis
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 […]