La Jolla is known for it’s gorgeous coastline, but there’s much more to La Jolla when you step off the sand, especially if you’re an arts lover. Incredible museums, outdoor sculptures and murals, and one of the world’s best theater companies are just a few of the area’s fabulous features.
Fall Theater in San Diego: Conjoined Twins, Travesties and Much Ado
Fall in San Diego is pretty great. The weather is warm, the beaches are free of the summer crowds, and there are lots of wonderful fairs and festivals happening nearly every weekend. With so many reasons to stay outdoors, sitting inside a theater may not be at the top of you fall to-do list, but a variety of spectacular offerings from San Diego’s award-winning theaters will surely convince you to stray off the beach for a few hours.
Love, Death and Gossip: San Diego Theatre in May
This May, San Diego’s theatre line-up reads like the cover of a tabloid magazine with the promise of love, death and intrigue. From the fresh retelling of Shakespeare’s classic, Romeo and Juliet, to the stage version of the 1940’s movie, His Girl Friday, May is a great time to get into the gossip and head out to one of San Diego’s top theatres.
San Diego Theatre Preview: Winter 2013
As temperatures cool outdoors, creativity heats up in theatres across San Diego. Check out the grandest form of all theatre with the beautiful and bold productions at the San Diego Opera, or get an intimate view into the theater workshopping process with La Jolla Playhouse’s DNA New Work Series. Check out the San Diego Theatre Preview below for more Winter 2013 must-see shows.
A Dimension Torn Free of the Future: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots at the La Jolla Playhouse
Theater legend Des McAnuff returns to the La Jolla Playhouse to take on a challenging production: adapting an iconic rock album into a musical stage production. The result is a show you soon won’t forget. Read on to find out how Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots comes to life.
Fall for Theatre in San Diego this 2012 Autumn
It’s a musical fall in San Diego’s theater lineup, and big names are the big news. From a whimsical Broadway favorite to a melancholy reflection of American history to giant robots and contemporary indie rock music, these productions offer a theatre experience for just about every theatregoer’s taste.
What Would You Endure for an American Dream?
That is the inadvertent question asked by the latest La Jolla Playhouse production, Hands on a Hardbody. Based on a 1997 documentary about a group of Texans vying to outlast each other by placing one gloved hand on brand new Nissan truck in hopes of driving off with it, this new American musical engages the audience to ask themselves these questions: What you are willing to do for your dream?
5 to Try This Weekend
1. Meet an Astronaut: On Friday, August 26, the San Diego Air & Space Museum is offering a special opportunity to meet Al Worden, command module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971. Worden will give a talk relating his fascinating moon-travel experiences, and sign copies of his new book Falling […]
Get A Sneek Peek Before Broadway
San Diego is a major theater town. Productions that premiere here head off to the Great White Way every year. Lately, we’ve had a lot of luck with musicals like The Old Globe’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and La Jolla Playhouse’s Tony Award-winning Jersey Boys. In fact, debuting this fall on Broadway is Memphis which I saw right here, at […]