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“The Great Leap,” a basketball-centric play, is coming to Old Town San Diego’s Cygnet Theatre Jan. 22, 2020. Written by multi-award-winner Lauren Yee, it was one of the 10 most-produced plays in the United States in 2019, along with her “Cambodian Rock Band,” recently staged at La Jolla Playhouse. “The Great Leap,” which premiered in Denver in 2018, is about an American basketball team going to China for an exhibition game. There’s more than a game at stake; there are long-buried personal histories, a clash of dreams and ambitions, and the main setting is Beijing in 1989, when student protesters were about to be massacred in Tienanmen Square. With all this going on, there’s still plenty of humor — one of the playwright’s conspicuous gifts.
When the Playwrights Project unveiled its 35th annual iteration of its Plays by Young Writers Festival, a familiar North County name popped up: Izzy Ster, a 16-year-old Carmel Valley resident and junior at Canyon Crest Academy.
In Neil Simon’s classic comedy “The Sunshine Boys,” a long-retired vaudeville duo agree to set aside their decades-long animosity to re-team for one last performance. But some old habits die hard. The 1972 comedy gets a funny and spirited workout at North Coast Repertory Theatre in Solana Beach, which is the ideal venue for the play. It presents Simon’s works more than any other local professional theater and its longtime artistic director, David Ellenstein, has long provided senior actors — like Simon’s 70-something vaudevillians — the chance to show audiences that they’ve still got it.
“Nobody knew about things like that then – science just wasn’t as advanced, the way it is now” – Harriet Roeder, Radium Girls, D.
The Theatre School @ North Coast Rep presents the swashbuckling epic adventure The Three Musketeers as its next student production.
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Tenth Avenue Arts Center will host “No Distractions,” the first full-length play from a theater company run by a local college student who wants to get more youth involved in the medium, from Aug. 29-31. -
Rehearsals are underway for “Amadeus,” the North Coast Repertory Theatre’s 38th season-opening show that debuts Sept. 4.
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On May 1, Torrey Pines High School performed the final act in a saga over 20 years in the making: a dramatic and emotional ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new performing arts center.
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Third Bloom Florals & Gifts in the Rancho Santa Fe village has launched a heartwarming new social awareness campaign to benefit Helen Woodward Animal Center.
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Sponsored and supported by the Torrey Pines Education Fund of the Torrey Pines High School Foundation, the Torrey Pines High School Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) team attended their first SoCal DECA conference in Anaheim Jan. 10-12.
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The Village Church’s Faith & Work Initiative has released its most recent “Profiles in Faith & Work” video, featuring Katie Colleen Hickey.
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As horse racing revenue declines and fair attendance levels off, the search begins for new ways to make money
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Week of crazy results scrambles Avocado West Soccer
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THEATER REVIEW: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would be interested to see how well his characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr.
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Canyon Crest Academy’s Envision theatre program will explore right and wrong, and good versus evil, in its two productions in the upcoming season.
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Canyon Crest Academy Dance Conservatory recently announced performances for its newest dance production, “The Rainbow Catcher,” written, produced and directed by Dance Conservatory Director Rayna Stohl.
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