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San Diego Repertory Theatre to suspend operations after 46 years

Financial problems, construction at Horton Plaza and low ticket sales blamed for shutdown, with plans to restructure
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Theater Notebook: Two high school teens headed to New York from Broadway San Diego awards

Also this week: News from Diversionary Theatre, Moonlight Stage Productions, Scripps Ranch Theatre and Lamb’s Players Theatre
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How director Shana Cooper aims to tame Shakespeare’s controversial ‘Shrew’ with radical vulnerability

The outdoor production opens the Old Globe’s 2022 Summer Shakespeare Festival
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San Diego Opera prepares, again, for West Coast premiere of pandemic-delayed ‘Aging Magician’

The 2016 composition features actor/singer/musician Rinde Eckert, a string quartet and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus
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Theater Notebook: Old Globe-born ‘Almost Famous’ musical to make a Broadway run later this year

Also in this week’s theater news: ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ tickets are on sale, San Diego Opera will host a third hackathon, and more

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La Jolla Playhouse’s 2022 Without Walls Festival opens Thursday. Here’s your guide

Twenty-four shows will be presented with multiple performances — many of them free and outdoors — over a four-day period
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Old Globe’s ‘Bob Fosse’s Dancin’’ aims to both honor and reinvent legendary choreographer’s 1978 show

Broadway-bound world premiere is directed by Wayne Cilento, the Tony-nominated star of the original ‘Dancin’’ production
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Theater Notebook: San Diego theaters rolling back their vaccine and mask policies as state restriction lifts

Also this week in San Diego theater news: La Jolla Playhouse announces fellowship program for BIPOC directors and stage managers
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Theater Notebook: Old Globe unveils yearlong ‘Henry VI’ Shakespeare project

Also in this week’s San Diego theater news: ‘Rent’ farewell tour ends five-year run in San Diego this month and Graber joins San Diego Opera
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Theater Notebook: 3 theaters roll out play fests in April celebrating local, Black and emerging playwrights

The Old Globe, San Diego Rep and New Village Arts are hosting live and online play readings beginning Monday
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Cygnet’s post-pandemic ‘Water by the Spoonful’ to look at real families and found families

Director Meg DeBoard makes her Cygnet debut and actor Steven Lone returns to a familiar role
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CCA spring live theater returns with two productions

Canyon Crest Academy Envision Theater Arts presents two live spring productions: The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical and The Wolves.
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Santa Fe Christian Theatre presents ‘42nd Street’ now through March 19 at the Star Theater

Since March 2020, Santa Fe Christian (SFC) has had to limit productions due to the COVID-19 shutdown.
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North Coast Repertory Theatre presents ‘A Conversation with Edith Head’

North Coast Repertory Theatre will feature Susan Claassen in the award-winning “A Conversation with Edith Head”, a behind-the-scenes feast of great movie lore and delicious stories as told by eight-time Academy Award-winning costume designer Edith Head.
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La Jolla Playhouse breaks new theatrical ground with ‘Bhangin’ It’ musical

World premiere musical explores the world of U.S. competitive intercollegiate Bhangra Indian folk dance and music