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09/29/2025

Loud Fridge Theatre Group has returned with the premiere of San Diego playwright Christian St. Croix's new full-length version of his 2024 play "We Lovers."

Loud Fridge Theatre Group is presenting the premiere of Christian St. Croix’s now-full-length play

09/29/2025

The San Diego Food + Wine Festival is marking its 21st year in November, with three new events and initiatives, including award-winning chefs, a food forum and wellness weekend.

Marking its 21st year, the event Nov. 2-9 will feature an expanded lineup of award-winning chefs

09/28/2025

Here's your guide to this week's San Diego Tijuana International Jazz Festival. The lineup features an all-star tribute to sax legend James Moody, Grammy Awards-winners Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, John Clayton, David Sanchez, Jorge Francisco Castillo, rising young talents Gabrielle Cavassa and Lucia, San Diego favorites Gilbert Castellanos, Irving Flores, and more.

Admission is free to a majority of the multiday festival. The lineup boasts four Grammy Award-winners, including Arturo O’Farrill, John Clayton, Jorge Castillo and David Sanchez.

09/28/2025

Welcome back! Escondido native Gabrielle Cavassa is flying in from New Orleans to sing Saturday at the 2025 San Diego Tijuana International Jazz Festival “This will be my first time singing in Escondido since I was in high school," she says, "and I can’t wait.” Gabrielle Cavassa Music

The Escondido native is now a New Orleans resident. She is the 2021 winner of the prestigious Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition.

09/28/2025

Next month, the Tony-winning 2024 Broadway musical "Suffs" arrives in San Diego via Broadway San Diego. U-T theater critic Pam Kragen spoke with writer/composer/lyricist/star Shaina Taub about growing up a "loud" theater kid, the inspiration for her suffragist musical, the importance of comedy and flawed women in the story, the cathartic audience reaction that "Suffs" inspired each night in New York and what she's working on now.

The women’s suffrage-themed Broadway musical, which won 2024 Tony awards for its score and book, arrives this week at the San Diego Civic Theatre

09/28/2025

2025 Fall Arts Preview: San Diego’s busy summer season may be winding down, but that hardly means the region’s artistic and cultural machines come to a screeching halt. If anything, it’s ramping up. This fall, galleries, museums and art centers throughout the county are opening their doors for new exhibits. Here’s a sampling of some of the most anticipated shows and exhibitions coming this autumn.

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09/28/2025

2025 Fall Arts Preview: "Once I started accepting myself and not worrying about what other people thought of me, doors started opening for me," says Hillcrest-based artist RD Riccoboni.

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09/26/2025

It's been 26 years since Pearl Cleage's Harlem-set, Depression-era drama "Blues for an Alabama Sky" has been performed in San Diego. That drought ends next week with a new production at MOXIE Theatre.

The Pearl Clage play was last staged in San Diego at The Old Globe in 1999

09/26/2025

20 years before the musical "Kimberly Akimbo" came along in 2021, it started out as a non-musical play by David Lindsay-Abaire. The touching 2001 comedy-drama about a teenage girl with a premature aging disease is opening this weekend at Scripps Ranch Theatre

The story of a 16-year-girl with a premature aging disorder is more famous as a 2021 stage musical

09/26/2025

On Thursday, The Old Globe opened the world premiere musical "Huzzah!" a laugh-out-loud sendup of the extended community of players who work at a struggling Renaissance fair. The U-T review:

The crowd-pleasing comedy sends up, with affection, the extended family at an American historical festival

09/26/2025

2025 Fall Arts Preview: From the world premiere of a "Working Girl" musical to a Spanish-language twist on the "Grinch," there's something for everyone this season. Here are our top stage picks this fall.

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09/26/2025

2025 Fall Arts Preview: Lena Ceja, a young musical theater performer who moved to San Diego three years ago, has quickly become a star in the local theater scene.

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