Set in 1957, this Pulitzer Prize and. Tony Award-winning play follows Troy Maxson, a former Negro League baseball star, now a sanitation worker. Grappling with the burden of his broken dreams, Troy struggles to assert control over his family and his future.
Set in 1957, this Pulitzer Prize and. Tony Award-winning play follows Troy Maxson, a former Negro League baseball star, now a sanitation worker. Grappling with the burden of his broken dreams, Troy struggles to assert control over his family and his future.
Alien Girls is a heart-filled comedy about the tensions between creating art and creating life. It is a tale of best friends—one pregnant and the other failing to be happy for her. True feelings are revealed, and the fallout may be irreparable.
Alien Girls is a heart-filled comedy about the tensions between creating art and creating life. It is a tale of best friends—one pregnant and the other failing to be happy for her. True feelings are revealed, and the fallout may be irreparable.
Trevor Pinnock, one of the great masters of Baroque and Classical music in our age, and Alexandra Dovgan, a young pianist already celebrated across the world for the majesty and beauty of her playing, join the Orchestra together for the first time for a glorious all-Beethoven program, filled with high drama, hope, and nobility.
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band is an 18-piece jazz orchestra, led by talented and creative pianist, that combines the big band swing of the 1930s and 1940s with funk and jazz fusion. Fans will recognize the band from the Pixar film The Incredibles and in music from The Naked Gun.
Renowned Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz writes music of visceral energy and melodic sweetness, and the San Diego Symphony Orchestra is taking part in her new cello concerto Dzonot, specially written for cellist Alisa Weilerstein. The program, led by conductor Rafael Payare concluded with Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 written during World War II as a tribute […]
The most awarded play of 2025 makes its West Coast Premiere at La Jolla Playhouse. For decades, the influential Jasper family of Chicago has been a pillar of Black American Politics: civil rights leaders, celebrity pastors and congressmen. When the youngest son Nazareth returns home with an uninvited friend in tow, the family is forced […]
Heart and humor take the stage in this award-winning comedy that inspired the hit Netflix series. Korean-born Mr. Kim runs a Toronto convenience store while raising his Canadian children with traditional values. As generational tensions rise, one family’s everyday struggles become a metaphor for a changing society.
Three works inspired in different ways by folk music and the mix of different cultures. Perú Negro (Black Peru), by San Diego Symphony’s Composer-in-Residence Jimmy López, was composed in 2012; Alban Berg’s last completed work, his mystical Violin Concert written in 1935; and Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony. Conductor Rafael Payare leads the San Diego Symphony Orchestra […]
The season ends with two of the most spectacular scores from the late romantic period: Strauss’s epic tone-poem Also Sprach Zarathustra, and Bartók’s dramatic Bluebeard’s Castle. Both these magnificent works use extreme and glittering orchestral colors to represent the real colors of the world and the cosmos – dawn, sunlight, vast mountain views, sunset, and […]
The season ends with two of the most spectacular scores from the late romantic period: Strauss’s epic tone-poem Also Sprach Zarathustra, and Bartók’s dramatic Bluebeard’s Castle. Both these magnificent works use extreme and glittering orchestral colors to represent the real colors of the world and the cosmos – dawn, sunlight, vast mountain views, sunset, and […]
