Cynthia Erivo
2025-08-17 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress, singer and producer, Cynthia Erivo is joined by the San Diego Symphony Orchestra led by Conductor Anthony Parnther.

The Heart
2025-08-19 - 2025-09-21 | La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States
Follow one precious heart on its life-saving journey from donor to recipient, and meet the people whose lives are impacted along the way. This breathtaking new musical is an enlightening, edge-of-your-seat ride on a powerful wave of emotion.

Barbie the Movie: In Concert
2025-08-22 19:30 - 21:30 | The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
Dance the night away with Barbie The Movie: In Concert! The record-shattering, full-length feature film will be accompanied by a live orchestra, performing both the score and the beloved pop songs from the iconic soundtrack.

Jurassic Park in Concert
2025-08-23 | The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
Audiences can experience Jurassic Park,,the action-packed adventure that pits man against prehistoric predators in the ultimate battle for survival. as never before: projected in HD with a full symphony orchestra performing John Williams’ iconic score live to picture.

Boyz II Men with SDSO
2025-08-24 | The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
Boyz II Men returns to The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park with the San Diego Symphony following the Grammy Award-winning group’s sold-out debut at the venue in 2022. Comprising of Nathan Morris, Wanya Morris and Shawn Stockman, the group has sold over 60 million albums, and holds the distinction of being the best-selling R&B group of all time.
Conducted by Christopher Dragon and performed with San Diego Bay and Downtown San Diego as the backdrop, this is a Boyz II Men experience custom-made for Southern California.

"Weird Al" Yankovic: Bigger & Wierder 2025 Tour
2025-08-29 | The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
Weird Al brings his legendary full-production multimedia comedy rock show back to the concert stage, playing his iconic hits as well as some never-performed-live-before fan favorites. Al’s long-time band is joined by four additional players to create a super-sized concert experience.

Tchaikovsky Spectacular
2025-08-30 | The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
Conductor Stephanie Childress – Principal Guest Conductor of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra – makes her San Diego Symphony debut in the orchestra’s annual favorite, Tchaikovsky Spectacular.
Featuring many of the composer’s most celebrated works, the program also includes Chopin’s romantic Piano Concerto No. 1, delivered by Austrian pianist Kiron Atom Tellian, who is also making his SDSO debut, and culminates in the 1812 Overture, with a pyrotechnic display in the skies above The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park and the San Diego Bay.

Best of the 90s Mixtape
2025-08-31 | The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
Enjoy many of the decade’s greatest hits – brought to you by conductor Stuart Chafetz, a cast of all-star performers and the San Diego Symphony Orchestra – such as “Livin La Vida Loca,” “Killing Me Softly,” “Getting’ Jiggy Wit It,” “One,” “I’m Your Baby Tonight” and many more!

An Evening with Chicago
2025-09-10 | The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
Hailed as one of the “most important bands in music since the dawn of the rock and roll era,” Chicago continue to be true ambassadors for their beloved hometown, carrying the city’s name with pride and dignity around the world

Huzzah!
2025-09-13 - 2025-10-19 | The Old Globe, 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 92101, United States
Huzzah! Is a world-premiere musical comedy about two sisters, one a princess and one who works in insurance who must stop fighting to save their father’s Renaissance Faire from financial ruin.

Classics Albums Live Performs Prince: Purple Rain
2025-09-20 19:30 - 21:30 | The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
Regularly ranked among the greatest albums of all time, Prince’s Purple Rain was the artist’s first to reach #1 on the Billboard 200, where it spent nearly half a year atop the charts. Brought to you live by the artists at Classic Albums Live, experience the artistry of the entire album – plus other great hits from Prince – note for note, cut for cut!

French Fairytales: Ravel & Debussy
2025-10-03 - 2025-10-05 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Glorious and theatrical celebration of the light and enchantment of France and French music, beginning with Debussy’s evocation of a journey to a mysterious island of love, and his witty and charming ballet score for children about the adventures of a box of toys.

Romantic Visions: Schumann’s Symphony No. 2
2025-10-11 - 2025-10-12 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Spain as evoked by the French composer Chabrier is followed by a lush new piano concerto, written by San Diego Symphony Composer-in-Residence Jimmy López for soloist Javier Perianes and filled with echoes of Latin melodies and dance rhythms.

Music of the Heavens Holt’s Planets
2025-10-17 - 2025-10-18 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
A concert about the skies above us, beginning with Auerbach’s cinematic description of the Ancient Greek mythological hero Icarus followed by Ralph Vaughan Williams’s most popular piece, The Lark Ascending.

The King Singer’s
2025-10-19 18:00 - 20:00 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
The King’s Singers, a Grammy and Emmy-award winning a cappella singing group, renowned for their unrivalled technique, musicianship and versatility.

Alisa Wellerstein: Fragments 4
2025-10-29 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
The fourth installment of the groundbreaking performance series for solo cello performed by Alisa Weilerstein, woven together with Johan Sebastian Bach’s third cello suite.

Where the Shining Trumpets Blow: Payare Leads Bruckner No. 4
2025-11-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Bruckner’s spacious symphonies are filled with images of the countryside and high mountains of his native Austria; his Symphony No. 4 “Romantic” is especially loved for its magnificent writing for the horns, using these instruments to suggest wild huntsmen riding across a landscape.

Tales of Enchantment: Hadelich Plays Sibelius
2025-11-14 - 2025-11-15 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
From Schubert in the early 19th century to Sibelius 100 years later, the Romantic composers were fascinated by the strange and the exotic, by the unfamiliar and the otherworldly.

Lea Salonga: Stage, Screen & Everything in Between
2025-11-15 18:00 - 20:00 | The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
Musical theatre royalty and official Disney Legend Lea Salonga is bringing her acclaimed Stage, Screen & Everything In Between tour to the Rady Shell. Lea will perform songs from her iconic roles from Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, Aladdin and Mulan.

Davina and The Vagabonds
2025-11-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Davina Sowers and the Vagabonds have created a stir on the national music scene with their high-energy live shows, level A musicianship, sharp-dressed professionalism, and Sowers’ commanding stage presence.

Drama and Pathos: Goosby Plays Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
2025-12-06 - 2025-12-07 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Korean composer Unsuk Chin’s subito con forza provides a thrilling opening to a concert of music mixing savage drama with the sweetest possible melodies, played by Randall Goosby.

2 Pianos 4 Hands
2025-12-12 - 2025-12-31 | North Coast Rep, 987 Lomas Santa Fe Dr Suite D, Solana Beach, CA, 92075, United States
This holiday, audience favorite returns with music and laughter. Journey with would-be career, concert pianists who trade stories about piano lessons, pushy parents and eccentric teachers while they play everything from Bach to Billy Joel.

Steve Hackman’s Beethoven X Beyoncé
2026-02-06 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Steve Hackman’s production seamlessly weaves 15 of Beyoncé’s popular songs with the familiar classical music of Beethoven. The production’s emotional peak features the soulful union of two of the most recognizable melodies from each composer: Beyoncé’s “Halo” and the hauntingly beautiful second movement from Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony.

Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler
2026-02-07 - 2026-03-15, 2026-02-27 - 2026-03-15 | The Old Globe, 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 92101, United States
Katie Holmes brings to life a landmark role in a new version of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler—a defining masterpiece about honeymooners whose marriage begins to crack and the world around them begins to unravel.

Fiasco Theater’s Bartleby
2026-02-27 - 2026-03-15 | The Old Globe, 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 92101, United States
Fiasco Theater Company and The Old Globe take on Herman Melville’s darkly comic classic—a hilarious and haunting reflection on work, will, and what happens when one mild-mannered employee refuses to go along with the program. This Globe-commissioned world premiere promises a wildly theatrical rediscovery of one of American literature’s most indelible stories.

Recipe: A New Play About Julia Child
2026-02-27 - 2026-03-22 | La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States
Before Julia Child became the TV personality that we all know, she careened from Pasadena to New York to Washington DC to Ceylon and finally to Paris’s famed Cordon Bleu cooking school. A funny and delicious new play about the early life of an endlessly fascinating character and her path from confusion to discovery, failure to success.

Carmen
2026-03-27 08:00 - 17:00 | San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 3rd Ave, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
The most fearless and indomitable heroine in all opera is back! When Carmen tosses a flower to the soldier Don José, he becomes obsessed, leaving his post to join her band of smugglers. But when she loses interest and sets her sights on a bullfighter, Don José may not be able to handle the rejection.

August Wilson’s Fences
2026-04-04 - 2026-05-04 | The Old Globe, 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 92101, United States
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.

Brubeck Quartet’s Time Out
2026-04-04 19:30 - 21:30 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
A record-breaking jazz album by the West Coast-cool Dave Brubeck Quartet that explores a variety of musical styles and time signatures. The first jazz album to sell a million copies was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Enjoy a celebration of the songs from this Grammy Hall of Fame album with a preshow performance from Young Lions Jazz Conservatory.
