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The Nov. 28 world premiere will tell the story of 13th-century Florentine poet Dante Alighieri and his muse, Beatrice

Print For San Diego Repertory Theatre, the downside of having to produce its 28th annual Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival online is not being able to bring the community together under one roof. But the upside is that this year’s virtual festival running May 13 through June 23 will be largest and most international festival ever. Among the artists scheduled for concerts, plays, Q&A sessions and other events are Tony Award winner Ben Platt and his singing brothers, Hershey Felder...

Print On April 23, the Old Globe will premiere a new audio adaptation of its top-selling 2017 production of “Hamlet” on KPBS Radio 89.5 FM. Old Globe artistic director Barry Edelstein directed “Hamlet” four years ago, and he reunited almost every member of its cast for “Hamlet: On the Radio,” including star Grantham Coleman as the troubled Danish prince Hamlet. Yet despite the similarities to the high-tech 2017 staging, the radio adaptation will also be different. Coleman said he h...

On Sunday, San Diego Repertory Theatre will host the world premiere of “Before Fiddler — Live from Florence,” Hershey Felder’s sixth music-filled play streamed live from his home in Florence, Italy, since last May. Fans accustomed to the playwright/actor’s solo shows expect to see him playing piano as he tells the story of a famous composer. But “Before Fiddler” is a first in many ways. Streaming live at 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 7, is about the famous 19th-century Yiddish author and pl...

The interactive theater project is a trio of encounters between strangers that take place over several months. Part 1, which will begin Thursday, is a scheduled phone call in which two audience members will be paired together to create a shared fiction through a series of prompts. Part 2 will take place in a few months, when two audience members will sit at a table, separated by a pane of glass, to create another story using a stack of index cards, a handful of objects and a set of instruction...

When San Diego theaters abruptly shut down March 12 due to the pandemic, nobody expected they would stay dark for the rest of the year. And yet, out of the darkness, local artists began producing hundreds of online productions, play readings, cabarets and concerts, audio-casts, podcasts, interviews and education programs to stay connected to their art and their audiences. For this year’s look back at the 2020 year in theater, I found it impossible to choose a top 10, since there’s no way to...