Cygnet Theatre - Rolando

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6663 El Cajon Blvd. Suite N, San Diego, CA 92115

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando

Address:: 6663 El Cajon Blvd. Suite N, San Diego, CA 92115
Capacity:: 146
Phone:: 619-337-1525 x 3 box office*
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Rating:: Events at this venue were rated 3.1 by 821 members who went.

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Political Drama Dying City from Cygnet Theatre Company

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Wednesday, Oct. 8 @ 7:30pm
Thursday, Oct. 9 @ 8:00pm
and 16 more dates.
Full Price: $30.00 - $34.00 Our Price: $15.00 - $17.00*
Rated:

Dying City tells the story of a woman a year after her husband's death in Iraq, forced to confront his identical twin brother who arrives at her apartment unannounced. Christopher Shinn's play is a remarkable tale of loss and how two very different people handle their grief.

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Past Events

Push Up, A Corporate Workplace Comedy at Cygnet Theatre

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Monday, Aug. 18 2008 @ 7:00pm
Tuesday, Aug. 19 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 Our Price: $7.50*
Rated:

Set in the frightening familiar world of corporate game-playing (think "The Office" meets Neil LaBute), this black comedy finds everyone fighting for access to the 16th floor. Who gets the Delhi job? Who rests their feet on the executive desk? Who finds passion in an unauthorized office during the corporate party?

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The Receptionist: Dark Office Comedy at the Cygnet Theatre

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Jul. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Friday, Jul. 25 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
and 30 more dates.
Full Price: $22.00 - $34.00 Our Price: FREE - $17.00*
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Cygnet Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of Adam Bock's The Receptionist, a quirky comedy with unsettling undertones. Melinda Gilb stars as Beverly, a receptionist at a busy Northeastern office whose routine is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of the handsome Mr. Dart from the company's central office.

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Human Cloning Thriller A Number from Cygnet Theatre Company

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
and 25 more dates.
Full Price: $22.00 - $31.00 Our Price: FREE - $15.50*
Rated:

Human cloning is the subject of this beguiling psychological thriller by Caryl Churchill that blends topical scientific speculation with a stunning portrait of the relationship between fathers and their sons. The Daily Telegraph calls it "moving, thought-provoking and dramatically thrilling." This production marks the San Diego premiere.

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Slice-of-Life Comedy Hysterical Blindness from Backyard Productions

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
and 18 more dates.
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00 Our Price: $7.50 - $12.50*
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Hysterical Blindness in an intimate, character-driven drama that follows three working-class women — two best friends in their late 20s, and one older woman who's the mother of one of the two friends — as they attempt to build relationships and find meaning in their lives within the cultural boundaries of 1980s Bayonne, New Jersey.

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Fences: Cygnet Theatre Company Presents August Wilson's Classic

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Jan. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Jan. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
and 30 more dates.
Full Price: $22.00 - $31.00 Our Price: FREE - $15.50*
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Cygnet Theatre Company, in conjunction with the San Diego Black Ensemble Theatre, presents August Wilson's Fences. Following a successful staged reading of the play, the theatre now presents it as a fully mounted production with much of the same cast. It's the story of aging, embittered garbage man Troy Maxson, who sees the world as composed mostly of fences which enclose him.

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St. Nicholas, A Tale of Obsession at Cygnet Theatre

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Monday, Oct. 15 2007 @ 8:00pm
Tuesday, Oct. 16 2007 @ 8:00pm
and 14 more dates.
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated:

Award-winning San Diego actor Ron Choularton appears in this haunted and fascinating one-man show that the Daily Telegraph calls "a compelling and original piece of drama." An aging, jaded theatre critic recounts his obsession with a young actress, and how that obsession leads to a journey into a macabre world of London vampires from which he almost can't escape.

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The Turn of the Screw, A Stage Adaptation of Henry James's Novel

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 4 2007 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Friday, Oct. 5 2007 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
and 26 more dates.
Full Price: $22.00 - $31.00 Our Price: FREE - $15.50*
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Based on the provocative tale of suspense, horror and repression, this adaptation gives the famous story yet another turn of its own. A young governess journeys to care for two recently orphaned children who are haunted by their former governess and the sadistic valet. The young heroine is left to wonder: Are the ghosts real, or are they the products of her fevered imagination?

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Comedic Thriller Communicating Doors at Cygnet Theatre

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Aug. 16 2007 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Friday, Aug. 17 2007 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
and 28 more dates.
Full Price: $22.00 - $31.00 Our Price: FREE - $15.50*
Rated:

Communicating Doors is an intricate time-travel comic thriller about a London s*x specialist from the future who stumbles onto a murder plot that sends her—via a unique set of doors—traveling back in time to save herself and possibly alter the future. The New York Post said: "This is a show to see."

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Laws of Attraction in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at Cygnet Theatre

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Jun. 21 2007 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Jun. 22 2007 @ 8:00pm
and 26 more dates.
Full Price: $22.00 - $31.00 Our Price: FREE - $15.50*
Rated:

This elegant, time-jumping play harnesses the power of the law of attraction that Newton left out: s*x. Merging science with human concerns and ideals, Tom Stoppard's masterpiece is part detective story, part love story and part farce, with mathematics, literature, gardening and chaos theory thrown into the mix.

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Eugene O'Neill's Family Drama Desire Under the Elms

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Sunday, Apr. 29 2007 @ 2:00pm
Sunday, Apr. 29 2007 @ 7:00pm
and 25 more dates.
Full Price: $25.00 - $29.00 Our Price: $12.50 - $14.50*
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When Ephraim Cabot brings his young bride Abbie home to their remote New England farm, he little foresees the turmoil that her arrival will bring his family. Ephraim's youngest son at first loathes the newcomer, but when hatred gives way to lust, the resulting conflict threatens to rock the peaceful farm to its core.

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Hilarious Farce The Matchmaker at the Cygnet Theatre

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Sunday, Mar. 4 2007 @ 2:00pm
Sunday, Mar. 4 2007 @ 7:00pm
and 30 more dates.
Full Price: $25.00 - $29.00 Our Price: $12.50 - $14.50*
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Yonkers merchant and skinflint Horace Vandergelder gets more than he bargains for when he employs the services of a matchmaker, Mrs. Dolly Levi. Mistaken identities, near misses and love flow through this hilarious farce like a freshly popped bottle of vintage champagne.

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Pulitzer Prize Finalist Yellowman at Cygnet Theatre

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Sunday, Jan. 14 2007 @ 2:00pm
Sunday, Jan. 14 2007 @ 7:00pm
and 20 more dates.
Full Price: $25.00 - $29.00 Our Price: $12.50 - $14.50*
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Yellowman, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is a multi-character memory play about an African-American woman who dreams of life beyond the confines of her small-town Southern upbringing—and the light-skinned man whose fate is tragically intertwined with hers. Both a celebration of young love and a study of domestic violence, the play is heartwarming yet ultimately heartbreaking.

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It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play Performed Before A Studio Audience

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Nov. 30 2006 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Friday, Dec. 1 2006 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
and 53 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00 - $31.00 Our Price: $10.00 - $15.50*
Rated:

It's 1947, and the classic It's A Wonderful Life is being performed as a live radio show before a studio audience. Inspired by the beloved American film, the show features a versatile cast of actors, live sound effects, and fun holiday music! The inspiring story was a huge hit for the theater last year, so they're bringing it back!

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Bug - The Award-Winning, "Obscenely Exciting" New Play

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 12 2006 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, Oct. 15 2006 @ 2:00pm
and 26 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00 - $29.00 Our Price: $10.00 - $14.50*
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Cygnet Theatre Company presents the Obie Award-winning Off-Broadway hit Bug, an exploration of fear and paranoia in a sci-fi age of high-tech surveillance, identity theft and the ultimate in government intrusion. Harrowing and intensely funny, Bug is a powerful new thriller that the New York Times called "the theatre season's wildest ride."

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Tony Award-Winning Play Copenhagen from Cygnet Theatre Company

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Aug. 24 2006 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Aug. 25 2006 @ 8:00pm
and 21 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00 - $29.00 Our Price: $10.00 - $14.50*
Rated:

This fascinating story is based on the uncertainties surrounding the 1941 meeting between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in German-occupied Copenhagen, during the race to develop the first atomic bomb. Starring award-winning actors Rosina Reynolds, Joshua Everett Johnson and Jim Chovick, Copenhagen was the winner of the 2000 Tony Award for Best Play.

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David McBean's Hilarious One-Man Show Fully Committed

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Jun. 29 2006 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Jun. 30 2006 @ 8:00pm
and 32 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00 - $29.00 Our Price: $10.00 - $14.50*
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David McBean makes a return to San Diego to revive his hilarious award-winning performance in this one-man tour-de-force. McBean plays an out-of-work actor who single-handedly mans the reservation desk for Manhattan's number-one restaurant — along with the 40 other characters who will stop at nothing in their zeal to land a prime reservation or the right table.

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Atwater: Fixin' to Die at Cygnet Theatre Company

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, May. 18 2006 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 19 2006 @ 8:00pm
and 22 more dates.
Full Price: $18.00 - $26.00 Our Price: $9.00 - $13.00*
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The Cygnet Theatre Company presents Atwater: Fixin' to Die. This acclaimed one man portrait explores the extraordinary stratagems, cynicism and passion brought to politics by Lee Atwater, self-styled master of negative campaigning and the fun-lovin' Dixie dude equally at home in the world of delta blues and "dirty tricks" political strategies. Atwater is played by Jeffrey Jones who recently was honored with a San Diego Critic's Circle award for Outstanding Performance in Cygnet's Burn This.

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My Fair Lady - 50th Anniversary Production from Cygnet Theatre

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Mar. 2 2006 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Mar. 3 2006 @ 8:00pm
and 43 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00 - $29.00 Our Price: $10.00 - $14.50*
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Based on George Bernard Shaw's celebrated romantic play, Pygmalion, Lerner and Loewe's musical My Fair Lady is still considered to be in a class by itself. Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the loveliest musical play of our times with this intimate chamber production, and rediscover the magic of the flower girl transformed into a lady.

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Black Comedy Biedermann and the Firebugs at Cygnet Theatre

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Jan. 12 2006 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Jan. 13 2006 @ 8:00pm
and 23 more dates.
Full Price: $18.00 - $26.00 Our Price: $9.00 - $13.00*
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Herr Biedermann discovers that the two men who have charmed their way into his home are the same arsonists who have already burned down much of the town. Biedermann and the Firebugs is either a hilarious, slapstick farce or a satirical attack against complacency, depending on your mood. Either way, it's a great black comedy.

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Santaland Diaries, David Sedaris's Holiday Play for Adults

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Monday, Dec. 5 2005 @ 8:00pm
Tuesday, Dec. 6 2005 @ 8:00pm
and 11 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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Cygnet Theatre presents acclaimed humorist David Sedaris's Santaland Diaries, a holiday play about an out of work slacker who takes a job as a Macy's elf. Features adult themes, adult language, and lots of wicked, naughty and wonderful fun!

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Lillian Hellman's Great American Play The Little Foxes

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Nov. 17 2005 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Nov. 18 2005 @ 8:00pm
and 20 more dates.
Full Price: $18.00 - $26.00 Our Price: $9.00 - $13.00*
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Cygnet Theatre Company presents The Little Foxes from the legendary Lillian Hellman, one of the stage's greatest playwrights. The prosperous, despotic Hubbard family - Ben, possessive and scheming; Oscar, cruel and arrogant; Regina, wickedly clever - each try to outwit and outmaneuver the other in the South at turn of the century 1900 in this truly great American play.

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Curse of the Starving Class by Sam Shepard

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 6 2005 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Oct. 7 2005 @ 8:00pm
and 22 more dates.
Full Price: $18.00 - $26.00 Our Price: $9.00 - $13.00*
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Cygnet Theatre presents Curse of the Starving Class, a tragic comedy by one of America's greatest living playwrights, Sam Shepard. The play takes place in a farmhouse somewhere in the American west, inhabited by a mysterious refrigerator, a redemptive kitchen table and the members of the Tate family, who each have plans to sell the house and pursue the elusive "American dream."

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Tom Stoppard's Comedy The Invention of Love at Cygnet Theatre

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Aug. 18 2005 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Aug. 19 2005 @ 8:00pm
and 27 more dates.
Full Price: $18.00 - $26.00 Our Price: FREE - $13.00*
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The Cygnet Theatre presents The Invention of Love from acclaimed English playwright Tom Stoppard. This story, featuring real-life characters like A.E. Housman and Oscar Wilde, is an exquisite comedy of Victorian values.

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Stephen Sondheim's Musical Assassins - Staged Reading/Singing

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Monday, Jun. 20 2005 @ 8:00pm
Tuesday, Jun. 21 2005 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50*
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The show that gives new meaning to the phrase "killer musical" comes to Cygnet for a benefit performance of a staged reading/singing. Having recently played to sold-out audiences on Broadway, Stephen Sondheim's Assassins is the acclaimed writer's most controversial work, a groundbreaking, darkly comic musical.

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Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Live on Stage

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Jun. 9 2005 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Jun. 10 2005 @ 8:00pm
and 21 more dates.
Full Price: $18.00 - $26.00 Our Price: $9.00 - $13.00*
Rated:

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, from Tennessee Williams, one of the true greats of American theatre, is one of the finest pieces of writing for the stage ever produced. Although well-known from the film version starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, it must be seen live on stage to experience the real power of this brilliant work.

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Pageant: The Musical Comedy Beauty Contest

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Mar. 3 2005 @ 8:00pm (Previews)
Friday, Mar. 4 2005 @ 8:00pm (Previews)
and 50 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00 - $29.00 Our Price: FREE - $14.50*
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Help select the winners at a musical comedy beauty contest — where all the contestants are men! The "screamingly funny" Pageant at the Cygnet Theatre.

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Lanford Wilson's Burn This at Cygnet Theatre

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Jan. 13 2005 @ 8:00pm (Previews)
Friday, Jan. 14 2005 @ 8:00pm (Previews)
and 20 more dates.
Full Price: $18.00 - $26.00 Our Price: $9.00 - $13.00*
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Cygnet Theatre begins the new year with its revival of acclaimed American playwright Lanford Wilson's Burn This, an intense and steamy comed/drama with a serious side.

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Comedy The Book of Liz at the Cygnet Theatre

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Nov. 18 2004 @ 8:00pm (Previews)
Friday, Nov. 19 2004 @ 8:00pm (Previews)
and 22 more dates.
Full Price: $18.00 - $26.00 Our Price: $9.00 - $13.00*
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The Cygnet Theatre presents the Southern California premiere of David & Amy Sedaris' The Book of Liz, the hilarious story of Sister Elizabeth Donderstock who decides to venture out into the real world after a lifetime spent making cheeseballs (traditional and smokey) to support her cloistered religious sect.

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Jeff Daniels' Escanaba in da Moonlight at Cygnet Theatre

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 21 2004 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Oct. 22 2004 @ 8:00pm
and 11 more dates.
Full Price: $22.00 - $26.00 Our Price: $11.00 - $13.00*
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Escanaba in Da Moonlight, written by actor Jeff Daniels (Dumb and Dumber, The Purple Rose of Cairo), is a hilariously twisted comedy about five Yoopers - residents of Michigan's Upper Peninsula - and their escapades at a ramshackle deer camp on the eve of the Opening Day hunting season. Learn More

Bed and Sofa, a Silent Movie Opera, at the Cygnet Theatre

Cygnet Theatre - Rolando (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, Jul. 8 2004 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Jul. 9 2004 @ 8:00pm
and 8 more dates.
Full Price: $26.00 - $28.00 Our Price: $13.00 - $14.00*
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The Cygnet Theatre presents Bed and Sofa, a three person musical comedy/opera adapted from the 1926 Russian silent cult film by Abram Room, an "inventive little gem of a show!" Learn More

Venue Description

A wonderful, intimate, and newly renovated 146 seat theatre with beautifully restored vintage theatre seats and upgraded lighting and sound equipment. Every seat has a great view.

The Cygnet Theatre Company is run by award winning actor and director Sean Murray. Previous to the Cygnet, Murray ran the North Coast Repertory Theatre in Solana Beach.

Map/Directions

The Cygnet is located in the neighborhood of San Diego State and is only 10 minutes from downtown San Diego.

From I-8 exit at College Ave and head south. Make a left on El Cajon Boulevard. Cygnet Theatre will be on your right side just prior to Montezuma Rd. Plenty of free parking.

For more directions visit:
www.cygnettheatre.com/directions.php

Handicap Info

Wheelchair Accessible, please let us know if you require ADA seating when you purchase your ticket.

Handicap seating is regularly available.

Please contact us after buying tickets by replying to your confirmation email to make arrangements.