Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre
Between Monroe and Madison 4545 Park Bl. San Diego CA 92116- Phone:
- 619-220-0097
- Website:
- http://www.diversionary.org
- Capacity:
- 104
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Current Events on Goldstar
Currently, there are no events available at this venue through Goldstar.
Past Events on Goldstar
Identity, Passion Explored Over Tumultuous Decades in The Pride
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $26.50 - $39.50
- Our Price:
- $13.25 - $19.75
Oliver, Philip and Sylvia are caught up in a love triangle that echoes through decades in the drama The Pride. The play explores their complex, tumultuous relationship as it shifts from the repression of... Learn More.
Next Fall: A Smart Play About Faith, Devotion and Love
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $31.00
- Our Price:
- $15.50
This witty play follows the five-year relationship between two gay men: Luke, who is devoutly religious, and Adam, an atheist. Adam remains stubbornly unrepentant and unbelieving while Luke struggles with... Learn More.
Facts of Life: The Lost Episode: All-Male Cast Recreates '80s Sitcom
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $29.00
- Our Price:
- $14.50
From the producers of the award-winning Mommie Queerest comes The Facts of Life: The Lost Episode. This musical comedy is an adults-only send-up of the popular '80s sitcom, featuring an all-male cast... Learn More.
Learn to Be Latina: Outrageous Pop Culture Satire
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $31.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $15.50
Hanan (Tamara Dhia) is a promising young pop singer with a record deal ready to go ... until the label learns she's Lebanese. But since she looks Latina, why not repackage her as the next J. Lo? This... Learn More.
Ghostly Vaudeville Parody Dead From New York: It's Pepper & Sam!
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $29.00
- Our Price:
- $14.50
Diversionary Theatre launches its Cabaret Series with the ghostly vaudeville parody Dead From New York: It's Pepper & Sam! The creation of two New York-based writer-performers, this hilarious show centers on... Learn More.
Edward II: Marlowe's Classic History Play at Diversionary
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $31.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $15.50
Richard Baird returns to San Diego to direct Edward II, the largest production ever on stage at Diversionary, with 14 actors playing numerous roles in this intense account of the struggle between passion and... Learn More.
Chico's Angels Star in Love Boat Chicas with Jai Rodriguez
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00
Jai Rodriguez (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy) joins Chico's Angels, the trio of police academy dropouts fighting crime with glamour, attitude and high heels for the latest episode of their outrageous live... Learn More.
Poster Boys: Comedy Based on Real Life Controversial Ad Campaign
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $31.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $15.50
A fast-talking ad executive is thrown for a loop when one of the gay poster boys of a bank's new diversity campaign is her ex-fiance. The comedy by Michele Rimi is based on an actual event in Canada when the... Learn More.
InnerMission Productions Presents the San Diego Premiere of Swimming in the Shallows
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Swimming in the Shallows is a comedy about a group of friends, but no one would ever mistake it for a TV sitcom once the absurdity ramps up. There's man-shark love, a lesbian couple attempting to plan a... Learn More.
Diversionary Theatre Tells the Story of Doctor Tom Dooley With Their Production of Dooley
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $31.00
- Our Price:
- $15.50
Based on historic fact, Dooley tells the remarkable story of humanitarian Tom Dooley, whose career was derailed by the threat of exposing his sexuality long before "Don't Ask Don't Tell." The play follows... Learn More.
And Then I Wrote a Song About It: One-Man Musical at Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $33.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $16.50
In ...And Then I Wrote a Song About It, Randall is a "perspiring" actor-singer-songwriter-dancer and secretary searching for love and fame in the disco 1980s. Nick Cearley, who originated the role at the... Learn More.
Romantic Comedy Fair Use from Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $31.00
- Our Price:
- $15.50
Diversionary Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of Sarah Gubbins' smart romantic comedy Fair Use. While attorneys at a Chicago law firm take on a high-profile plagiarism case, their after-hours... Learn More.
The Maiden's Prayer: Drama with Dark Comedy from Triad Productions
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
Triad Productions presents the San Diego premiere of The Maiden's Prayer, a drama with dark comedy, written by two-time Drama Desk nominee Nicky Silver (Pterodactyls, Raised in Captivity). It's the story of... Learn More.
Gay St. Nick Is Outed in Mockumentary Play Santa Claus Is Coming Out
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $45.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $22.50
Writer/performer Jeffrey Solomon's one-man show investigates what happens when the world discovers that Santa Claus has cut a promotional deal with Coca-Cola that forces him to stay in the closet. A little... Learn More.
Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins, a Coming-of-Age Story from Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $31.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $15.50
It's 1977, and 15-year-old Horace Poore is struggling with his sexual awakening surrounded by his conventional suburban family and dreaming of Olympic swimmer Mark Spitz, while orange-juice huckster / anti-... Learn More.
World Premiere Musical Mozu Immerses Audiences into the World of Japanese Snow Monkeys
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00 - $30.00
- Our Price:
- $9.00 - $15.00
Set in the Shiga Heights of Japan, Mozu is a new musical based on the lives of actual Japanese macaques, better known as snow monkeys. Born with deformities, Mozu seeks an alliance with the humans to survive... Learn More.
[title of show], a Musical About Musicals at Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $33.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $16.50
Diversionary Theatre presents, as an official event of San Diego LGBT Pride, the musical about writing a musical, [title of show]. It's a love letter to musical theatre written about two struggling writers ... Learn More.
Moscow, a Musical Play Based on Chekhov's The Three Sisters at Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $35.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $17.50
Trapped in limbo, three gay men stage a musical production of Chekhov's The Three Sisters. A compelling fusion of music, emotion, melancholy and lust, Moscow features Angelo D'Agostino, Kevin Koppman-Gue and... Learn More.
Speech and Debate: A Play About Sex, Secrets, and Blackmail at Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $29.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $14.50
Sex. Secrets. Performance-art blogs and blackmail. A typical day when for a teenager in Salem, Oregon. Three teenage misfits discover they are linked by a sex scandal that's rocked their town. When one of... Learn More.
The Marriage Bed, a Look at Same Sex Marriage at Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $29.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $14.50
The Marriage Bed, a play by Nona Shepphard about same-sex marriage, was a hit in London, Hong Kong, and New York. Now, it makes its West Coast debut. Originally written in response to the British government'... Learn More.
The New Century, Four One-Acts Filled with Gay and Jewish Humor
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $29.00 - $33.00
- Our Price:
- $14.50 - $16.50
A Jewish matron, a flamboyant aging homosexual and a Midwestern craftswoman collide in this outrageous collection of one-act comedies. Making its West Coast premiere at Diversionary Theatre, Paul Rudnick's ... Learn More.
Bent, a Groundbreaking Drama About the Nazi Persecution of Gays
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $33.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $16.50
Diversionary Theatre and ion theatre company celebrate the 30th anniversary of Martin Sherman's groundbreaking play with this new production of Bent, a riveting and tragic story of love, dignity and survival... Learn More.
Side Man: Tony Award-Winning Drama at Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00 - $33.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50 - $16.50
Bang! Productions presents Side Man. Warren Leight's poignant drama spans thirty years in the life of Clifford, a young man coping with the legacy of his father, a journeyman jazz trumpeter, and his... Learn More.
Twist, a New Musical Based on Oliver Twist, at Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $35.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $17.50
Dickens' famous tale re-imagines Oliver as an attractive young man searching for love in this gender-bending dark comedy with Victorian erotica. By turns outrageous and provocative, this unique retelling... Learn More.
The Butcher of Baraboo: Dark Comedy's West Coast Debut
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $25.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50 - $12.50
Moxie Theatre presents Marisa Wegrzyn's The Butcher of Baraboo. It's the darkly comic tale of a Wisconsin butcher, her mysteriously vanished husband, her troubled pharmacist daughter, and the police oficer... Learn More.
The Little Dog Laughed, a Comedy About Hollywood Celebrity Culture
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $31.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $15.50
Diversionary Theatre's The Little Dog Laughed examines the scandalous world of Hollywood celebrities. This fast-paced farce centers on characters like a spin-doctor agent, a rising movie star, a sexy "rent-... Learn More.
A Mormon Couple Copes with Gay Son's Suicide in Drama Facing East
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $29.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $14.50
A Mormon couple confronts the limits of their spiritual teachings upon the suicide of their gay son in this drama about faith, family, and loss. In Facing East, Ruth and Alex McCormick are stuck between the... Learn More.
Provocative Black Comedy The Sugar Syndrome at Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $10.00 - $25.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00 - $12.50
The accomplished debut from then-22-year-old writer Lucy Prebble (Secret Diary of a Call Girl), The Sugar Syndrome shocked London audiences upon its premiere with subject matter that includes pedophilia,... Learn More.
A Black Gay Man Brings Home a White Boyfriend in Comedy As Much As You Can
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $31.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $15.50
A black man surprises his family at his brother's wedding when he brings along his white, Swedish boyfriend in this comedic play by Paul Oakley Stovall. Through card games, language lessons and literature,... Learn More.
Scrooge in Rouge - A Quick-Change, Cross-Dressing Version of Dickens
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $31.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $15.50
Diversionary Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of the new holiday show Scrooge in Rouge. This British Music Hall Christmas Carol, a quick-change, cross-dressing version of the Dickens classic, is set... Learn More.
Campy Musical Chico's Angels #3: Chicas in Chains at Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $32.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00
Charlie's Angels spoof Chicas in Chains, deemed "hilarious" by LA Weekly, is back with a two-act musical, Chico's Angels #3: Chicas in Chains. Hookers are turning up dead, and Chita Parol, Frieda Laye and... Learn More.
Historical Drama Bleeding Kansas at the Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $25.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50 - $12.50
In 1850, the new Kansas territory was a scene of division and bloodshed as anti-slavery and pro-slavery factions battled to determine whether Kansas would be a free or slave state when admitted into the... Learn More.
No Exit, Jean Paul Sartre's Classic Fantasy, from Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $33.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $16.50
Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit is the noted existentialist philosopher's seminal 1944 play, in which three strangers mercilessly exploit one another's fears and weaknesses in a windowless room, their conflict... Learn More.
Yank! -- An Old-Fashioned Musical Gay Love Story Set in WWII
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $31.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $15.50
Yank! is a love song to Hollywood's "it takes one of every kind" platoon flicks and to 1940s Broadway. This new Golden Age-style musical tells the story of a war reporter named Stu and an army private named... Learn More.
Terrence McNally's Acclaimed Play Corpus Christi
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $31.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $15.50
Diversionary Theatre will present the 1998 Terrence McNally play Corpus Christi as the sixth and final show of its season. Named one of the best plays of the year by Time Magazine in 1998, this vivid and... Learn More.
Bluebonnet Court: Witty Dramedy at Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $29.00 - $31.00
- Our Price:
- $14.50 - $15.50
Set in 1944, against the backdrop of World War II and the waning days of Hollywood's glamour era, Bluebonnet Court is a play about sex, civil rights and finding family in the most unusual places. The story... Learn More.
Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy from Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $35.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $17.50
A comedy about the importance of family and love, Torch Song Trilogy was one of the first Broadway shows to have a major gay theme in its plot. However, the universal themes of finding self-respect, love and... Learn More.
The Busy World is Hushed: Drama About Religion and Homosexuality at Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $31.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $15.50
Diversionary Theatre presents Keith Bunin's The Busy World is Hushed, the story of a widowed Bible scholar's struggle to find common ground with her son. A complex and detailed character study, Theatremania.... Learn More.
Diversionary Theatre Presents The Break Up Notebook: The Lesbian Musical
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $31.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $15.50
The Diversionary Theatre is proud to present The Break Up Notebook: The Lesbian Musical. Based on the critically-acclaimed play of the same name by Patricia Cotter, this show follows the romantic... Learn More.
Witty Literary Comedy Bunbury: A Serious Play for Trivial People
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $27.00
- Our Price:
- $13.50
When Bunbury learns he's only a fictitious character who never appears in The Importance of Being Earnest, he uses his anonymity to infiltrate and alter classic literature, starting by accidentally giving ... Learn More.
Witty Bunbury Tells Story of Oscar Wilde Character Come To Life
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $27.00 - $29.00
- Our Price:
- $13.50 - $14.50
When Bunbury discovers he's a minor offstage character in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, he sets out to make a name for himself by secretly altering other plays, ranging from Romeo and Juliet... Learn More.
Storytelling, Music and Puppetry: The Long Christmas Ride Home
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $27.00 - $29.00
- Our Price:
- $13.50 - $14.50
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel combines exquisite storytelling, music and puppetry to create a mesmerizing portrait of the delicate and often painful bonds of family. One snowy Christmas Eve... Learn More.
Happy Endings are Extra, a Startling New Play
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $27.00
- Our Price:
- $13.50
Diversionary Theatre presents the United States premiere of Happy Endings Are Extra, a startling new play by Ashraf Johaardien. It is a lyrical and sensual exploration of sexual identity, set against the... Learn More.
It's a Fabulous Life - A Way Gay Holiday Musical
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $29.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $14.50
Diversionary Theatre presents It's a Fabulous Life, a new holiday classic musical that takes the premise of It's a Wonderful Life and works a little Diversionary magic on it. A young gay man wishes he hadn't... Learn More.
Gaytino! at Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $29.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $14.50
A father/son relationship and a treasured boyhood friendship drive this 75-minute autobiographical play through decades of Chicano history and the gay experience. Dan Guerrero's one-man show traces his... Learn More.
When Pigs Fly, the Side-Splitting Musical Extravaganza
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $31.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $15.50
Diversionary Theatre presents When Pigs Fly, the side-splitting musical extravaganza! When Pigs Fly is a fun-filled evening of great music, uproarious laughter and high camp. Learn More.
Fall: A Comedy About Swing Dance Camp
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
Moxie Theatre presents Fall, the story of a smart, rebellious 14-year-old who can't believe her parents are making her go to Swing Dance Camp. As her parents try to swing some romance back into their... Learn More.
Musical Comedy Pulp!: Homage to 1950s Pulp Fiction at Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $27.00
- Our Price:
- $13.50
MOXIE Theatre and Diversionary Theatre present Pulp!, an irreverent comedy with music that serves as homage to the sultry, jazzy world of 1950's pulp fiction. In Pulp!, rough-edged Terry Logan finds herself... Learn More.
Limonade Tous les Jours at Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $25.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50 - $12.50
Limonade Tous les Jours offers a glimpse into an older man/younger woman relationship that is at once romantic and exquisitely painful. Playwright Charles L. Mee reminds us of the irrationality of attraction... Learn More.
Love Story Beautiful Thing at Diversionary Theatre
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Full Price:
- $26.00
- Our Price:
- $13.00
Beautiful Thing is a tender love story set in a South-East London housing project. Jamie lives next door to Ste, a more popular athletic lad who is frequently beaten by his father and older brother. Such an... Learn More.
Map and Directions
Diversionary Theatre is located 2 blocks North of El Cajon Blvd. in University Heights. Street parking is available, but allow some extra time to find a space.
For more info visit: http://www.diversionary.org/contact.html
Handicap Information
Handicap seating is regularly available.
Please contact us after buying tickets by replying to your confirmation email to make arrangements.