Mourning the Loss of John Joseph “Jack” Cassidy
San Diego Playwrights
by sandiegoplaywrights
1y ago
San Diego Playwrights mourns the loss of our dear friend and colleague, known to most as California Jack Cassidy. He was a core volunteer who helped design our website, edited and updated our dramaturgs/editors page and published interviews with them, and served as the charismatic host of WordPlay Tuesdays at Diversionary Theatre. Beyond those contributions, he was a brilliant writer who made kindness, gratitude, and enjoying each day his life’s practice. We are so lucky to have been in his world. He was magic. Jack was also an actor, dancer, and musician. Here he is running with his eyes c ..read more
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Don’t miss the next Local Flavor Play Reading set for June 12th!
San Diego Playwrights
by sandiegoplaywrights
1y ago
San Diego Playwrights in conjunction with Scripps Ranch Theatre present a Local Flavor Play Reading A new play by Grant Gelvin Monday, June 12, 2023 at 7:30pm Scripps Ranch Theatre on the Alliant University Campus 9783 Avenue of Nations, San Diego Featuring: April Boatman, Amy Dell, Richard Hannasch and Kat Vaughan An artist sets out to lure and humiliate a predatory painter. But what she lands is an old man who just desperately wants to be friends with her and her wife.  If persistence is the answer, he’s going to find a way. Suggested Donation: $10 at the door (cash only) A talk-back wi ..read more
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Save the Date for the next Local Flavor Play Reading set for February 13!
San Diego Playwrights
by sandiegoplaywrights
1y ago
San Diego Playwrights in conjunction with Scripps Ranch Theatre present a Local Flavor Play Reading Directed by Anthony Methvin Featuring: Brian Mackey, Rachael VanWormer, Tom Zohar Monday, February 13, 2023 at 7:30pm SCRIPPS RANCH THEATRE on the Alliant University Campus 9783 Avenue of Nations, San Diego In Rome of 273 AD, a priest imprisoned for illegally performing marriage ceremonies is given two options: renounce his Christian faith or die. As he awaits his fate, he and the jailer’s daughter form an unlikely friendship built on social and religious debate, passionate disagreement, and a d ..read more
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News from John Molina
San Diego Playwrights
by sandiegoplaywrights
2y ago
My 10-minute play, “Always in Threes,” which was produced by the Three Roses Players at the Crown Theater in North Hollywood in 2011, received a staged reading at the Center for the Arts in Bonita Springs, FL on October 7, as part of their seasonal Reading Series. Staged Reading Series Congratulations, John ..read more
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Midsummer Gathering
San Diego Playwrights
by sandiegoplaywrights
2y ago
Please join Dramatists Guild San Diego Co-Ambassadors Aleta Barthell and Thelma Virata de Castro for a Midsummer Gathering in partnership with San Diego Writers, Ink on July 31 at 4pm. This is an informal gathering for San Diego playwrights to connect, explore a short writing prompt together, and celebrate summer in San Diego! Open to San Diego playwrights at any level and Dramatists Guild members. For more information and to register, click here ..read more
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BHANGIN’ IT at La Jolla Playhouse
San Diego Playwrights
by sandiegoplaywrights
2y ago
San Diego Playwrights is happy to partner with La Jolla Playhouse to offer discount tickets to BHANGIN’ IT. (Fun Fact: One of the Book writers, Mike Lew, grew up in San Diego!) Bhangin’ It: A Bangin’ New Musical WORLD-PREMIERE MUSICAL Find your beat. Find your team. Find yourself. While East Lansing University senior Mary Darshini Clarke has spent her entire life trying to figure out where she fits in, she has always found community dancing on the school’s prestigious bhangra team. But when she becomes the self-appointed captain of a new team of enthusiastic novices more interested in ma ..read more
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New Date Announced! – Local Flavor Play Reading of Steven Oberman’s new play, “Herzl’s Dream”
San Diego Playwrights
by sandiegoplaywrights
2y ago
Play Reading has been rescheduled for Tuesday, February 8 at 7:30pm San Diego Playwrights in conjunction with Scripps Ranch Theatre present a Local Flavor Play Reading DIRECTED BY CHARLES PETERS Featuring Sean Paul Boyd, Wendy Maples and Katie Oberman Tuesday, February 8 at 7:30pm SCRIPPS RANCH THEATRE on the Alliant University Campus 9783 Avenue of Nations, San Diego In Europe of the 1890’s, a time of widespread anti-Semitism, the renowned Theodor Herzl is approached by a strange woman. He is the leader of the modern Zionist movement, frustrated with his attempts to establish a Jewish homela ..read more
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POSTPONED 2020: Local Flavor Play Reading of Nuptial Stagecraft by California Jack Cassidy
San Diego Playwrights
by sandiegoplaywrights
2y ago
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE ..read more
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2019 Local Flavor Play Reading of Switching Tracks by Matt Thompson
San Diego Playwrights
by sandiegoplaywrights
2y ago
San Diego Playwrights, in conjunction with Scripps Ranch Theatre, presents the Local Flavor Play Reading series featuring “Switching Tracks” by Matthew Salazar-Thompson, on Sunday, December 1 at 7:00pm. Suggested donation $10 at the door. A divorced couple, Michael and Rebecca, haven’t seen each other in over ten years. After a chance encounter at Grand Central Station, both of them find new connections with each other as they comb through the bevy of old emotions on their path moving forward. For more information contact Steven Oberman stevenoberman23@gmail.com ..read more
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