Diversionary Theatre

The Biden/Harris Administration has proposed a new wave of COVID-19 relief and Congress will soon consider next steps. Please keep your elected officials informed about concerns and losses that are not being addressed and tell them about theatres’ unique capacity to support the U.S. economy, uplift the human spirit, and provide lifelong learning. Send your elected officials a message here: http://ibit.ly/5EIu

We're partnering with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater for our FREE Teen Playwriting lab. Please show them some love by following them on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RattlestickNY Twitter: https://twitter.com/RattlestickNY Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rattlestickny/... Learn more about TPL here: http://www.diversionary.org/TPL

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Meet the three guest elves of VERY SPECIAL DIVERSIONARY PANDEMIC CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR! Bridget Everett, Linda Libby, and Migguel Anggelo join Isaac Oliver and Jenn Harris on our virtual stage this holiday season! Learn more at http://www.diversionary.org/PandemicChristmas or call 619-220-0097

Bridget Everett joins us as one of our very special guest elves for A VERY SPECIAL DIVERSIONARY PANDEMIC CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR. Bridget will join Isaac Oliver and Jenn Harris on our virtual stage this holiday season! Bridget Everett has been called one of the Funniest People in New York by Time Out. Performances stream through December 29th. Get your tickets here: http://www.diversionary.org/pandemicchristmas

Streaming through December 29th, A VERY SPECIAL DIVERSIONARY PANDEMIC CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR! Starring Isaac Oliver and Jenn Harris, with special guests, Migguel Anggelo, Bridget Evererett, and Linda Libby. Learn more: www.diversionary.org/pandemicchristmas http://www.diversionary.org/pandemic

"Artists, as well as artistic institutions and platforms, have been given the sacred task, as Shakespeare’s Hamlet told us in 1601: Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything so o’erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold as ’twere the mirror up to nature. August Wilson, Pittsburgh’s Bard, reiterated this several centuries later in his speech at Princeton University’s McCarter Theatre in 1996: I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal, its power to hold the mirror as ’twere up to nature, its power to uncover the truths we wrestle from uncertain and sometimes unyielding realities. http://bit.ly/3dTzsLN

Tonight, Saturday, December 12 @ 7pm Jenn Harris and Isaac Oliver will star in A VERY SPECIAL DIVERSIONARY PANDEMIC CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR with special guest Migguel Anggelo! Tickets: http://ibit.ly/iMDB

Meet one of our GUEST ELVES for A VERY SPECIAL DIVERSIONARY PANDEMIC CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR! Linda Libby will join Isaac Oliver & Jenn Harris on our virtual stage this holiday season! Learn more at http://ibit.ly/nity #PandemicChristmas

Tonight, We're Spreading Queer Cheer! Join Diversionary Theatre, Isaac Oliver, and Jenn Harris for A VERY SPECIAL DIVERSIONARY PANDEMIC CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR. Tonight's special guest is famed NYC comedien Bridget Everett (Inside Amy Schumer). The show starts at 8pm PST. Get tickets: http://ibit.ly/Lvbq Saturday, December 12 @ 7pm Jenn and Isaac will be joined by the wildly talented New York performing artist Migguel Anggelo!... And a Special Late Night Performance, Saturday, December 12 @ 10pm Jenn and Isaac will be joined by San Diego favorite and luminous Linda Libby!

"As the third oldest LGBT theatre in the country, Diversionary has been providing a safe space for our community to gather and witness stories that reflect and define our collective experience. We want nothing more than to gather with you, our family, to share these stories in person once again. However, it is this central value of offering a safe space that leads our work." Learn More: http://www.diversionary.org/season35/

Learn more at http://www.diversionary.org/season35

Our EAD Matt Morrow shares a little about Josh Irving Gershick’s Dear One: Love & Longing in Mid-Century Queer America. Read the full article in the San Diego Union Tribune: http://t.ly/Xle8 This play will stream free as part of our AmeriQueer audiocast series.

Diversionary’s 35th season will be a mix of online, outdoor, and when we are allowed, in person events that will include entertaining plays, musicals, cabarets, as well as readings, community events, and a plethora of Arts Education Programming. You can learn more by visiting http://www.diversionary.org/season35

On November 6th, Diversionary will be offering a free drop in theatre class for older adults. Join us for Improv Jam! This is a a fun filled workshop of theatre exercises and improv games. We will expand our sense of play, and try what it feels like to be an actor with no script. If you need to laugh, this fun filled afternoon is for you, don’t miss it. To learn more and register, please visit http://www.diversionary.org/silversquad

This Season, Diversionary will be moving from a Subscription Season to a Membership Season. Become a Diversionary Member at just $99, and join our core family sustaining our work all season long. Your membership will give you access to discounts and exciting member benefits all season long! https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/store/33385/pk/115513

Diversionary Theatre Announces New Membership Model for the 2020/21 Season October 3rd, 2020 San Diego, CA For immediate release:...Continue reading

AmeriQueer is offered to our audiences at no cost. October 16 - November 26. http://www.diversionary.org/AmeriQueer

JP Karliak joins us as a performer in Dear ONE: Love & Longing in Mid-Century Queer America, written and directed by Josh Irving Gershick. Listen at no charge! http://www.diversionary.org/ameriqueer Dear ONE illuminates the lives of ordinary queer Americans as recounted through letters, written between 1953 and 1965, to L.A.’s ONE Magazine, the first openly LGBTQ periodical in the United States. Looking for love, friendship, or understanding, they wrote of loneliness and yearning, of joy and fulfillment, and of their daily experiences, hidden from history. This epistolary snapshot of mid-century lives captures the radiant diversity of the American queer community as it was discovering itself, and the dawning of a national movement.

Meet the Cast of AmeriQueer! Left to Right: Diana Burbano, Nicky Endres, Monique Gaffney, JP Karliak, George Takei. Dear ONE: Love & Longing in Mid-Century Queer America will stream Friday, October 16th through Thursday, October 29th, 2020. Listen free at http://www.diversionary.org/ameriqueer

Meet the ensemble for the audiocast of "Dear ONE: Love & Longing in Mid-Century Queer America" by @JoshGershick. Listen Now: http://www.diversionary.org/ameriqueer/ L-R Diana Burbano, @MxNickyE, Monique Gaffney, @jpkarliak, @GeorgeTakei... #AmeriQueer #DearOne #DiversionaryTheatre See more

"Our 35th Season is themed Going In, as we will continue to ask for the privilege of entering your home via online theatrical experiences. We will also, when it is safe to do so, venture into open air and site specific venues to produce short run events throughout San Diego. We will be programming week by week, month by month, and quarter by quarter, to remain nimble and responsive to the needs of our current moment, allowing us to put your safety and the safety of our artists first." Learn More: http://www.diversionary.org/season35/

Diversionary Theatre’s busy calendar includes a virtual visit from @GeorgeTakei http://t.ly/5byd