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A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Now Through August 22, Tuesday - Sunday

La Jolla Playhouse announces its upcoming production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Along with a fantastical environment will be Mark Bennett’s delightful original score, aerialist fairies, and internationally-renowned puppeteer Basil Twist’s unique brand of whimsical puppetry.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be playing in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre July 20 – August 22, at 2910 La Jolla Village Drive La Jolla, CA 92037. Performance times are Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30pm; Thursday through Saturday at 8:00pm; and Sundays at 7:00pm. Matinees are held on Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00pm.

Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin

September 7 – October 17

La Jolla Playhouse is pleased to announce the addition of the new musical Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin. This world premiere production features music and lyrics by Christopher Curtis, book by Christopher Curtis and Thomas Meehan and direction by Michael Unger. Limelight will run September 7 through October 17, in the Mandell Weiss Theatre.

Charlie Chaplin became one of the best-loved and most famous entertainers in the world, from the gritty streets and smoky music halls of London to movie screens across the world. Limelight goes behind the camera to show how a comic genius found soaring success and later fell from grace. A fascinating study in talent and turmoil, boldness and vulnerability, Limelight provides a moving and delightful close-up on the man who changed motion pictures forever.

Tickets call (858) 550-1010 or visit www.lajollaplayhouse.org.

6th Annual Solana Beach Blanket Movie Night at the Cove

August 28, Saturday, 6-10pm

Head to Fletcher Park Cove with neighbors and friends for the 6th Annual Beach Blanket Movie Night. Be sure to pack a picnic, grab a beach chair, and a blanket, and come watch movies under the stars with the Solana Beach Community! Sorry no alcohol, pets, pervs, tobacco, or barbeque grills. Call (858) 720-2453 or visit www.cityofsolanabeach.org.

New Village Arts Theatre

The Seven Year Itch

Now – August 22, Sunday

New Village Arts Theatre announces the opening of its tenth season of producing Ensemble-driven theatre! George Axelrod’s classic American comedy The Seven Year Itch is a comedy about a man in the 1950’s who takes advantage of his family's absence over a steamy Manhattan summer to have a bumbling affair with a sexy neighbor. The play ran for over three years on Broadway and won a Tony Award for its star, Tom Ewell. It was made into a movie in 1955 by Axelrod and Billy Wilder that starred Marilyn Monroe. New Village Arts is proud to present the original Broadway script as Axelrod intended.

The Seven Year Itch is directed by Ensemble Member Amanda Sitton, one of San Diego’s most respected actors and an exciting emerging director. In addition to Daren Scott, the cast features comedian and actress Jacque Wilke as “The Girl,” the role made famous by Marilyn Monroe on film; Melissa Fernandes as Richard’s wife, Helen; and a supporting cast of six featuring Ensemble Member John DeCarlo with Eddie Yaroch, Kelly Iversen, Lisa Dempsey, Frances Regal and Jonah Gercke.

For more information visit www.newvillagearts.org or call (760) 433-3245

New Village Arts Theatre, 2787 State Street, Carlsbad, CA 92008

Disney Live! Presents Mickey’s Magic Show

September 17, Friday

In a captivating combination, Master Magician Mickey Mouse and the always dazzling Minnie, join forces with professional illusionists for a magical production on stage.

Disney Live! Presents Mickey’s Magic Show features grand illusions and favorite Disney characters, including Donald and Goofy; Cinderella and her Fairy Godmother; Alice in Wonderland and the Mad Hatter; and beloved Disney princesses Jasmine, Belle and Snow White. Disney Live! Presents Mickey’s Magic Show visits San Diego on Friday, September 17, for two performances at 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. at the San Diego Sports Arena.

From the breathtaking levitation of Minnie and Jasmine to the transformation of Cinderella’s rags into riches in a split second, Disney Live! Presents Mickey’s Magic Show gives families a whole new way to experience Disney Magic. Adults and children alike will delight in this stunning spectacle that will keep them in awe from opening to curtain call.

Tickets for Disney Live! Presents Mickey’s Magic Show, are available at the San Diego Sports Arena Box Office or www.ticketmaster.com, or visit www.disneylive.com.

Laguna Playhouse Production

Musical Comedy: Life Could Be a Dream

Now- August 29, Sunday

The Laguna Playhouse gets a dream cast for its production of Life Could Be a Dream. The five original Los Angeles cast members have signed on for the eight-week Laguna Playhouse run. The show is a fabulous 50s-era musical about the Crooning Crabcakes, a boy group banned from the Springfield High School prom which made it possible for The Wonderettes to perform. The guys get one more chance at fame and fortune as they prepare to audition for a local radio contest and realize their dreams of making it to the big time. Will these delightfully goofy guys be able to pull it together and win the contest?

The cast of Life Could Be a Dream includes Doug Carpenter (Skip), Ryan Castellino (Wally), Jim Holdridge (Eugene), Daniel Tatar (Denny), and Jessica Keenan Wynn (Lois). Featuring such classic songs as “Stay” (Just a Little Bit Longer),” “Runaround Sue,” “The Great Pretender,” “Tears On My Pillow,” “Unchained Melody,” “Earth Angel,” “Little Darlin’,” and the title song, Life Could Be A Dream is musical trip down memory lane that will leave audiences laughing, singing and cheering.

For more information visit www.LagunaPlayhouse.com or call (949) 497-2787.

The Moulton Theatre is located at 606 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, California.

Moonlight Stage Productions Presents:

Crazy for You

August 11-28

Crazy for You - With music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, this Tony Award-winning musical features unforgettable musical numbers from the Great American Songbook: “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “Embraceable You,” “I Got Rhythm” and many more. The comedy chases a 1930s New York businessman to sleepy Dead Rock, Nevada, where he has been sent to deliver foreclosure papers on an old vaudeville theatre. But he falls in love with the daughter of the theatre’s owner and the romance ensues! This comic roof-raiser is packed with dazzling tap-dancing numbers by gorgeous show girls and miners who trade their gold-mining pans for dance shoes.

Miss Saigon

September 8-25

Miss Saigon – As one of the longest-running Broadway successes, Moonlight is excited to introduce this moving musical to its audiences. Two lovers – an American GI and a Vietnamese girl – are united in love but separated by war in a story set against the backdrop of the Vietnam conflict and the fall of Saigon. “Miss Saigon” is a modern re-telling of “Madame Butterfly” filled with Asian pageantry and a pop rock score by the creators of “Les Miserables,” Schonberg and Boublil. This award-winning musical features “The Heat is on in Saigon,” “Why God Why,” “Sun and Moon” and the heart-wrenching “I’d Give My Life for You.” The show contains mature themes, situations and language.

Moonlight Stage Productions is an award-winning theatre company presenting Broadway musicals each summer in the Moonlight Amphitheatre. During the winter, the Moonlight presents a season of plays and small scale musicals at its AVO Playhouse located in downtown Vista. The company and its artisans have been recognized by the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle and the Patté Awards for Theater Excellence among others. Visit the venue at 1200 Vale Terrace Drive in Vista.

For tickets call (760) 724-2110 or visit online at www.moonlighstage.com.

The 2010 Summer Season is produced by Moonlight Stage Productions, a program of the City of Vista. Additional funding is made possible by the Moonlight Cultural Foundation, a non-profit organization that benefits the performing arts in North County. For more information about the Foundation, call (760) 630-7650.

North Coast Repertory Theatre Presents:

Becky’s New Car

By: Steven Dietz and Directed by David Ellenstein

September 4 – 26

Written by award-winning Steven Dietz, this frothy, poignant and fresh new comedy is a perfect side trip from the daily woes of modern life. Forty-something Becky Foster has a decent job at an auto dealership, a solid husband, and a freeloading psych-major son living in her basement. Her life is pleasant enough, but through a twist of fate Becky gets to test drive an exciting new life.

“Becky's New Car takes the audience on a smart, comic cruise through the perils of middle-aged longing and regret." (Variety.)

North Coast Repertory Theatre 987 Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach, CA 92075

For ticket information or reservations call (858)-481-1055 or visit www.northcoastrep.org.

The Old Globe’s Lowell Davies Festival Theatre Presents:

The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett

Now through September 24

In the years immediately following the American Revolutionary War, The Madness of George III explores the majestic court of England's King George III and his deterioration into madness and his determination to hold on to political power from those around him.

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Now through September 26

Bianca; docile, beautiful and much sought after by the noble men of the town, and Katherine; ill-tempered and shrewish, with an acid tongue that no man can tame, need to be married off. As the oldest, Katherine must marry first – not that she much cares. Bianca’s many suitors can’t afford to wait, so in a wild scheme to find a husband for Katherine, they convince the wily Petruchio to take on the challenge of domesticating the willful “shrew.”

The Madness of George and The Taming of the Shrew are presenting at the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre in Balboa Park. The Box Office window hours are from noon to final curtain Tuesday through Sunday, or you can call (619) 234-5623. Tickets are from $29 to $78. The Lowell Davies Festival Theatreis located in San Diego’s Balboa Park at 1363 Old Globe Way. Free parking is available throughout the park. Valet parking is also available for $10. For parking information visit www.BalboaPark.org.

The Orange County Performing Arts Center Presents In the Heights

August 3 - 15

In the Heights is coming to the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa from August 3–15. In the Heights tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood. It’s a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams and pressures, where the biggest struggles is deciding which traditions you take with you, and which ones you leave behind.

Tickets to see In the Heights start at $20 and are on sale now. They will be available at www.OCPAC.org, at the Center’s Box Office at 600 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa or by calling (714) 556-2787. The 2 p.m. performance on Saturday, August 14, will be sign-language interpreted. In the Heights will be presented at Segerstrom Hall, Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA 92626.

San Diego Film Festival

September 29–October 3, Wednesday through Sunday

The Gaslamp Quarter invites you to join us as we view fresh, innovative films and slip past the velvet rope at five exclusive parties. The San Diego Film Festival (SDFF) is five days of urban edge in a Utopian setting. Help them celebrate their ninth anniversary Sept. 29-Oct. 3 at the Gaslamp Theater, 701 Fifth Avenue.

There's no doubt that SDFF is the hottest ticket in town! The accredited SDFF has earned more than 12 awards, including Best Beach Fest, Best Regional Film Fest, Best Festival, and coveted spot as one of the country’s Top 10 Film Festival Vacations – and it all happens here in the Gaslamp Quarter!

The 2009 SDFF featured more than 75 films over four days and nights. Guests had access to industry professionals and got to mingle with Hollywood’s hottest. Previous Festival guests have included Joaquin Phoenix, James Woods, Tatum O’Neal, Zach Braff, Colin Hanks, Jennifer Tilly, Joey Lauren Adams, Kevin Connelly, Christopher Masterson, Laura Prepon, James Van Der Beek and many others. Past Film premieres have included The Queen, Born Into Brothels, Prime, Super Size Me, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Garden State, Taxi to the Dark Side, The Devil Came on Horseback, Hustle and Flow, and West Bank Story.

With this diverse and competitive line-up of Documentaries, Shorts, Features and Music Videos; the opportunity to experience film is limitless. However, SDFF doesn’t just screen films. The 2010 Fest will also include exclusive parties, panels and lounges that even those new to the film world won’t want to miss. For more information visit www.sdff.org.

San Marcos Presents Free Movie in the Park

Monsters vs Aliens: August 7, Saturday, 6pm

The following movie is free to the public and will be presented on an enormous inflatable screen in high definition format. Bring beach chairs or blankets for lawn seating or swimsuits to “Flick and Float” at pool. Pre-show activities start at 6 pm and movie starts at dusk. For further information call (760) 744-9000. Movie is at Woodland Park in San Marcos. It’s free or view the movie from the pool for $5.

North County Movie Theaters

LA Paloma Theatre

471 South Coast Highway 101, Encinitas, CA 92024

(760) 436-7469 www.lapalomatheatre.com

Edwards San Marcos Stadium 18 Cinemas

1180 West San Marcos Blvd., San Marcos, CA 92069

(760) 471-3734 www.regmovies.com

UltraStar La Costa 6

Intersection Of El Camino Real And Alga, Carlsbad, CA 92008

(760) 599-8221 www.ultrastarmovies.com

Moviemax at Westfield Plaza Camino Real

2601 El Camino Real, Carlsbad, CA 92008