Horton Plaza News

More than one irony surrounds playwright-composer Jonathan Larson's death, and not because Larson checked out at just 35.

In a scene reminiscent of a late 1960s Vietnam War protest, Horton Plaza Park was packed with noisy demonstrators on Saturday, April 25, between 3:00 and 4:30 p.m. Most of the estimated 1000 people were in their late teens and early 20s.

People gathered at San Diego City College near Downtown San Diego today to rally and march in support of immigrant rights.

When : Opens Tuesday. Runs Tuesday-Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2 and 8 p.m.; Sunday, 1 and 6 p.m.; through May 10 Where : Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Ave.

Zanna, Don't - A Musical Fairy Tale is exactly that. It's set at Heartsville High School, where everybody's gay; the chess club members are the campus sex symbols, and the spring play features straights as the beleaguered minority.

Opus : A chamber-music group replaces one of its members, and the drama offstage begins.

An attempted bank robbery was foiled by a teller who refused to hand over any money, authorities said Wednesday.

Solidarity : Just as San Diego's maverick MOXIE and Ion theater companies were planning a full production of The Labyrinth of Desire , life intervened.

Rightful home : Your last and only memory of the Broadway sensation Rent may be the 2005 movie, which deservedly landed on its ass about 10 minutes before its release - the late Jonathan Larson's Tony-winning ...

Partners Tyler Jensen, left, and Luis Barrios attend Wednesday's candlelight vigil during a rally against Prop.

Look for a new office in the Rancho Bernardo area and then Del Mar where his old firm is headquartered and run by Jon Cook , who was executive v.p. and g.m. when Rodgers called the shots.

San Diego REP unveils a new production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking musical, The Threepenny Opera , featuring Jeffrey Meek as Mack the Knife, Feb.

Jean-Baptiste Moliere's comic plays and acting gave 17th-century theater a jump-start - but I've always found a frenzied quality to his rapid-fire style, almost as if he's afraid to let his many good passages ...

San Diego REPertory Theatre will present a one-night only special performance of actor/writer and native San Diegan Rick Najera 's new comedy, DADDY DIARIES on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 7pm.

You might not be exactly dazzled by the current fare at the Old Town Theatre, but that's because all the playwrights are under age 19.

In her heart - or at least in what there is of it - Sister Aloysius probably thinks Frosty the Snowman is as gay as a pitted prune.

Love comes in all shapes and colors, just like the folks who screw it up for everybody else.

Located on the Trolley line , this little Mexican eatery offers convenient, cheap, and good breakfast and lunch to anyone from spotlessly dressed folks on their way to the opera to the Lucy's Taco Shop ...

Tim Mays is surely not the first punk-rock fan whose passion for the music as a college student helped transform him into a successful concert promoter.

Lord Andrew Lloyd Weber has announced that his Phantom of the Opera sequel will launch in three countries at once - the first time for such an undertaking.