San Diego Old Globe invites you to take a trip back to the heady summer of 1973 as they open the 2019/20 season with this brand new stage adaptation of Cameron Crowe's Academy Award-winning, semi-autobiographical account of his time as a rookie reporter for Rolling Stone. Tasked with following up and coming band, Stillwater, Crowe's tale follows 15-year-old William Miller as he dives head first into the debaucherous rock and roll scene. Featuring a book by Crowe, direction from Jeremy Herrin and a new score from Tom Kitt, expect a nostalgic coming of age opus where seemingly nothing is off limits. Incendiary!

Based on the beloved children's Christmas novel by the infamous Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas has been playing across the world as a whimsical and altogether magical festive musical. The famed musical returns to San Diego for its 22nd year at the Old Globe in 2019, bringing the magic of Christmas to all!

Who knew Ebenezer Scrooge had a funny bone?! This year, instead of falling asleep in a stuffy old Nutcracker ballet, round up family young and old, and head to the Old Globe's West Coast premiere of Ebenezer Scrooge's Big San Diego Christmas Show. It's Dickens' Yuletide classic, but with a rib-tickling comedy twist written by Gordon Greenburg and Steve Rosen, the theatermaking team behind other local smash hits The Other Josh Cohen and The Curious Case of the Curse of Count Dracula!

The Tony-winning revival of August Wilson's play, Jitney, is hitting the road in 2019 as it heads out on a national tour! Playing Broadway's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in 2017 this Reuben Santiago-Hudson helmed production garnered critical acclaim as well as garnering six Tony Award nominations. Written by August Wilson in 1979, Jitney tells the story of a group of jitney (unlicensed taxi) drivers in the 1970s and their fight to survive amongst Pittburgh's 'urban renewal'.

The modern issue of climate change finds an unlikely solution in the mythological Greek God of wine, Dionysus. Dionysus decides to come to earth disguised as Butch gardener Diane in order to gain human followers and restore the planet back to its natural and safe state. She begins with four real housewives from New Jersey.