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Best San Diego Musicals Running in 2024 & 2025
San Diego is home to many professional and local theaters, with some of the best actors in the country gracing their stages. Theaters like The Old Globe and La Jolla Playhouse are known for their world premieres of shows that have often made the move to Broadway and beyond, touring North America and internationally. Almost Famous, Meteor Shower, Bright Star by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder all started at The Old Globe while Come From Away, SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, Memphis, and Jersey Boys started at La Jolla Playhouse, along with the musical adaptation of the novel The Outsiders which is coming to Broadway stages in March of 2024.
Touring Broadway shows on the West Coast play at the San Diego Civic Theatre while companies like the Cygnet Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, San Diego Musical Theatre, San Diego Junior Theatre, and more offer great musicals, plays, and other live performances for audiences of all ages.
Here are the best San Diego musicals you can see right now, and what’s coming to San Diego theatres soon! And for special discounts and exclusive offers, check out ArtsTix, which sells tickets to theater, dance, comedy, live music, and other performing arts shows, tours and attractions.