It's your last chance to see these popular plays before they close this weekend:
"Newsies" at Broadway San Diego
Winner of the 2012 Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Choreography, the Disney musical follows the newsboys' strike of 1899. Child laborers fought against the way Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst underpaid them for delivering newspapers.
The choreography is spectacular (reason enough to go), the songs are catchy and earnest, and the David versus Goliath plot is the bread and butter of Disney stage shows.
"They Don't Talk Back" at La Jolla Playhouse
La Jolla Playhouse's Native Voices at the Autry is a program dedicated to producing new works by Native American, Alaskan Native and First Native playwrights.
"They Don't Talk Back" is a new play about a troubled teen from a broken home. He receives the culture shock of a lifetime when he is sent to live and work with his grandparents in a Tlingit fishing village in Alaska. This funny, heartfelt exploration of the meaning of family and life emerges in a contemporary coming-of-age story.
"Billy Elliot the Musical" at the Lyceum Theatre
California Youth Conservatory stages this story of a boy living in a British mining town who wants nothing more than to be a ballet dancer. Even if it means going against his family.
Undergraduate New Play Festival at UC San Diego
This annual new play festival showcases new plays by the university's theater students. "Built for Two, " by Justin Samoy, will be staged Friday, June 3, at Galbraith Hall, Room 320. "Social Suicide," by Farah Abouzeid, is Saturday, June 4, at Galbraith Hall's south-facing patio.
Tickets are free; RSVP is recommended.
Also Closing:
"Evita" at OnStage Playhouse
The Chula Vista theater stages this beloved tale of Eva Peron, Argentina's First Lady. This Cinderella story shows how Evita went from a champion for the poor to ambitious leader.
"Bedside Manners" at PowPAC
This comedy by Derek Benfield about the crazy happenings in a seedy country hotel. The play is recommended for ages 18 and up.
