![]() ![]() To help support the project and get more details about the event, email Johnson at or Common Ground artistic director Yolanda Franklin at San Diego Rep to stream ’57 Chevy’ “She has been a significant part of our community from running a neighborhood jazz festival, to becoming a multi=award winning actress a teacher and a community activist,” Johnson said in an email. 30 at an as-yet undetermined time and location.Īt that event, the very first legacy award will be given to Sylvia M’Lafi Thompson, an award-winning actor and teacher who has been involved in the San Diego theater and music scene for decades. The San Diego Theatres Hall of Fame is a project of Common Ground Theatre, one of the nation’s oldest Black theaters, and Johnson’s own The Vagabond Theatre Project. New hall of fame awards to honor ThompsonĪntonio TJ Johnson, a veteran actor, director and teacher with more than 40 years of experience on San Diego theaters, will soon launch a hall of fame project that will present legacy awards to local artists who he said have “contributed to the fabric” of the San Diego theater community. “Million Dollar Quartet”: One of Lamb’s biggest successes in recent years, this scripted play with music recreates the real-life one-night-only recording session by Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis. “R-E-S-P-E-C-T”: Kerry Meads and Vanda Eggington, the writing team behind some of Lamb’s biggest shows, “Boomers” and “American Rhythm,” are writing a new musical revue that will celebrate the music of the great female singers of the 1960s, including Aretha Franklin, Joni Mitchell, Dionne Warwick, Janis Joplin, Diana Ross, Brenda Lee and more. “The Hound of the Baskervilles”: Smyth said the company is now deciding between a few different theatrical takes on this classic Sherlock Holmes mystery. We have so much great Christmas stuff to share,” Smyth said. ![]() “We decided this would be the show where celebrate our 50th anniversary, rather than a gala. “Christmas 2021: Celebrating Lamb’s 50 Years”: Instead of the usual “Festival of Christmas” production, Lamb’s will host a program with five decades of music from its annual holiday shows. It will be the first season show presented at the home theater, 1142 Orange Ave., Coronado. “The Belle of Amherst”: Lamb’s company member Cynthia Gerber will star in this solo play that takes a humorous and moving look at American poet Emily Dickinson. ![]()
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