Diversionary Theatre closes landmark 40th season with Rent as we’ve never seen it before. Jonathan Larson didn’t live to see his show change the world. Rent is a Pulitzer Prize-winning […]
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KRISTEN NEVAREZ SCHWEIZER is the daughter of Filipino and Mexican immigrants who met in San Diego. She loves this city, earning her bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts at San Diego State University while writing for The Daily Aztec before working at local-focused institutions, including the San Diego Business Journal and San Diego REPertory Theatre. In addition to covering San Diego art news, she profiles local artists in her award-winning ART SEEN series.
She currently serves as a pastor at Makers Church in North Park.
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THE BUZZ: What to See on Stage This Month. June Theatre Picks Across San Diego
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer This June, it seems every theatre company in the county is staging something worth seeing. It is a logistical nightmare, and I am THRILLED. From Coronado […]
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THE BUZZ: Whimsy and Weight: The Nat reopens with Washed Ashore
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer The Nat is back! The San Diego Natural History Museum is getting ready to throw the doors open with a new atrium ceiling, significant solar installation, […]
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THE BUZZ: San Diego’s Best Youth Talent Take the Balboa Stage — and Two Are Heading to Broadway
Kristen Nevarez Schweizer Each spring, these judges become the cheerleaders. Twenty young performers have been selected from 31 San Diego County high schools for a shot at the Jimmy Awards […]
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THE BUZZ: San Diego Has Too Much Good Theatre in May
The jasmine is blooming and tourists are arriving, meaning it’s time for San Diego theaters to open some of the most anticipated plays of the year. From Coronado to Oceanside, […]
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THE BUZZ: Your Best Friend Is Happy For You. She’s Also Lying: The Old Globe’s Alien Girls
Alien Girls, a world premiere play developed at The Old Globe’s 2025 Powers New Voices Festival, is moving, funny, a little odd, and very vulnerable. Playwright Amy Berryman structures the […]
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THE BUZZ: From the Pulpit to the Stage: Universal Spirit Center Presents The Laramie Project Cycle
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer April 27, 2026 A local spiritual community makes the case that live theatre isn’t just art — it’s a moral act. Universal Spirit Center, an inclusive, […]
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THE BUZZ: The Nora Ephron Era Is Back — and It’s in Solana Beach
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer April 27, 2026 The Gen Z girlies have just discovered Nora Ephron. They’re posting on TikTok about You’ve Got Mail and When Harry Met Sally like […]
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OPINION: San Diego Kept Arts Funding Through 2008 and COVID. Todd Gloria Killed It.
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer April 17, 2026 I have never written about politics. Ever. I follow local politicians the way I follow celebrities (that is to say: loosely, and primarily […]
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THE BUZZ: Fences Still Standing: August Wilson at The Old Globe
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer April 15, 2026 Sit down. Let me tell you about a man named August Wilson — a man who changed Black theatre forever — and how […]
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THE BUZZ: Watch Her Eyes: New Village Arts’ sharply cast Matt & Ben
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer April 10, 2026 The question isn’t whether Matt & Ben, New Village Art’s satirical comedy, lands (it does) – it’s why. Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers […]
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THE BUZZ: Before She Was Mindy Kaling, She Was Ben Affleck: The Comedy That Started It All
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer April 2, 2026 When a press release features a Carlsbad theater showing two Latinas playing Boston-born actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in a comedy co-written […]
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ART SEEN: Anne Lamott & Neal Allen on Writing, Love, and the Creative Life
by Kristen Nevarez Schweizer March 30, 2026 Releasing a hardcover without blurbs on the dust jacket is a power move. Instead of celebrity endorsements, the back cover of Good Writing: […]
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ART SEEN: Paloma Young and the Craft of Storytelling Through Costume
by Kristen Nevarez Schweizer March 27, 2026 The highest compliment you can pay Paloma Young’s work in The Notebook: the Musical is that you didn’t think about her at all. […]
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THE BUZZ: 400 Scripts. One Weekend. Zero Dollars. MOXIE’s New Works Festival Is Back.
Kristen Nevarez Schweizer March 25, 2026 Full disclosure: I have a soft spot for MOXIE Theatre because they truly have moxie. For over twenty years, this brassy company on El […]
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