By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer January 14, 2026 For San Diego Opera, the final dress rehearsal isn’t just about practicing lighting cues and final changes. It’s also about a third grader […]
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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: Everyone’s Invited: Cygnet’s 2026 Lineup Celebrates Art for Every Audience
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer December 23, 2025 Cygnet Theatre announces Christopher Lysik as the 2026 recipient of the Dee Silver, M.D. Commission—bringing his new musical Songs for the Anthropocene to […]
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THE BUZZ: Long Live the Queens: SIX Turns History Into a Pop Commentary
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer December 17, 2025 Where Hamilton: An American Musical reframed the Founding Fathers around rap battles, SIX: The Musical recasts England’s most famous wives as pop icons. […]
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THE BUZZ: Mary Did It: A Beloved Christmas Classic Gets a Feminist Revival
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer December 10, 2025 In my home, It’s a Wonderful Life is not a movie but a memory. I watch it religiously every Christmas season. And like […]
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THE BUZZ: Working Girl at La Jolla Playhouse Reinvents an ’80s Classic for a New Feminist Era
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer December 3, 2025 La Jolla Playhouse has once again birthed a Broadway-ready musical into our backyard. Working Girl: The Musical uses its source material with confidence […]
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THE BUZZ: A Local Mama’s Guide to 9 Free Holiday Events in San Diego (2025 Edition)
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer November 21, 2025 December Nights – Balboa Park Dec 5 & 6, 2025The city’s largest holiday festival: lights, live music, food vendors, and all-ages fun across […]
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THE BUZZ: The Best Christmas Performances in San Diego 2025 (From Someone Who Actually Goes)
by Kristen Nevarez Schweizer November 21, 2025 San Diego likes to flex our fair-weather holiday season with palm-tree light displays, picnic performances of carols under the stars, and bay-side parades. […]
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THE BUZZ: Harlem’s Ghosts Still Sing: Moxie Theatre’s Blues for an Alabama Sky
by Kristen Nevarez Schweizer October 6, 2025 Moxie Theatre’s Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage unfolds like a jazz riff stretched across a Harlem summer—hot, aching, and unapologetically […]
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THE BUZZ: Huzzah! at The Old Globe: A New Classic Musical Comedy in the Making
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer October 3, 2025 When I judge a major new musical, I use a simple sniff test: could I want to attend an amateur production of this […]
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THE BUZZ: Why SUFFS Hits Different in San Diego—Especially During a Government Shutdown
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer October 3, 2025 National theatrical tours are a bit of a magic trick. They promise a Broadway experience without the pilgrimage to Manhattan’s theatre district. But, […]
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THE BUZZ: Live, Laugh, Limerence: a reflection on Cygnet’s Follies
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer September 21, 2025 The opening of The Joan — San Diego’s newest performing arts space in Liberty Station — would never be small or safe. But […]
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THE BUZZ: A Hometown Theater Built with Heart: Cygnet Opens Its Doors at The Joan
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer September 5, 2025 Eight years ago, philanthropist and arts luminary Dorothea “Dottie” Laub gazed across Liberty Station, pointed at a former Navy commissary, and said: “That […]
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THE BUZZ: The Old Globe’s DECEIVED: When Knowing the Twist Becomes the Show
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer September 5, 2025 The Old Globe’s Deceived—the West Coast premiere of Johnna Wright and Patty Jamieson’s adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s Gaslight, directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg—is […]
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THE BUZZ: The Future of Musicals Has a Beat — And It’s in La Jolla
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer September 5, 2025 La Jolla Playhouse has a habit of birthing the kind of musicals that grow up to win Tony Awards. That alone is why […]
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THE BUZZ: Saved by the Bard: The Comedy of Errors Gets a 90s Remix
by Kristen Nevarez Schweizer August 20, 2025 If the sitcom Friends and William Shakespeare had a baby, and that child was raised on Surge, slap bracelets, and mistaken identity, you’d […]
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