Now in its 27th year, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Musicals will invite theatre producers from around the world to New York City to preview eight new shows in development Oct 15-16. Tony Award-nominee Sarah Stiles (Hand to God), Jake Epstein (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin), Emily Padgett (Side Show), Zell Steele Morrow (Fun Home) and Emmy Raver-Lampman (Hamilton) are the latest to join the star-studded casts.

The theatre community in the San Diego area is particularly rich, with productions playing at the Old Globe, San Diego Rep, the La Jolla Playhouse, Sledgehammer, Spreckles Theatre, San Diego Civic Theatre, Copley Hall and many others at any one time.

Hello diva lovers. I thought I would devote this week's column to a few multi-talented women I don't have the chance to cover as frequently as I'd wish. Enjoy. . .

Hello diva lovers. I thought I would devote this week's column to a few multi-talented women I don't have the chance to cover as frequently as I'd wish. Enjoy. . .