SD Junior Theatre Presents SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL Feb 28-Mar 16, 2025!

SAN DIEGO - EntSun -- BALBOA PARK – San Diego Junior Theatre, the nation's longest-running youth theatre program, continues its 77^th Season with Sideways Stories from Wayside School, based on the popular Louis Sachar book series of the same name.

Sideways Stories from Wayside School shows us all the wacky adventures that happen at the titular Wayside School. Pigtails come to life! Students are turned into apples! Substitute teachers are… nice?

Directed by SDJT Teaching Artist, Kira Blaskovich, excitement and hilarity awaits in this play that's 30 stories tall.

Sideways Stories from Wayside School will run Fridays at 7pm and Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm from February 28 to March 16, 2025.

JT's popular Pajama Night is Friday, March 7. Kids attending in their favorite pajamas will get a special gift!

Junior Theatre continues to provide an American Sign Language-interpreted performance for each production. The ASL-interpreted performance for Sideways Stories... will be Saturday, March 15 at 2pm. For optimal seating, members of the Deaf community can purchase tickets in the red seating section online or reach out directly to the box office at boxoffice@juniortheatre.com.

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COVID-19 Protocol

Junior Theatre strongly encourages all eligible patrons to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Masks are recommended but not required. Patrons are asked to check https://juniortheatre.com/covid-19-safety/ for full details and any policy updates prior to attending a performance.

About San Diego Junior Theatre

Since 1948, Junior Theatre's mission has been to provide engaging, innovative, high-quality theatre education and productions for children of all cultural heritage, ages, abilities, and levels of interest. Junior Theatre training fosters creativity, imagination and independent thinking which helps a young person face life's challenges and discover themselves and their place in this world. Students gain confidence, learn leadership, practice teamwork and build a skill set - not only for a theatre stage, but for the larger stage of the real world. Notable alumni include Tony Award-winning Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell, Casey Nicholaw, director/choreographer of such Broadway hits as Mean Girls, The Book of Mormon and Something Rotten!, Agnes Chu, recently President of Condé Nast Entertainment, and many others who have gone on to success in a variety of fields. Junior Theatre's motto is "Theatre skills are skills for life!"

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All Junior Theatre productions are performed in Balboa Park's historic Casa del Prado Theatre, 1600 Village Place, at the corner of Old Globe Way and Village Place. Tickets are $18 - $20. Discounts are available for groups of 15 or more. For tickets and more information, visit www.juniortheatre.com or call the box office at 619-239-8355.