The Theatre's website (
visit link) informs us:
"MISSION STATEMENT
Lamb's Players Theatre is a professional, non-profit performing arts organization now in its 39th year.
The company's mission is to tell good stories well and be a theatre that:
-Probes and questions the values and choices of contemporary culture.
-Celebrates the joys, strengths and diverse traditions of family and community.
-Explores the spiritual dimension of life.
-Champions the moral imagination.
Lamb's Players is an artist-directed organization. It was the first theatre in San Diego to establish a full-time, long-term company of actors, directors, playwrights and designers and it continues to maintain the Southwest's only year-round acting ensemble.
In addition to its resident work, the theatre's Educational Outreach performs to tens of thousands of students each year in schools throughout the county.
GENERAL COMPANY FACTS
-is San Diego's third-largest theatre.
-has a staff of 55 and a $4.7 million budget—ranking it among the top 50 theatres in the nation.
-produces 9-10 mainstage productions annually, including a five-production subscription season in Coronado, 2-3 longer-running productions at the Horton Grand theatre, two holiday productions (including An American Christmas at the Hotel del Coronado.)
-maintains an acclaimed Educational Outreach program, which performs to tens of thousands of elementary and middle school students yearly throughout the Western United States with its award-winning "Critical Issues/Critical Choices" program.
-provides internships which afford college students the chance to work alongside theatre professionals.
-is committed to the development of new work, having produced 38 world premieres and 35 regional premieres.
-is one of only a handful of artist-directed theatres in the nation with a year-round, long-term acting ensemble-the only one of its kind in the Southwest.
SEASON
Over the years, the theatre has produced over 200 productions from the classics to modern drama to musical comedy. This audience represents an even distribution from throughout San Diego County as well as parts of Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside Counties, and beyond."
and indicates some of the past productions includes:
Till We Have Faces
The Rivals
The Boys Next Door
The Trip To Bountiful
The Foreigner
Traveler In The Dark
Cotton Patch Gospel
Quilters
Festival Of Christmas
The Lake Forest Prophecy
Dickens,Dining and Song
Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
The Nerd
Damien
An Ideal Husband
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
The Wind In The Willows
The Chalk Garden
Johnny Pye And The FoolKiller
Festival Of Christmas
It's Christmas and It's Live
Dickens,Dining and Song
Amadeus
An Inspector Calls
Much Ado About Nothing
The Diary Of Anne Frank
Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Festival Of Christmas
Belinda and the Gifts of the Christ Child1988
The Foreigner
Saint Joan
The Book of the Dun Cow
Kilts
Cotton Patch Gospel
Festival Of Christmas
The Perfect Christmas
A Man For All Seasons
Tally's Folly
Rhinoceros
Dames At Sea
Dracula
Godspell
Festival Of Christmas
Angel's Arms
1776
The Diviners
The Tavern
The Miser
Spoon River Anthology
Oklahoma Rigs
Festival Of Christmas
Once Upon A Time...
The Two Gentlemen Of Verona
Walking Dreams
Mass Appeal
Once Upon A Mattress
Ring Round The Moon
The Potting Shed
Fiddler On The Roof
Festival Of Christmas
A Christmas Waltz
West Side Story
The Diary of Adam and Eve
A Phoenix Too Frequent
My Asparagus Is Growing Fine
See How They Run
Tintypes
A Proud Look, A Lying Tongue
The Taming of the Shrew
Festival Of Christmas
Victorian Holiday
Charley's Aunt
Deep River
Damien
Festival Of Christmas
A Renaissance Christmas
Dr. Faustus
Arms and the Man
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Godspell
Ten Little Indians
Festival Of Christmas
Angel's Arms
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sentenced To Life
Becket
The Rainmaker
Shake The Country
Festival Of Christmas
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Cammand The Morning
Pilgrim
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Festival Of Christmas
A Christmas Waltz
Luther
The Fourposter
Cyrano De Bergerac
Firebugs
The Crucible
Festival Of Christmas
Victorian Holiday
A Man For All Seasons
The Matchmaker
The Mousetrap
Festival Of Christmas
A Renaissance Christmas