The performing arts flourish Downtown, where San Diego’s greatest concentration of top-notch producing organizations and venues are based. Performances Downtown and in Balboa Park draw audiences from county residents to regional, national and international visitors in town on business or for pleasure. The city transient occupancy tax funds many of these organizations; they in turn are both visitor destinations and lures that bring business from throughout the region.

Broadway/San Diego (Civic Theatre)

Eveoke Dance Theatre (Wonder Bread Factory)

Lyric Opera San Diego (Casa del Prado)

Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theatre

Museum of Contemporary Art

Old Globe Theatres

San Diego City College

San Diego Dance Alliance (various venues)

San Diego Museum of Art

San Diego Opera (Civic Theatre)

San Diego Repertory Theatre

San Diego Symphony (Copley Symphony Hall and Summer Pops at Embarcadero Marina Park South)

Sledgehammer Theatre

Spreckels Organ Society (Spreckels Pavilion)

Spreckels Theatre

Starlight Theatre

Sushi Takeout (vagabonding through Downtown sites this year)

Triple Espresso (Horton Grand Theatre)