‘ALWAYS A BANANA, NEVER THE BRIDE’
San Diego actor-playwright Alyssa Anne Austin presents the debut of her one-woman comedycabaret show, subtitled “An Ode to Broadway’s Lesser Ladies.” Austin combines her work as a career coach and branding strategist with her theatrical training for a show that’s part motivational talk, part cabaret, featuring songs from famous musicals sung by “second banana” characters. 3 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday; 7 p.m. Monday. OB Playhouse, 4944 Newport Ave., San Diego. $15-$20. alwaysabananashow.com “First Date”: OnStage Playhouse presents Austin Winsberg, Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner’s 2013 musical comedy about a man and woman, whose blind date becomes overcrowded when the couple’s inner critics and the spirits of their exes, parents and others show up. 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. Through Nov. 6. 291 Third Ave., Chula Vista. $15$25. (619) 422-7787, onstageplayhouse.org “The Wolves”: The San Diego City College Drama Program presents Sarah DeLappe’s Pulitzer Prize finalist play about the packlike, competitive behavior among the members of a high school girls soccer team. 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday; 2 p.m.
Saturday. Saville Theater, 14th and C Streets, San Diego. $5-$15. citycollegetheatre.com
“Mary Poppins”: Moonlight Youth Theatre presents a youth-cast production of this Disney and Cameron Mackintosh stage musical about an eccentric Victorian nanny featuring a cast of 64 young actors.
7:30 p.m. today and Saturday. Moonlight Amphitheatre, Brengle Terrace Park, 1250 Vale Terrace Drive, Vista. $14-$28. (760) 724-2110, moonlightstage.com
“Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery”: Lamb’s Players Theatre presents the San Diego premiere of this fast-paced, quick-change-laden mystery comedy inspired by the Sherlock Holmes novel “The Hound of the Baskervilles.”
7 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays; 2 p.m. Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Through Nov. 20. Lambs Players Theatre, 1142 Orange Ave., Coronado. $36-$72. (619) 437-6000, lambsplayers.org
“The 39 Steps”: Lamplighters Community Theatre presents Patrick Barlow’s fastpaced, comic sendup of the Alfred Hitchcock thriller of the same name. 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. Through Nov. 22. 5915 Severin Drive, La Mesa. $22-$25. (619) 303-5092, lamplighterslamesa.com