Balboa Park After Dark - Summer Nights!

Performances, exhibits, lectures, films, and special musical interludes fill summer evenings in Balboa Park. Many more nighttime events will be available on the Balboa Park website Twilight in the Park kicks-off a free concert series on June 15 with Stars on the Water. Twilight’s live music under the stars has been delighting visitors to the Park for 30 years, and programs range from military bands and Dixieland jazz to big band swing and Latin salsa. Concerts run through August 26, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings from 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. on the stage of the majestic Spreckels Organ Pavilion. Twilight Schedule The 23rd year of the International Summer Organ Festival begins Monday, June 21. The concerts are at 7:30 p.m. every Monday evening through August 30 on world’s largest outdoor pipe organ in Spreckels Organ Pavilion. Internationally renowned concert and theater organists accompany elegant vocal works, jazz, and a silent movie on August 23. Summer Organ Festival Schedule The San Diego Museum of Art’s Screen on the Green returns on July 23 with an assortment of films. Dates are select Friday nights and include: July 23, August 6 and August 20. Screen on the Green movies begin at 8:00 p.m. on the East lawn and movies are free to the public. 7/23, Jason and the Argonauts; 8/6, The King of Masks; 8/20 Moulin Rouge (1952). www.TheSanDiegoMuseumofArt.org The Old Globe’s popular 2010 Summer Shakespeare Festival presents three plays performed in rotation beginning June 12 and running through September 26. Two Shakespeare productions: King Lear and Taming of the Shrews, along with Alan Bennett’s celebrated classic The Madness of King George are performed under the stars in the outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre. www.theoldglobe.org Nighttime Zoo, the San Diego Zoo’s summer adventure, kicks off June 26 and runs through September 6. Summer hours are 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. www.sandiegozoo.org Starlight Theatre presents musicals favorites for warm summer nights. SUDS: The Rocking 60s Musical begins the season on June 17; The Pajama Game opens on July 15; and everyone’s favorite matchmaker Hello, Dolly! returns on August 19–all with Starlight’s unique flight-path stop-action format. www.starlighttheatre.org www.starlighttheatre.org Check out Balboa Park Events Here