Theater Notebook: New Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center in Carlsbad makes national arts history

Also this week: Diversionary Theatre lands a writers residency for a new musical it's developing, and a celebration of life for former U-T critic Welton Jones is set for Feb. 11

Matt M. Morrow, executive artistic director of Diversionary Theatre, outside the University Heights theater in 2021.Diversionary Theatre in University Heights is among eight U.S. theaters that have received grants this past week from the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, which sponsors the development of new American musicals.

Diversionary has yet to announce when it will present “Queer. People. Time.” but a synopsis of the musical ondescribes it as a chamber musical where five people walk into a queer bar in five time periods — the 1920s, 1950s, 1970s, 1990s and today — where they meet and fall in love, but in each time period their relationships are complicated by the complexities of the world.

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