About Starlight San Diego Civic Light Opera Association is one of the oldest continuously producing musical theatre companies in the United States. Starlight was founded in 1945 by Charlie Cannon, William Dean, Julius Leib and Robert J. Sullivan. Starlight Musical Theatre, presented its first season in 1946 with Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado, presented in the San Diego Zoo's Wegeforth Bowl. It...
Since 1946, Starlight Theatre has inspired and dazzled generations of theatre-goers, presenting live musical theatre under the stars during the summer.