With support from the California Arts Council, New Village Arts (NVA) will produce a summer 2024 live theatre adaptation of Charlie Mackesy’s beloved book “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse”. The production of Mackey’s story – about finding where you belong and where asking for help means a “refusal to give up” – will be developed and performed by a cast and crew with neurodiversity and special needs and be presented in our Conrad Prebys Theatre for six performances. In collaboration with schools and neurodiverse support organizations select community members will be invited to attend for free.
As part of NVA’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, neurodiverse specific programs have been offered since 2012 and now occur in our sensory friendly Sahm Family Foundation Arts Education Center and in schools throughout San Diego County.
New Village Arts (NVA) is now celebrating its 23rd season of award-winning, professional theatre, thrilling and unique visual arts, and thriving education and outreach programs in the Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center.
NVA attracts over 25,000 patrons to Carlsbad Village to experience professional theatre in its intimate, 100 seat house and has been recognized as one of the finest theatres in San Diego County and a regional leader in equity, diversity and inclusion. NVA’s robust Education and Outreach program includes immersive theatre programs in local high schools, The Mainstage Players: a professional training program for teens and young adults with neurodiversity, Mindful Theatre: programs for the local senior community, and Teatro Pueblo Nuevo, an outreach program to our bi-lingual and multi-cultural community.
In 2023, NVA opened the Next Stage, a smaller stage that hosts comedy, opera, spoken word, salsa, and much more.
NVA has truly become the cultural hub of North County San Diego.

