Starlight Bowl, Open-air amphitheater in Balboa Park, San Diego, US.

Starlight Bowl is an open-air theater set inside Balboa Park, a large public park near the center of San Diego. The stage is built for full-scale productions, and the seating rows are arranged on a slope facing it, with the park's trees visible behind the stage.

The amphitheater was built in 1935 for the California Pacific International Exposition and was first known as Ford Bowl after its corporate sponsor. In the decades that followed, it opened up to a wide range of performances and became a regular part of San Diego's public life.

The name comes from the San Diego Civic Light Opera, known as Starlight Musical Theatre, which staged Broadway musicals here each summer until 2011. The company was founded in 1945 and was among the oldest musical theatre companies in the United States. Since its bankruptcy, the bowl has stood unused.

The bowl has not hosted productions since 2011, when the Civic Light Opera mounted no shows and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August; the site is unused and falling into disrepair. A non-profit, Save Starlight, was founded in 2016 to restore it as a multimedia, multicultural event space. Seating is on tiers of brown wooden seats with metal frames, reached by concrete steps with painted white edges and lined with metal railings.

The bowl sits almost directly under the landing path of San Diego International Airport. During Civic Light Opera performances the conductor watched a set of lights showing the noise level from passing planes; when it reached a set level, he signalled everyone to pause and the musicians and performers froze until the plane had passed.