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La Jolla Playhouse

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Formation
  
1947

Artistic director(s)
  
Christopher Ashley

Founded
  
1947

Location
  
San Diego, California

Phone
  
+1 858-550-1010

Type of business
  
Theatre group

La Jolla Playhouse

Notable members
  
Founders: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, Mel Ferrer

Address
  
2910 La Jolla Village Dr, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA

Founders
  
Mel Ferrer, Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire

Profiles

La Jolla Playhouse is a not-for-profit, professional theatre on the campus of the University of California, San Diego.

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Background

La Jolla Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Mel Ferrer. In 1983, it was revived under the leadership of Des McAnuff. Since then, the Playhouse's repertoire has included eighty-four world premieres, thirty-two West Coast premieres, and eight American premieres, and has won more than three hundred honors, including the 1993 Tony Award as America's Outstanding Regional Theatre. It is supported, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the City of San Diego, and the County of San Diego. It was announced on April 10, 2007 that Christopher Ashley would succeed McAnuff as Artistic Director.

The Playhouse is internationally-renowned for creating some of the most exciting and adventurous work in American theatre, through its new play development initiatives, its innovative Without Walls series, artist residencies and commissions.

La Jolla Playhouse provides a number of educational opportunities for children, teens, and adults interested in theatre arts, both as performers and behind-the-scenes. In addition, the Performance Outreach Program (POP Tour) annually brings a professional, world-premiere production to schools, libraries, and community centers throughout San Diego. There are additional summer theater opportunities through the La Jolla Playhouse Conservatory, YP@LJP summer camps, student matinees, and many other in-school workshops and classes.

Among the productions that originated at the Playhouse before finding success on Broadway are The Who's Tommy, Matthew Broderick's revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Jane Eyre, Dracula, the Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Cry Baby, Bonnie and Clyde, The Pulitzer Prize-winning I Am My Own Wife, 700 Sundays, Jersey Boys, Memphis, Peter and the Starcatcher, Chaplin, Hands on a Hardbody, Des McAnuff’s revival of Jesus Christ Superstar and Zhivago.

Page To Stage

La Jolla Playhouse began the Page To Stage Play Development Program in 2001 to facilitate the development of new plays and musicals, offering audiences the rare opportunity to experience the "birth" of a play and take part in its evolution. As a Page To Stage workshop, a production will feature minimal sets and costumes, and will be revised throughout its entire process, including performances. After the performance, audience feedback sessions will provide insight and suggestion for both the creative team and the actors. In the five years since the program began, two Page To Stage Productions have gone on to win Tony Awards. Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Leading Actor in a Play (Jefferson Mays); and Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays, a 2004 Page To Stage Production, won the 2005 Tony Award for Special Theatrical Event.

Managing Directors

  • 1981-1991: Alan Levey
  • 1992-2004: Terry Dwyer
  • 2005-2008: Steven Libman
  • 2009- Current: Michael S. Rosenberg
  • Artistic Directors

  • 1947-1959: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, Mel Ferrer (founders)
  • 1983-1994: Des McAnuff
  • 1995-1999: Michael Greif
  • 1999-2000: Anne Hamburger
  • 2000-2007: Des McAnuff
  • 2007-  : Christopher Ashley
  • Actors

    La Jolla Playhouse has been home to many up-and-coming performers as well as established actors.

    2013-2014 season

  • His Girl Friday - by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, adapted by John Guare
  • Tribes - by Nina Raine
  • Sideways - book by Rex Pickett
  • The Tallest Tree in the Forest - by Daniel Beaty
  • Side Show - music by Henry Krieger, book and lyrics by Bill Russell
  • The Who & The What - by Ayad Akhtar
  • 2014-2015 season

  • Chasing the Song - book by Joe DiPietro, music by David Bryan, lyrics by Joe DiPietro and David Bryan
  • The Orphan of Zhao - adapted by James Fenton
  • Ether Dome - by Elizabeth Egloff
  • Kingdom City - by Sheri Wilner
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (musical) - novel by Victor Hugo, music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
  • 2015-2016 season

  • Come From Away - book, music, and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein
  • Up Here (musical) - book, music, and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez
  • Blueprints to Freedom - by Michael Benjamin Washington
  • Healing Wars - by Liz Lerman
  • Without Walls Festival
  • Indecent - by Paula Vogel
  • Guards at the Taj - by Rajiv Joseph
  • 2016-2017 season

  • Hollywood - by Joe DiPietro
  • The Last Tiger in Haiti – by Jeff Augustin
  • Junk: The Golden Age of Debt – by Ayad Akhtar
  • Tiger Style! – by Mike Lew
  • Miss You Like Hell – book & lyrics by Quiara Alegria Hudes, music & lyrics by Erin McKeown
  • Freaky Friday – book by Bridget Carpenter, music & lyrics by Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey
  • References

    La Jolla Playhouse Wikipedia


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