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La Jolla Playhouse is a not-for-profit, professional theatre-in-residence on the campus of the University of California, San Diego, United States. It was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Mel Ferrer.

Contents

The following is a chronological list of the productions that have been staged since its inception.

1947

  • Angel Street by Patrick Hamilton
  • The Shining Hour by Keith Winter
  • Tonight at 8:30 ... The Astonished Heart, Fumed Oak, Still Life by Noël Coward
  • Biography by S. N. Behrman
  • The Guardsman by Ferenc Molnár
  • The Hasty Heart by John Patrick
  • Dear Ruth by Norman Krasna
  • Night Must Fall by Emlyn Williams

    • 1948

  • The Male Animal by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent
  • Rope by Patrick Hamilton
  • Serena Blandish (The Difficulty of Getting Married) by S. N. Behrman
  • Ultra-Marine by Peter Blackmore
  • The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
  • For Love or Money by F. Hugh Herbert
  • The First Mrs. Fraser by St. John Ervine
  • The Road to Rome by Robert Sherwood
  • Kind Lady by Edward Chodorov

    • 1949

  • Petticoat Fever by Mark Reed
  • Command Decision by William Wister Haines
  • Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
  • Art and Mrs. Bottle by Benn Levy
  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  • Light Up the Sky by Moss Hart
  • Arrangement for Strings by Michael Clayton Hutton and Samuel Rosen
  • Here Today by George Oppenheimer
  • Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward

    • 1950

  • Goodbye Again by Allan Scott and George Haight
  • Clutterbuck by Benn Levy
  • The Silver Whistle by Robert E. McEnroe
  • Our Town by Thornton Wilder
  • The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
  • Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring
  • Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams
  • Claudia by Rose Franken
  • Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin

    • 1951

  • On Borrowed Time by Paul Osborn
  • The Petrified Forest by Robert E. Sherwood
  • Room Service by John Murray and Allen Boretz
  • Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge
  • The Voice of the Turtle by John Van Druten
  • Susan and God by Rachel Crothers
  • Second Threshold by Philip Barry
  • Ring Round the Moon by Jean Anouilh, translation by Christopher Fry

    • 1952

  • The Lady's Not for Burning by Christopher Fry
  • Strike a Match by Robert Smith
  • The Corn Is Green by Emlyn Williams
  • The Happy Time by Samuel Taylor
  • Affairs of State by Louis Verneuil
  • Season in the Sun by Wolcott Gibbs
  • Time for Elizabeth by Groucho Marx and Norman Krasna
  • Remains to be Seen by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
  • The Moon Is Blue by F. Hugh Herbert

    • 1953

  • Don Juan In Hell by George Bernard Shaw
  • Dial M for Murder by Frederick Knott
  • You Never Can Tell by George Bernard Shaw
  • Stalag 17 by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski
  • The Dazzling Hour by Anna Bonacci
  • My 3 Angels by Sam and Bella Spewack
  • Jane by S. N. Behrman, based on an original story by W. Somerset Maugham
  • I Am a Camera by John Van Druten

    • 1954

  • The Vacant Lot by Paul Streger and Berrilla Kerr
  • The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod
  • Sabrina Fair by Samuel Taylor
  • Anniversary Waltz by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields
  • The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan

    • 1955

  • Oh, Men! Oh, Women! by Edward Chodorov
  • The Time of the Cuckoo by Arthur Laurents
  • Native Uprising by D. N. Roman
  • The Rainmaker by N. Richard Nash

    • 1956

  • The Little Hut by André Roussin
  • Pal Joey by John O'Hara, music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart
  • Miss Julie & The Stronger by August Strindberg
  • King of Hearts by Jean Kerr and Eleanor Brooke
  • Bus Stop by William Inge

    • 1957

  • Androcles and the Lion / The Proposal by George Bernard Shaw / Anton Chekhov
  • Career by James Lee
  • The Potting Shed by Graham Greene
  • Paul and Constantine by Dario Bellini
  • The Reluctant Debutante by William Douglas-Home

    • 1958

  • Visit to a Small Planet by Gore Vidal
  • A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
  • Bell, Book and Candle by John Van Druten

    • 1959

  • Too Many Husbands by W. Somerset Maugham
  • Once More, with Feeling! by Harry Kurnitz
  • Two for the Seesaw by William Gibson
  • Who Was That Lady I Saw You With? by Norman Krasna
  • Look Homeward, Angel by Ketti Frings, based on the novel by Thomas Wolfe

    • 1983

  • Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
  • A Mad World, My Masters by Barrie Keeffe
  • The Visions of Simone Machard by Bertolt Brecht

    • 1984

  • As You Like It by William Shakespeare
  • War Babies by Robert C. Coe
  • Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong by Randy Newman
  • Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by William Hauptman, music and lyrics by Roger Miller

    • 1985

  • The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
  • Ghost on Fire by Michael Weller
  • A Man's a Man by Bertolt Brecht
  • Merrily We Roll Along by George Furth, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

    • 1986

  • Ajax by Sophocles, adapted by Robert Auletta
  • Gillette by William Hauptman
  • Figaro Gets a Divorce by Ödön von Horváth
  • The Three Cuckolds by Leon Katz
  • Shout Up a Morning by Paul Avila Mayer and George W. George, music by Julian Adderley and Nathaniel Adderley, lyrics by Diane Charlotte Lampert

    • 1987

  • Silent Edward by Des McAnuff
  • The Tempest by William Shakespeare
  • The School for Wives by Molière, translation by Richard Wilbur
  • A Walk in the Woods by Lee Blessing
  • Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
  • The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder

    • 1988

  • 80 Days by Snoo Wilson, music and lyrics by Ray Davies
  • The Fool Show by Geoff Hoyle
  • Lulu by Frank Wedekind
  • Two Rooms by Lee Blessing
  • Once in a Lifetime by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman

    • 1989

  • The Man Who Had No Story by Oana-Marie Hock
  • Macbeth by William Shakespeare
  • The Misanthrope by Molière
  • Down the Road by Lee Blessing
  • Dangerous Games - Two Tango Pieces by Jim Lewis and Graciela Daniele, lyrics by William Finn, music by Astor Piazzolla
  • Nebraska by Keith Reddin
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

    • 1990

  • Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
  • My Children! My Africa! by Athol Fugard
  • Don Quixote De La Jolla by Eric Overmyer
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
  • Life During Wartime by Keith Reddin
  • The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

    • 1991

  • Elmer Gantry by John Bishop, music by Mel Marvin, lyrics by Bob Satuloff
  • A Lesson from Aloes by Athol Fugard
  • The Heliotrope Bouquet by Eric Overmyer
  • The Regard of Flight and The Clown Bagatelles by Bill Irwin
  • Fortinbras by Lee Blessing
  • Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov

    • 1992

  • Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
  • The Swan by Elizabeth Egloff
  • Marisol by José Rivera
  • Playland by Athol Fugard
  • What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton
  • The Who's Tommy by Pete Townshend
  • Le Petomane - A Comedy of Airs by Paul Magid
  • The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

    • 1993

  • Sweet & Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen, music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Harold Arlen, Truman Capote, Ira Gershwin, Yip Harburg, Ted Koehler, Johnny Mercer, Leo Robin, Billy Rose and Jack Yellen
  • The Mission by Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Siguenza
  • Luck, Pluck & Virtue by James Lapine
  • The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill
  • Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
  • Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream by Steven Epp, Felicity Jones, Dominique Serrand and Paul Walsh

    • 1994

  • How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, music and lyrics by Frank Loesser
  • Mump & Smoot In Ferno by Michael Kennard and John Turner
  • The Good Person of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht
  • Thérèse Raquin by Neal Bell
  • The Triumph of Love by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
  • Harvey by Mary Chase

    • 1995

  • Randy Newman's Faust, book, music, lyrics by Randy Newman
  • An Almost Holy Picture by Heather McDonald
  • Slavs! Thinking about the Longstanding Problems by Tony Kushner
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
  • Cloud Tectonics by José Rivera
  • The Invisible Circus/Le Cirque Invisible by Victoria Chaplin

    • 1996

  • Valley Song by Athol Fugard
  • Boy by Diana Son
  • The Green Bird by Carlo Gozzi
  • Happy Days by Samuel Beckett
  • Yanks & Frogs by Theatre de la Jeune Lune
  • 2.5 Minute Ride by Lisa Krion

    • 1997

  • Harmony by Bruce Sussman, music by Barry Manilow
  • Having Our Say by Emily Mann
  • The Model Apartment by Donald Margulies
  • Rent by Jonathan Larson
  • The School for Wives by Molière
  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

    • 1998

  • Maricela De La Luz Lights the World by José Rivera
  • Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
  • Light Up the Sky by Moss Hart
  • Improbable Theatres 70 Hill Lane by Phelim McDermott
  • The Captain's Tiger: A Memoir for the Stage by Athol Fugard
  • Guitar Lessons: The Springhill Singing Disaster by Karen Trott
  • Nora by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Ingmar Bergman

    • 1999

  • The Flimflam Man by Melanie Marnich
  • Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams
  • Wonderland by Chay Yew
  • Pretty Fire by Charlayne Woodard
  • Jane Eyre by John Caird and Paul Gordon
  • Loot by Joe Orton
  • Oo-Bla-Dee by Regina Taylor

    • 2000

  • Alice's Wild Ride by Karen Hartman
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie by Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan, music by Jeanine Tesori
  • Going to St. Ives by Lee Blessing
  • The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union by David Greig
  • Sheridan or Schooled In Scandal by David Grimm
  • Lifegame by Keith Johnstone
  • Blood Wedding by Federico García Lorca, translation by David Johnston

    • 2001

  • The Origin of Corn / El Origen De Maiz by Ralph Lee
  • Dracula, The Musical by Christopher Hampton and Don Black, music by Frank Wildhorn
  • Diva by Howard Gould
  • The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and Leigh Fondakowski
  • Be Aggressive by Annie Weisman
  • I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
  • The Collected Works of Billy The Kid by Michael Ondaatje
  • Our Town by Thornton Wilder

    • 2002

  • Ladybird: The Life and Time of a Roller Derby Queen by Luis Alfaro
  • Mabou Mines Peter & Wendy by J. M. Barrie
  • Adoration of the Old Woman by José Rivera
  • I Think I Like Girls by Leigh Fondakowski
  • Wintertime by Charles L. Mee
  • When Grace Comes In by Heather McDonald
  • A Feast of Fools by Geoff Hoyle, music by Gina Leishman
  • Tartuffe by Molière, translation by Richard Wilbur

    • 2003

  • The Breeze, the Gust, the Gale, and the Wind by Hilly Hicks
  • The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
  • Beauty by Tina Landau
  • Eden Lane by Tom Donaghy
  • The Country by Martin Crimp
  • The Burning Deck by Sarah Schulman
  • Fräulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler
  • Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov

    • 2004

  • Guitar by Julia Jordan
  • Private Fittings by Georges Feydeau, adapted by Mark O'Donnell
  • Jersey Boys by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe
  • The Love of Three Oranges by Carlo Gozzi, adaptation by James Magruder
  • Paris Commune by Steve Cosson and Michael Friedman
  • Suitcase by Melissa James Gibson
  • Continental Divide: Mothers Against and Daughters of the Revolution by David Edgar
  • 700 Sundays / Billy Crystal / A Life In Progress by Billy Crystal

    • 2005

  • Pop Tour: Bay and the Spectacles of Doom by Julia Cho
  • Palm Beach, The Screwball Musical by Robert Cary and Benjamin Feldman, music by David Gursky
  • Zhivago by Michael Weller, music by Lucy Simon, lyrics by Michael Korie and Amy Powers
  • Current Nobody by Melissa James Gibson
  • I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
  • The Scottish Play by Lee Blessing
  • The Miser by Molière
  • Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
  • Pop Tour: West of the 5 by Sunil Kuruvilla

    • 2006

  • Zhivago by Michael Weller, music by Lucy Simon, lyrics by Michael Korie and Amy Powers
  • Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
  • All Wear Bowlers by Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford
  • Culture Clashs Zorro In Hell by Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas and Herbert Sigüenza
  • The Wiz by William F. Brown, music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls
  • The Farnsworth Invention by Aaron Sorkin, music by Andrew Lippa

    • 2007/08

  • Carmen by Sarah Miles, music by John Ewbank
  • The Deception, adapted from La Fausse Suivante by Pierre Marivaux
  • After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
  • The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice
  • Cry-Baby by John Waters
  • The Seven by Will Power, music by Will Power, Will Hammond, Justin Ellington
  • Most Wanted by Jessica Hagedorn, music by Mark Bennett

    • 2008/09

  • 33 Variations by Moisés Kaufman
  • The Night Watcher by Charlayne Woodard
  • Memphis (musical) by Joe DiPietro
  • The Third Story by Charles Busch
  • Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
  • Xanadu by Douglas Carter Beane
  • The Edge Series

    • 2009/10

  • Unusual Acts of Devotion by Terrence McNally
  • Creditors, adapted and directed by Doug Wright
  • Restoration
  • Herringbone
  • The 39 Steps
  • Bonnie & Clyde by Frank Wildhorn, Don Black and Ivan Menchel
  • Aurélia's Oratorio by Aurélia Thierrée Chaplin
  • The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, directed by Darko Tresnjak
  • The Edge Series: Dogugaeshi and HOOVER COMES ALIVE!

    • 2010/11

  • Surf Report by Annie Weisman
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
  • Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin by Christopher Curtis and Thomas Meehan
  • Notes from Underground, adapted by Bill Camp and Robert Woodruff from the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Ruined by Lynn Nottage
  • Little Miss Sunshine, music and lyrics by William Finn; Book and Direction by James Lapine

    • 2011/12

  • A Dram of Drummhicit by Arthur Kopit and Anton Dudley
  • Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen and adapted by David Schweitzer
  • Sleeping Beauty Wakes, music and lyrics by Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda Book by Rachel Sheinken
  • Milk Like Sugar by Kirsten Greenidge
  • Jesus Christ Superstar, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice
  • American Night: The Ballad of Juan José by Richard Montoya

    • 2012/13

  • Hands on a Hardbody, music by Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green, lyrics by Amanda Green, book by Doug Wright
  • Blood and Gifts by J. T. Rogers
  • The Nightingale, music and lyrics by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, book by Steven Sater
  • An Iliad by Homer, adapted by Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson
  • Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
  • Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by Wayne Coyne and Des McAnuff

    • 2013/14

  • 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

    • 2014/15

  • 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

    • 2015/16

  • Come From Away, book, music, and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein
  • Up Here, book, music, and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez
  • Blueprints to Freedom by Michael Benjamin Washington
  • Healing Wars by Liz Lerman
  • Indecent by Paula Vogel
  • Guards at the Taj by Rajiv Joseph

    • 2016/17

  • Latin History for Dummies, created and performed by John Leguizamo
  • 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 by Quiara Alegria Hudes, music by Erin McKeown, lyrics by Quiara Alegria Hudes and Erin McKeown
  • Freaky Friday, book by Bridget Carpenter, music and lyrics by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, based on the novel by Mary Rodgers

    • 2017/18

  • Escape to Margaritaville, book by Greg Garcia and Mike O'Malley, music and lyrics by Jimmy Buffett
  • At the Old Place by Rachel Bonds
  • Wild Goose Dreams by Hansol Jung
  • Untitled Donna Summer Musical, choreographed by Sergio Trujillo

    • References

    La Jolla Playhouse production history Wikipedia
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