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La Jolla Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Mel Ferrer. [1] [2] [3] In 1983, it was revived under the leadership of Des McAnuff.Since then, the Playhouse's repertoire has included 108 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 ...
Redwood is a musical with music by Kate Diaz and lyrics by Diaz and Tina Landau and a book by Landau. The show tells the story of Jesse, a woman who is inspired to go on a journey of self discovery by losing herself within a Redwood tree forest. The show premiered in 2024 at the La Jolla Playhouse and is expected to transfer to Broadway in 2025 ...
La Jolla Playhouse production history. The La Jolla Playhouse is an American not-for-profit, professional theatre-in-residence on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. It was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Mel Ferrer. The following is a chronological list of the productions that have been staged since its ...
The La Jolla Playhouse production transferred to the Paper Mill Playhouse with the 19 person core cast with three new cast members Jeremy Stolle, Dashaun Young, and Joseph J. Simeone, (replacing San Diego locals Brian Smolin, William Thomas Hodgson, and Lucas Coleman respectively) with a new choir local to New Jersey, the Continuo Arts ...
The La Jolla Playhouse's Wow Festival illustrates the ways in which theater and play continue to converge, most spectacularly in the world premiere of "La Lucha," an immersive theater standout.
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical is a jukebox musical with book by Colman Domingo, Robert Cary, and Des McAnuff and music and lyrics Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte, Paul Jabara, and others, based on the life of Summer. The musical made its premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse in November 2017 and opened on Broadway in April 2018.
The musical premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse on February 19, 2023, and closed April 9, 2023, after extending a week due to high ticket sales. [9] The principal cast included Brody Grant as Ponyboy Curtis, Sky Lakota-Lynch as Johnny Cade, Ryan Vasquez as Darrell Curtis, and Jason Schmidt as Sodapop Curtis. [10]
The La Jolla Playhouse production presents a kinder, gentler version of “Babbitt” that’s basically a character study of a man who wishes “to no longer feel so dead inside.” There’s a ...