La Jolla Playhouse production history

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Contents 1 1947 2 1948 3 1949 4 1950 5 1951 6 1952 7 1953 8 1954 9 1955 10 1956 11 1957 12 1958 13 1959 14 1983 15 1984 16 1985 17 1986 18 1987 19 1988 20 1989 21 1990 22 1991 23 1992 24 1993 25 1994 26 1995 27 1996 28 1997 29 1998 30 1999 31 2000 32 2001 33 2002 34 2003 35 2004 36 2005 37 2006 38 2007-2008 39 2008-2009 40 External links

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.

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

[edit] 1947

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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 Noel Coward

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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 Russell Crouse
• The Moon Is Blue - by F. Hugh Herbert

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 1956

• The Little Hut - by Andre 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 1959

• Too Many Husbands - by 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

[edit] 1983

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

[edit] 1984

• As You Like It - by William Shakespeare
• War Babies - by Robert 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 1987

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 1989

• The Man Who Had No Story - by Oana-Marie Hock
• Macbeth - by William Shakespeare
• The Misanthrope - by Moliere
• 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 1993

• Sweet & Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen - music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Harold Arlen, Truman Capote, Ira Gershwin, E.Y. 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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 Moliere
• The Importance of Being Earnest - by Oscar Wilde

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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 Garcia Lorca, translation by David Johnston

[edit] 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 Moises 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 2007-2008

• 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

[edit] 2008-2009

• 33 Variations - by Moises Kaufman
• The Night Watcher - by Charlayne Woodard
• The Third Story - by Charles Busch
• Tobacco Road - by Erskine Caldwell
• Xanadu - by Douglas Carter Beane
• The Edge Series

[edit] External links

• La Jolla Playhouse official website
• California Arts Council
• Christopher Ashley, La Jolla Playhouse Artistic Director - Downstage Center interview at American Theatre Wing.org, October 2007