La Jolla Playhouse production history

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.

1947

*"Angel Street" - by Patrick Hamilton
*"The Shining Hour" - by Keith Winter
*"" - 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

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 Noel 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 Russell 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 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

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 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 Coe
*"Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong" - by Randy Newman
*"" - 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 Moliere, 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 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

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

*"" - 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
*"" - 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 Moliere
*"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
*"" - by Athol Fugard
*"" - 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 Garcia 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 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

2002

*"" - 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
*"" - by David Edgar
*"700 Sundays / Billy Crystal / A Life In Progress" - by Billy Crystal

2005

*"" - 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
*"" - 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

2007-2008

*"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

2008-2009

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

External links

* [http://www.lajollaplayhouse.com/ La Jolla Playhouse official website]
* [http://cac.ca.gov/ California Arts Council]
* [http://americantheatrewing.org/downstagecenter/detail/christopher_ashley Christopher Ashley, La Jolla Playhouse Artistic Director - "Downstage Center" interview] at American Theatre Wing.org, October 2007