# La Jolla Playhouse production history

The La Jolla Playhouse is an American nonprofit, professional theater-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 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 E. 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 A. 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 Three 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 A. 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 and 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 of Virtue and Happiness 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: A New Musical 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 Theatre's 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 and 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 Clash's 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 by Peter Parnell, music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, novel by Victor Hugo

## 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 Alegría Hudes, music by Erin McKeown, lyrics by Quiara Alegría 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
* Kill Local – by Mat Smart
* Wild Goose Dreams – by Hansol Jung
* SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical – book by Colman Domingo, Robert Cary, and Des McAnuff
* Mike Birbiglia: The New One – by Mike Birbiglia
* The Cake – by Bekah Brunstetter
* Home of the Brave – by Lee Cataluna

## 2018/19

* The Squirrels by Robert Askins
* Queens by Martyna Majok
* Seize the King by Will Power
* Hundred Days by The Bengsons and Sarah Gancher
* The Year to Come by Lindsay Ferrentino
* Diana by Joe DiPietro, music and lyrics by David Bryan

## 2019/20

* Put Your House in Order by Ike Holter
* The Luckiest by Melissa Ross
* The Coast Starlight by Keith Bunin
* Kiss My Aztec! by John Leguizamo and Tony Taccone, music by Benjamin Velez, lyrics by David Kamp, Benjamin Velez, and John Leguizamo
* Cambodian Rock Band by Lauren Yee
* FLY by Rajiv Joseph, music by Bill Sherman, lyrics by Kirsten Childs and Rajiv Joseph, based on the book Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie

## 2021/22

* The Garden by Charlayne Woodard
* To The Yellow House by Kimber Lee
* Bhangin' It: A Bangin' New Musical by Mike Lew and Rehana Lew Mirza, music and lyrics by Sam Willmott

## 2022/23

* Lempicka by Carson Kreitzer and Matt Gould
* Here There Are Blueberries by Moises Kaufman and Amanda Gronich
* Fandango for Butterflies (And Coyotes) by Andrea Thome, music by Sinuhe Padilla
* Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord by Kristina Wong
* As You Like It by William Shakespeare
* The Outsiders by Adam Rapp, music and lyrics by Jamestown Revival, based on the novel by S.E. Hinton

## 2023/24

* Love All by Anna Deveare Smith
* Is It Thursday Yet? by Jenn Freeman and Sonya Tayeh, composed by Holland Andrews
* The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical by Joe Iconis and Gregory S. Moss, music and lyrics by Joe Iconis
* SUMO by Lisa Sanaye Dring
* Babbitt by Joe DiPietro, based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis
* Redwood by Tina Landau, music by Kate Diaz, lyrics by Kate Diaz and Tina Landau

## 2024/25

* The Ballad of Johnny and June by Des McAnuff and Robert Cary with music by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash
* Derecho by Noelle Viñas
* Velour: A Drag Spectacular by Sasha Velour and Moises Kaufman
* Primary Trust by Eboni Booth
* Your Local Theater Presents: A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, Again by Anna Ouyang Moench
* 3 Summers of Lincoln by Joe DiPietro, lyrics by Daniel J. Watts and Joe DiPietro, music by Crystal Monee Hall