page_title: La Jolla Playhouse
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: La Jolla Playhouse / Background
caption_attribution_description: Torrey Pines, San Diego, CA, USA
context_page_description: La Jolla Playhouse is a not-for-profit, professional theatre on the campus of the University of California San Diego.
context_section_description: La Jolla Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Mel Ferrer. In 1983, it was revived under the leadership of Des McAnuff. Since then, the Playhouse's repertoire has included eighty-four 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 Regional Theatre. It is supported, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the City of San Diego, and the County of San Diego.  It was announced on April 10, 2007 that Christopher Ashley would succeed McAnuff as Artistic Director.
  La Jolla Playhouse provides a number of educational opportunities for children, teens, and adults interested in theatre arts, both as performers and behind-the-scenes. In addition, the Performance Outreach Program (POP Tour) annually brings a professional, world-premiere production to schools, libraries, and community centers throughout San Diego. There are additional summer theater opportunities through the La Jolla Playhouse Conservatory, YP@LJP summer camps, student matinees, and many other in-school workshops and classes.
  Among the productions that originated at the Playhouse before finding success on Broadway are The Who's Tommy, Matthew Broderick's revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Jane Eyre,  Dracula, the Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Cry Baby, Bonnie and Clyde, The Pulitzer Prize-winning I Am My Own Wife, 700 Sundays, Jersey Boys, Memphis, Peter and the Starcatcher, Chaplin, Hands on a Hardbody, Des McAnuff's revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, Zhivago and Big River .
caption: Joan and Irwin Jacobs Center for La Jolla Playhouse
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