La Jolla Playhouse's THE RECIPE Extends Through March 29

Due to popular demand, La Jolla Playhouse announces a week-long extension of its world-premiere production of The Recipe, by Tony Award nominee Claudia Shear.

Based on the book Dearie by Bob Spitz, directed by Obie Award winner Lisa Peterson, the show will now run through March 29, with eight additional performances in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre. This makes The Recipe one of the longest running straight plays in Playhouse history.

The Recipe opened on February 15 to wide critical acclaim. The show stars Christina Kirk and Norbert Leo Butz, alongside Jill Abramovitz, Rami Margron, Michael Park, Ariel Shafir, Saisha Talwar and others.

Before Julia Child became the TV personality that we all know, she was a rambunctious rebel against the privileged but bland life expected of her. Directionless but driven, careening from Pasadena to New York to Washington D.C. to Ceylon and finally to Paris’s famed Cordon Bleu cooking school, she battled long odds, too-short sleeves, and her own self-doubt before finding both her calling and her true love, her husband, Paul Child. Two-time Tony Award nominee Claudia Shear and two-time Obie Award winner Lisa Peterson return to the Playhouse with The Recipe, a funny, colorful and delicious new play about the early life of an endlessly fascinating character – Julia, a girl from Pasadena – and her path from confusion to discovery, fear to strength, failure to success.