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Part clowning, part surreal social experiment, the theatre is transformed into a playground of spontaneity, all shaped in real time by the audience. The show...
La Jolla Playhouse
2910 La Jolla Village DrLa Jolla, CA 92093
Upcoming Shows
The Family Album
Singer-songwriter Mia Bing has been hustling and is desperate to break through in the music industry. Just as she receives the call that could change...
Review: OUT WITH A BANG Proves Growing Older is not for Sissies
Out With a Bang Playwright Tony Pasqualini started writing it when he turned the dreaded 70 while feeling lucky to keep working in a profession he loves, married for forty years to the same loving woman, with two adult kids that live nearby.…
Review: THE REAL LADY MACBETH World Premiere at The Actors Company
The intense production will pull into its spell thanks to the astonishingly real characters brought to life by four amazing actors who authentically portray these historical druids on the darkened and often spooky, mist-filled set.…
Review: OPENING NIGHT AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL: THE BEST OF BROADWAY at Hollywood Bowl
Every inch a musical theater geek's night to remember, the evening featured quips from host Billy Crystal, the rigor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra conducted by Thomas Wilkins, a chorus of wonderful singer-dancers and an eye-popping featured performer lineup.…
Review: TREASURE ISLAND at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Review: Even if you leave wanting a few more cannon blasts from Theatricum Botanicum's 2026 adaptation of TREASURE ISLAND, you'll be hard-pressed to find a more beautiful place to spend a summer evening.…
Review: THE FIRST GENTLEMAN World Premiere Musical at Torrance Theatre Company
Director Glenn Kelman is to be commended for taking on the challenge of coordinating twenty cast members moving scenery and set pieces into place to create 22 set changes in 14 locations on such a small stage, as well as setting the timing of each Ameri-News video projection to forward the story. An…
Review: ROMEO AND JULIET at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Casting high school aged teen-agers can be a trickier needle to thread than one might think. Two actors who are still in high school wrestling down the spectrum of emotions, growth journeys and heartbreak of Shakespeare’s tale is no small achievement. Asher Hagler and Quinnlyn Scheppner make thei…
Review: ANGRY, RAUCOUS AND SHAMELESSLY GORGEOUS at Geffen Playhouse
With complex characterizations, whip-smart dialogue, and vibrant, shrewd performances, the four women at the center of the show are alive from the second the lights go up.…
Review: AMAZING GRAVES Sets Two Short Plays Inside the Same Cemetery
Have you ever wondered what really goes on in cemeteries when memories are shared with those seen and unseen at grave sites? Then head on over to see two, funny and life-affirming plays in this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival, bundled together as Amazing Graves, produced by Amanda Lynne for Neo…
Review: Diana Varco Shares Her Journey to RISE Above Childhood Rage
It's a very well done, confrontational hour-long play at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival, but also life-affirming to know none of us are alone in the struggle for emotional maturity rather than turn to the easy crutches of overeating, alcohol abuse, drug use or unbridled sex to forget about …
Interview: Director Ellen Geer on TREASURE ISLAND at Theatricum Botanicum
BroadwayWorld spoke with director Ellen Geer about her vision for the production, what drew her to adapt it for Theatricum Botanicum, and what she hopes audiences will love about the story as much as she does.…
Past Shows
La Jolla Playhouse WOW Festival
La Jolla Playhouse’s WOW Festival is four days of “fearless and fun activations that electrify our creative city” (BroadwayWorld). Discover more than 20 local, national...
FeaturedAll the Men Who've Frightened Me
By Noah Diaz Directed by Kat YenA surprising story about parenthood, family and future dreams.Young married couple Ty and Nora are preparing to move into Ty’s childhood home...
The Heart
Based on "Réparer les Vivants" by Maylis de Kerangal | Book and additional lyrics by Kait KerriganMusic and Lyrics by Anne Eisendrath & Ian Eisendrath | Directed by Christopher AshleyThis breathtaking new musical...
Derecho
Some storms you can’t hide from.A series of intense storms – a “derecho” – is bearing down on an affluent Virginia neighborhood near D.C., where...
The Ballad of Johnny and June
Love is a burning thingCountry music royalty Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash remain to this day one of the most famous couples of the...
ACCOMPLICE: San Diego
- Tom Salamon, Betsy Salamon-Sufott; dir: Tom Salamon....
A Lonely Boy's Guide to Survival (And Werewolves)
Rao and Padma Makineni Play Development Center: - Ernie Nolan; dir: Michael J. Bobbitt....
POP Tour
Rao and Padma Makineni Play Development Center: - Ernie Nolan; dir: Michael J. Bobbitt....
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E=MC² Einstein The Musical Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center (7/03-7/26) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya) (10/11-10/11) |
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2026 New Works Festival Helen Borgers Theatre (5/15-9/20) |
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Jazz Vocalist Sidney Jacobs Appears at Sierra Madre Playhouse, 8/2 Sierra Madre Playhouse (8/02-8/02) |
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July Cinballera Salon - Scenes from the Great Operas Il Tabarro (7/13-7/13) |
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An Evening of Spanish Guitar with Diego García in Palos Verdes The Neighborhood Church (9/27-9/27) |
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Shrek the Musical Morgan-Wixson Theatre (6/28-7/26) |
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Tre Floyd''s Black Girl Therapy The Miracle Theater (9/19-9/19) |
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Fuerza Regida UNIQLO Field at Dodger Stadium (7/18-7/18) |
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Young Frankenstein Lewis Family Playhouse (10/16-10/25) |