La Jolla Playhouse Extends Run Dates for Select 2015-16 Shows, Including New Musical from Robert Lopez & Kristen-Anderson Lopez

Due to the incredible demand for subscriptions to the 2015/2016 season, La Jolla Playhouse announces a week-long extension for its first two season productions: Come from Away, a world-premiere musical written and composed by David Hein and Irene Sankoff, directed by Playhouse Artistic Director Christopher Ashley, as well as for Up Here, a world-premiere musical comedy directed by Alex Timbers (Playhouse's Peter and the Starcatchers), featuring book, music and lyrics by the husband-and-wife team of Robert Lopez (The Book of Mormon, Avenue Q) and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, who took home the Academy and Grammy Awards for Best Song with their mega-hit "Let It Go" from the Disney animated film Frozen. Come from Away will now run May 29 - July 5 in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre, and Up Here will now run July 28 - September 6 in the Mandell Weiss Theatre.

"Extending our first two productions to accommodate more subscribers truly demonstrates our audiences' passion for new work," said Ashley. "It is tremendously gratifying to see this overwhelming response to our entire 2015/16 season - a season comprised of all new plays and musicals that embody the Playhouse's adventurous spirit, reaffirming the Playhouse's position as the place to see what's new and next in American Theatre."

In addition to Come from Away and Up Here, the Playhouse's 2015/2016 season will feature the world premiere of Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin (September 8 - October 4), by Michael Benjamin Washington (Memphis), directed by Phylicia Rashad (The Cosby Show); Healing Wars (September 29 - October 25; centrepiece of the Playhouse's second Without Walls Festival on October 9 - 11), conceived, directed and choreographed by Liz Lerman; Indecent (November 13 - December 10), a world-premiere play co-created by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive) and director Rebecca Taichman (Playhouse's Sleeping Beauty Wakes, Milk Like Sugar); and Guards at the Taj (February 2 - 28, 2016), by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo), directed by Playhouse Associate Artistic Director Jaime Castañeda.

Tickets to the 2015/2016 season are available only through a subscription package purchase by calling (858) 550-1010 or online at LaJollaPlayhouse.org.

The Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse is internationally-renowned for creating some of the most exciting and adventurous work in American theatre, through its new play development initiatives, its innovative Without Walls series, artist residencies and commissions, including BD Wong, Daniel Beatty and Kirsten Greenidge. Currently led by Artistic Director Christopher Ashley and Managing Director Michael S. Rosenberg, the Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer, and reborn in 1983 under the artistic leadership of Des McAnuff, La Jolla Playhouse has had 25 productions transfer to Broadway, garnering 35 Tony Awards, among them Jersey Boys, Memphis, The Who's Tommy, Big River, as well as Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays and the Pulitzer Prize-winning I Am My Own Wife, both fostered as part of the Playhouse's Page To Stage Program. Visit LaJollaPlayhouse.org.