La Jolla Playhouse Extends SIDEWAYS Through 8/25

Due to popular demand, La Jolla Playhouse announces a week-long extension for the run of its upcoming production of Sideways, by Rex Pickett, directed by Playhouse Director Emeritus Des McAnuff (Jersey Boys, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots). The show will now run in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre July 16 through August 25.

"Rehearsals for Sideways have only just begun but the excitement around this show is highly palpable," said Playhouse Artistic Director Christopher Ashley. "It's extremely gratifying that audiences are as eager to experience this touching and funny piece as we are to share it with them."

Sideways follows two friends - Miles, a frustrated novelist; and Jack, a no-name TV actor and director - and their journey across the Santa Ynez Valley wine country. During one last blowout road trip before Jack is to be married, the two men run tangle-footed into their midlife crises, all the while exploring this once little-known central California wine region. This new play, directed by Playhouse Director Emeritus Des McAnuff (Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Jersey Boys) and adapted by UC San Diego graduate Rex Pickett from his own novel, takes audiences on what the Los Angeles Times called a hilarious "oenophilial odyssey."

Tickets for the added week of Sideways are on sale now and are available by calling The Playhouse Patron Services department at (858) 550-1010or online at LaJollaPlayhouse.org.

The nationally acclaimed, Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse is known for its tradition of creating the most exciting and adventurous new work in regional theatre. Founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer, The Playhouse is considered one of the most well-respected not-for-profit theatres in the country. Numerous Playhouse productions have moved to Broadway, including the currently-running hit Jersey Boys, as well as Big River, The Who's Tommy, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, A Walk in the Woods, Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays, the Pulitzer Prize-winning I Am My Own Wife, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Farnsworth Invention, 33 Variations, Memphis, Bonnie & Clyde, Chaplin: The Musical, Peter and the Starcatcher and Hands on a Hardbody. Located on the UC San Diego campus, La Jolla Playhouse is made up of three primary performance spaces: the Mandell Weiss Theatre, the Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre, and the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Center for La Jolla Playhouse, a state-of-the-Art Theatre complex which features the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre. La Jolla Playhouse is led by Artistic Director Christopher Ashley and Managing Director Michael S. Rosenberg.

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