Skip to main content
My Shows
News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

La Jolla Playhouse's THE RECIPE Extends Through March 29

This makes The Recipe one of the longest running straight plays in Playhouse history.

By:
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.

La Jolla Playhouse is a place where artists and audiences come together to create what’s new and next in the American theatre, from Tony Award-winning productions to imaginative programs for young audiences, to interactive experiences outside our theatre walls. Founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer, the Playhouse is internationally renowned for the development of new plays and musicals, including mounting 130 world premieres, commissioning 70 new works, and sending 37 productions to Broadway, garnering a total of 42 Tony Awards, as well as the 1993 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre.

Click Here to Get Tickets
More on OB Playhouse
Recent Articles
La Jolla Playhouse’s WOW FESTIVAL Transforms UCSD Into a Playground of Immersive Performances
La Jolla Playhouse’s WOW FESTIVAL Transforms UCSD Into a Playground of Immersive Performances
4/23/2026
Need more San Diego Theatre News in your life?
Sign up for all the news on the Summer season, discounts & more...


BroadwayWorld TV


BEGIN AGAIN in San Diego BEGIN AGAIN
The Old Globe (9/06-10/11)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in San Diego Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Moonlight Amphitheatre (7/08-7/25)
Scapin in San Diego Scapin
North Coast Repertory (7/22-8/16) PHOTOS
John Cameron Mitchell: Hedwig 25th Anniversary Movie Tour in San Diego John Cameron Mitchell: Hedwig 25th Anniversary Movie Tour
The Observatory North Park (9/20-9/20)
Disney FROZEN The Broadway Musical in San Diego Disney FROZEN The Broadway Musical
OLD TOWN TEMECULA COMMUNITY THEATER (7/17-8/02)
LITVAKdance Presents: Dancing Outdoors: Take 4 Celebrating Diverse Forms in San Diego LITVAKdance Presents: Dancing Outdoors: Take 4 Celebrating Diverse Forms
ICA San Diego North Campus (8/01-8/01)
Mamma Mia! in San Diego Mamma Mia!
Civic Theatre- San Diego (6/15-6/20)
HELL’S KITCHEN in San Diego HELL’S KITCHEN
San Diego Civic Theatre (8/11-8/16)
Ocean Pulse: Rhythm of the Coast in San Diego Ocean Pulse: Rhythm of the Coast
Pacific Wave Theater (7/10-8/20)
Scapin  in San Diego Scapin
North Coast Repertory Theatre (7/22-8/16) PHOTOS