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Specialties
La Jolla Playhouse advances theatre as an art form and as a vital social, moral and political platform by providing unfettered creative opportunities for the leading artists of today and tomorrow. With our youthful spirit and eclectic, artist-driven approach we will continue to cultivate a local and national following with an insatiable appetite for audacious and diverse work.
In the future, San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse will be considered singularly indispensable to the worldwide theatre landscape as we become a permanent safe harbor for the unsafe and surprising. The day will come when it will be essential to enter the La Jolla Playhouse village in order to get a glimpse of what is about to happen in American theatre.
History
Established in 1947.
La Jolla Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer, and was revived in 1983 under the leadership of Des McAnuff, who served as Artistic Director from 1983 to 1994. McAnuff was succeeded by Michael Greif, who served as Artistic Director from 1995 to 1999. The theatre is currently led by Artistic Director Christopher Ashley and Managing Director Michael S. Rosenberg.
The Playhouse is a not-for-profit, professional theatre in residence situated on the magnificent campus of the University of California, San Diego. La Jolla Playhouse is located on the corner of La Jolla Village Drive and Torrey Pines Road in La Jolla, California.
La Jolla Playhouse is supported, in part, by grants from the City of San Diego, under a program managed by the Commission for Arts and Culture; Supervisor Pam Slater-Price and the County of San Diego and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Meet the Manager
Christoper A.
Manager
Since graduating cum laude from Yale University in 1986, Mr. Ashley has directed over 60 productions, including Broadway musical productions All Shook Up (Palace Theatre 2005, national tour 2006) and The Rocky Horror Show (2001 Tony Award, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations — Best Direction of a Musical, Circle in the Square Theatre).
Mr. Ashley has also been the recipient of the Princess Grace Award statuette, the Drama League Director Fellowship and an NEA/TCG Director Fellowship. He also directed the feature film of Jeffrey, released by Orion Classics, and the American Playhouse production of Blown Sideways Through Life for PBS.
This season, Christopher Ashley will be directing Restoration, a La Jolla Playhouse Commission, along with The Big Time, a world première Musical Comedy.
La Jolla Playhouse also recommends
Jai By Wolfgang Puck — CLOSED
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reviews
Asian Fusion
Christoper A. says,
«Jai provides La Jolla Playhouse patrons with a world-class dining experience that fuses rich Asian flavor with contemporary culinary trends.»