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La Jolla Playhouse Presents World Premiere Of Doug Wright's CREDITORS 9/29-10/25
by BWW News Desk - Sep 29, 2009


La Jolla Playhouse presents the world premiere of Creditors, adapted and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winner Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife) from the play by August Strindberg. A La Jolla Playhouse commission, Creditors runs September 29 ? October 25 in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre.

La Jolla Playhouse Announces Complete Cast of BONNIE & CLYDE, Sands & Osnes To Star
by Gabrielle Sierra - Sep 25, 2009


La Jolla Playhouse is pleased to announce the complete cast of its world-premiere musical Bonnie & Clyde, music by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel), lyrics by Tony Award-winner Don Black (Sunset Boulevard, Song and Dance), book by Ivan Menchell (The Cemetery Club, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), with direction and musical staging by Jeff Calhoun (Deaf West's Big River and Pippin, Grease!), playing November 10 - December 20, 2009 in the Playhouse's Mandell Weiss Theatre.

La Jolla Playhouse Presents World Premiere Of Doug Wright's CREDITORS 9/29-10/25
by Reynard Loki - Sep 1, 2009


La Jolla Playhouse presents the world premiere of Creditors, adapted and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winner Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife) from the play by August Strindberg. A La Jolla Playhouse commission, Creditors runs September 29 ? October 25 in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre.

Native Voices At The Autry Supports And Inspires Native American Playwrights Thr
by Reynard Loki - May 4, 2009


Native Voices at the Autry continues its cycle of play development with its annual Playwrights Retreat and Festival of New Plays featuring top theater professionals serving as mentors to established and aspiring Native American playwrights. The program greatly increases the field of Native writers and brings greater visibility to Native theater.

Joy Harjo Performs WINGS OF NIGHT SKY 3/12- 3/29
by BWW News Desk - Mar 12, 2009


Native Voices at the Autry proudly presents the world premiere of Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light by musician, poet, songwriter, and playwright Joy Harjo (Mvskoke). The play is a deeply compelling journey of struggle, displacement, self-discovery, and healing. Invoking spoken word, storytelling, music, and song, Harjo takes us on a wild theatrical ride where she tells it like it is with spirit and a mean jazz sax. An allegorical work of tremendous power, Wings demonstrates how theater and art can bring life full circle.

Native Voices at the Autry Presents Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light Mar. 12-29
by BWW News Desk - Mar 12, 2009


Native Voices at the Autry proudly presents the world premiere of Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light by musician, poet, songwriter, and playwright Joy Harjo (Mvskoke). The play is a deeply compelling journey of struggle, displacement, self-discovery, and healing. Invoking spoken word, storytelling, music, and song, Harjo takes us on a wild theatrical ride where she tells it like it is with spirit and a mean jazz sax. An allegorical work of tremendous power, Wings demonstrates how theater and art can bring life full circle.

Joy Harjo Performs WINGS OF NIGHT SKY 3/12- 3/29
by Gabrielle Sierra - Mar 3, 2009


Native Voices at the Autry proudly presents the world premiere of Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light by musician, poet, songwriter, and playwright Joy Harjo (Mvskoke). The play is a deeply compelling journey of struggle, displacement, self-discovery, and healing. Invoking spoken word, storytelling, music, and song, Harjo takes us on a wild theatrical ride where she tells it like it is with spirit and a mean jazz sax. An allegorical work of tremendous power, Wings demonstrates how theater and art can bring life full circle.

Native Voices at the Autry Presents Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light Mar. 12-29
by Robert Diamond - Feb 9, 2009


Native Voices at the Autry proudly presents the world premiere of Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light by musician, poet, songwriter, and playwright Joy Harjo (Mvskoke). The play is a deeply compelling journey of struggle, displacement, self-discovery, and healing. Invoking spoken word, storytelling, music, and song, Harjo takes us on a wild theatrical ride where she tells it like it is with spirit and a mean jazz sax. An allegorical work of tremendous power, Wings demonstrates how theater and art can bring life full circle.

Native Voices Premiere WINGS OF NIGHT SKY By Joy Harjo
by Gabrielle Sierra - Feb 9, 2009


Native Voices at the Autry proudly presents the world premiere of Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light by musician, poet, songwriter, and playwright Joy Harjo (Mvskoke). The play is a deeply compelling journey of struggle, displacement, self-discovery, and healing. Invoking spoken word, storytelling, music, and song, Harjo takes us on a wild theatrical ride where she tells it like it is with spirit and a mean jazz sax. An allegorical work of tremendous power, Wings demonstrates how theater and art can bring life full circle.

Cast Announced for Premiere of Charles Busch's The Third Story at La Jolla Playhouse; Andress to Direct
by Robert Diamond - Aug 19, 2008


The cast and creative team have been assembled for the world premiere of the imaginative, hilarious comic drama The Third Story, written by Charles Busch and directed by Carl Andress.

La Jolla Playhouse Presents Woodard's 'The Night Watcher'
by BWW News Desk - Jun 6, 2008


La Jolla Playhouse is proud to welcome back Charlayne Woodard with a moving new one-woman play 'The Night Watcher' directed by Robert Egan.

La Jolla Playhouse Announces 2007/8 Season; No Sheik Show
by BWW News Desk - Feb 7, 2007


La Jolla Playhouse Artistic Director Des McAnuff is proud to announce the complete line-up of shows in the compelling 2007/2008 season.

La Jolla Playhouse and Macy's to Fight Illiteracy
by BWW News Desk - Jan 10, 2007


La Jolla Playhouse and Macy's join forces for the POP Tour Literacy Drive, a book drive benefiting San Diego's Monarch School.

Will Power's 'Honey Bo' to Tour San Diego-Area Schools
by BWW News Desk - Dec 18, 2006


La Jolla Playhouse will once again take theatre to the schools of San Diego with its latest incarnation of the Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour: Honey Bo and the Gold Mine

La Jolla and San Diego Opera Receive Irvine Grants
by BWW News Desk - Aug 11, 2006


La Jolla Playhouse and San Diego Opera have been announced as recipients of two generous, newly instituted grants from The James Irvine Foundation

Des McAnuff to Depart from La Jolla Playhouse in 2007
by BWW News Desk - Jun 21, 2006


Ralph Bryan, President of the Board of Trustees of La Jolla Playhouse today announced that Artistic Director Des McAnuff will not be renewing his contract, scheduled to expire in 2007.

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