Educators and administrators who are currently employed at a school site within San Diego County can enjoy 30% off single ticket prices, first access to great seats renewable year after year, free parking, free exchanges and many more perks through the year. The Educator Subscription is available into the run of the first show of the season or until sold out. Subject to availability and La Jolla Playhouse ticketing terms and conditions.
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La Jolla Playhouse offers professional learning opportunities for educators throughout the school year. To be added to our teacher mailing list please email [email protected] with your name, school, grades/subjects you teach.
Interested in our Summer Training Series, La Jolla Playhouse Tech Theatre Summer Intensive for Theatre Educators? Please click here to add your name to our interest list to be notified first of our 2026 dates. (Tentatively scheduled for June 22-26, 2026)
One of La Jolla Playhouse’s signature Education programs, the Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour is an annual world-premiere, Playhouse-commissioned production that brings the magic of theatre to San Diego classrooms. Launched in 1987, the POP Tour can be accessed by schools, libraries and community centers. Prior to each performance, a Playhouse teaching artist visits each school, either in person or virtually, to engage students in an interactive workshop that explores issues and themes at the core of the play. The Playhouse also provides schools with an interactive standards-based engagement guide that enables educators to integrate the play into their curriculum, including exciting interviews with the cast and the creative team. Ideal for students in grades 3 – 6.
Colorín, Colorado
By Mabelle Reynoso
Directed by Tori Rice
Touring schools in March and April 2026
Public performances at La Jolla Playhouse’s WOW Festival at UCSD on April 25 and 26, 2026
Georgie, a shy fourth-grader with a hidden talent for guitar, panics when asked to read aloud and ends up in the principal’s office, sparking an unexpected friendship with the fearless and ever-curious Inez. While Georgie worries about her grandfather in the hospital, she discovers an old story he once wrote: the magical tale of two fantastical creatures: Goyo and Gato. With help from her new BFF Inez, Georgie finds the courage to face her reading challenges and brings the story to life — just in time for the Festival de Primavera. In the end, talents are discovered, a family bond is deepened, and the story finds its perfect ending: ¡Colorín, Colorado, este cuento se ha acabado.
The Playhouse offers special student matinees of selected mainstage productions throughout the school year. Virtual Study guides, post-performance workshops and post-show talkbacks are available to prepare students for these productions. Staff development workshops are also offered to teachers prior to their school’s participation in the student matinee.
For more information on upcoming student matinees, click here.
For each of our mainstage shows, La Jolla Playhouse offers an Observership experience with the main to goal to provide exposure to career pathways in theatre production to teenagers and young adults who may previously not have had an exposure or full understanding of potential opportunities to work in professional theatre production.
Each observership consists of: arriving at La Jolla Playhouse at 3:30 pm; touring all production spaces and meeting with our production staff to learn about their jobs; observing the tech process for the current show being rehearsed; dinner; and one ticket per participant to the preview performance of the show that evening. Each group is limited to a maximum of 20 participants including any chaperones for any guests under 18. All groups with any guest under 18 years old must have at least one adult chaperone.
Interest forms are accepted on a rolling basis as long as space is available. Groups will be notified if they are chosen for an observership by La Jolla Playhouse staff. Observerships are a free experience for your group made possible thanks to the generosity of our individual, corporate and government funders. We ask participants to complete a survey onsite regarding their experience and appreciate notes and photos to share with funders.
To express interest in bringing a group for our 26/27 season, please fill out this form and our team will get in touch with you.
Enjoy world premiere plays from 8 amazing playwrights! These scripts can be performed and read aloud anywhere.
La Jolla Playhouse’s Education team has provided standards-based lesson plans as well as fun theatre games and exercises that are easily played virtually. These are the same exercises that we use to build ensemble and acting skills in our classrooms for kids and adults!
The following recorded performances from our Digital WOW series are a great way for high school-age students to enjoy theatre. Plus, they’re all FREE!
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