Press Releases

November 12, 2024
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Projects for the 2024 DNA New Work Series

October 31, 2024
La Jolla Playhouse Announces The Joan Jacobs 2025/2026 Season

September 25, 2024
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Departure of Artistic Director Christopher Ashley in 2026

August 28, 2024
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for Primary Trust

August 22, 2024
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Projects for 2024 Latinx New Play Festival

August 14, 2024
La Jolla Playhouse’s 17th Annual Innovation Night to Take Place on October 21

August 8, 2024
La Jolla Playhouse’s 2025 Without Walls (WOW) Festival Returns to UC San Diego, Running April 24 – 27, 2025

July 18, 2024
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Complete Cast and Creative Team for Velour: A Drag Spectacular

May 18, 2024
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for Derecho

April 25, 2024
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for Season Opener: The Ballad of Johnny and June

April 1, 2024
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Full Programming for 2024 WOW Festival

March 26, 2024
La Jolla Playhouse’s 2024 Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour, Abeba in the Tall Grass, to Tour Schools March – April, with Free Public Performances at 2024 WOW Festival

March 5, 2024
La Jolla Playhouse’s Annual Gala to Take Place March 24, Co-Chaired by Lynelle Lynch and Randy Camp

February 29, 2024
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Initial Programming for 2024 WOW Festival

February 6, 2024
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Eric Keen-Louie as Artistic Producing Director

January 5, 2024
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for Redwood

November 15, 2023
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Projects for 2023 DNA New Work Series

October 31, 2023
La Jolla Playhouse Announces 2024/25 Season

October 5, 2023
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for Babbitt

October 3, 2023
La Jolla Playhouse’s 2024 Without Walls (WOW) Festival Comes Full Circle, Returning to UC San Diego April 4 – 7, 2024

August 25, 2023
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for SUMO

July 25, 2023
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Projects for 2023 Latinx New Play Festival

July 19, 2023
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical

June 8, 2023
La Jolla Playhouse’s 16th Annual Innovation Night to Take Place on October 2

June 6, 2023
La Jolla Playhouse’s Is It Thursday Yet? to Premiere July 11 – August 6

April 20, 2023
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for World Premiere of Love All

March 24, 2023
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Complete Programming for 2023 Without Walls (WOW) Festival

March 21, 2023
La Jolla Playhouse Announces La Lucha, New Without Walls (WOW) Project from Acclaimed Immersive Artist David Israel Reynoso / Optika Moderna, Presented in Partnership with Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

March 18, 2023
La Jolla Playhouse’s 2023 Gala to Take Place on March 18, Co-Chaired by Debby Jacobs and Kay Gurtin

March 15, 2023
La Jolla Playhouse’s 2023 Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour: Jin vs. the Beach to Tour Schools March – April, with Free Public Performances at 2023 WOW Festival

March 9, 2023
La Jolla Playhouse Extends Run of World-Premiere Musical The Outsiders Due to Popular Demand

March 2, 2023
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Initial Projects for 2023 Without Walls (WOW) Festival

February 7, 2023
La Jolla Playhouse to Host Latinx New Play Festival October 27 – 29

January 13, 2023
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Recipient of 2023/2024 Director Fellowship

January 12, 2023
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Final Production of 2023/24 Season: Redwood, World-Premiere Musical Featuring Tony Award-winning Broadway Icon Idina Menzel

January 5, 2023
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for The Outsiders

November 30, 2022
La Jolla Playhouse Announces 2023/2024 Season

November 2, 2022
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Projects for 2022 DNA New Work Series

October 10, 2022
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for As You Like It

September 20, 2022
La Jolla Playhouse’s 15th Annual Innovation Night to Take Place on October 3rd

September 9, 2022
La Jolla Playhouse’s Production of Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord to run September 20 – October 16

August 10, 2022
La Jolla Playhouse Names Announces Cast and Creative Team for Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes)

July 5, 2022
La Jolla Playhouse Names Announces Cast and Creative Team for World Premiere of Here There Are Blueberries

June 30, 2022
La Jolla Playhouse Names Common Ground Theatre as 2022/2023 Theatre-in-Residence

June 29, 2022
La Jolla Playhouse’s 2023 Without Walls (WOW) Festival to Take Place at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park April 27 – 30, 2023

June 3, 2022
La Jolla Playhouse Presents The Bengsons’ Sovereignty Hymns

May 4, 2022
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for 2022/2023 Season Opener: Lempicka

April 8, 2022
La Jolla Playhouse Announces New Fellowship for BIPOC Directors and Stage Managers

April 1, 2022
La Jolla Playhouse’s 2022 Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour: HOOPLA! to tour schools throughout April, plus FREE public performances at WOW Festival

March 7, 2022
La Jolla Playhouse Announces 2022/2023 Season

March 4, 2022
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Complete Roster for 2022 Without Walls (WOW) Festival at ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station, April 21 – 24

January 25, 2022
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Initial Projects for 2022 Without Walls (WOW) Festival at ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station, April 21 – 24

January 19, 2022
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast for World Premiere of Bhangin’ It: A Bangin’ New Musical

December 20, 2021
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Creative Team for World Premiere of Bhangin’ It: A Bangin’ New Musical

December 2, 2021
La Jolla Playhouse’s 2022 Gala to Take Place on March 19, Co-Chaired by Debby Jacobs and Kay Gurtin

October 14, 2021
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for World-Premiere of to the yellow house

September 9, 2021
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for World-Premiere Season Opener: The Garden

August 19, 2021
La Jolla Playhouse’s Eric Keen-Louie Appointed to New Role of Executive Producer

August 6, 2021
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Projects for Pop-Up WOW

July 8, 2021
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Projects for 2021 DNA New Work Series

July 6, 2021
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Special Engagement of New Show by Acclaimed Comedian Hasan Minhaj

June 16, 2021
Save the Date: La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls (WOW) Festival Returns to ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station, Running April 21-24, 2022

June 1, 2021
La Jolla Playhouse Returns to Live Theatre with Enticing In-Person Projects

April 19, 2021
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Leadership for New Department of Learning and Engagement

April 5, 2021
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for 2021 Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour: Pick Me Last

October 6, 2020
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Five New Digital Without Walls (WOW) Projects

September 30, 2020
La Jolla Playhouse’s Annual Innovation Night To Take Place Virtually on October 14

August 11, 2020
La Jolla Playhouse Announces New Digital WOW Projects by Marike Splint, Animal Cracker Conspiracy

July 9, 2020
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast for Digital Without Walls (WOW) Production of The Wizards of Oakwood Drive, a Fun Interactive Performance for Kids

July 7, 2020
La Jolla Playhouse Offers Fun, Interactive Online Education Programs for Students, Families and Educators This Summer

May 20, 2020
La Jolla Playhouse Announces New Digital Without Walls (WOW) Projects by Internationally Renowned Artists: Gob Squad, Culture Clash and Tom Salamon

April 17, 2020
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Inventive Series of World-Premiere, Digital Without Walls (WOW) Productions

March 31, 2020
La Jolla Playhouse Launches Online Content Programs, Bringing the Playhouse to Patrons While Theatres are Dark

February 24, 2020
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Lead Casting for 2020/2021 Season Production of Heidi Schreck’s Acclaimed Play: What the Constitution Means to Me

January 31, 2020
La Jolla Playhouse Launches Annual Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour: Emily Driver’s Great Race Through Time and Space 

January 9, 2020
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Complete Cast and Creative Team for Fly

December 17, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Three-Time Tony Award Winner Andy Blankenbuehler (Hamilton, Bandstand, In the Heights) and Stephanie Klemons (Hamilton, In the Heights) as co-choreographers for upcoming musical Fly

November 20, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Announces 2020/2021 Season

October 31, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for Lauren Yee’s Cambodian Rock Band

October 16, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Announces New Musical Lempicka to Lead off 2020/2021 Season, Prior to a Broadway Run

October 3, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast for the Staged Concert Performance of Playhouse-born Musical The Who’s Tommy, Featuring Several Original Broadway Company Members

September 17, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Announces One-Night-Only, Staged Concert Performance of Playhouse-Born Musical The Who’s Tommy

August 16, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for Hilarious New Musical Kiss My Aztec!

August 15, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Complete Programming for 2019 Without Walls Festival

July 15, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for World Premiere of The Coast Starlight

July 12, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse to Present Readings of Two New Plays Developed Through Military Outreach Programs

June 19, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Establishes the Sheri L. Jamieson New Work Development Fund

June 6, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for World Premiere of The Luckiest

June 3, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Major Endowment Gift Designating Christopher Ashley as The Rich Family Artistic Director of La Jolla Playhouse

May 30, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Names National Disability Theatre (NDT) Co-Executive Directors Talleri A. McRae and Mickey Rowe as 2019/2020 Artists-in-Residence

May 10, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Initial Programming for 2019 Without Walls (WOW) Festival at Arts District Liberty Station

May 8, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for World Premiere of Put Your House in Order

April 17, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Projects for 2019 DNA New Work Series

April 5, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Continues Popular Summer Theatre Workshops for Young Theatre Lovers

April 3, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse and UC San Diego Partner on New Program to Offer Joint Commission to Each Graduating MFA Playwright

March 28, 2019
Save the Date: La Jolla Playhouse 2019 Without Walls (WOW) Festival to Take Place October 17-20 at Arts District Liberty Station

March 21, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse and Educational Theatre Association Partner Again for Second Year of JumpStart Theatre

February 27, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Announced Second Extension for World-Premiere Musical Diana

February 27, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Gala to Take Place on March 23, Co-Chaired by Joan Jacobs, Debby Jacobs and Lindsey Jacobs

January 31, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for 2019 Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour: Light Years Away

January 23, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Final Two Productions and Run Dates for 2019/2020 Season

January 8, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Full Cast and Creative Team for World Premiere of Diana

December 3, 2018
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Extension for World-Premiere Musical Diana

November 27, 2018
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Four Potent Productions for 2019/2020 Season

October 22, 2018
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for World Premiere of The Year to Come

September 27, 2018
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Jeanna de Waal to Portray Title Role in World-Premiere Musical Diana

September 13, 2018
Cast and Creative Team Announced for La Jolla Playhouse’s Hundred Days

August 21, 2018
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Appointment of Eric Keen-Louie as Producing Director Following Departure of Associate Artistic Director Jaime Castañeda

August 6, 2018
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Julia B. Foster as Director of Philanthropy

July 27, 2018
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for World Premiere of Seize the King

June 12, 2018
La Jolla Playhouse Names Backyard Renaissance as 2018/2019 Resident Theatre Company

May 31, 2018
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for Martyna Majok’s Queens

May 1, 2018
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Broadway-Seasoned Cast and Creative Team for Next World-Premiere of The Squirrels

April 26, 2018
La Jolla Playhouse’s Acclaimed Summer Workshops for Young Theatre Lovers Returns with Enriched Programming for Conservatory Students

April 24, 2018
La Jolla Playhouse Names Mike Lew and Rehana Lew Mirza 2018 Artists-in-Residence

April 18, 2018
Debby Buchholz Appointed Managing Director of La Jolla Playhouse

March 27, 2018
La Jolla Playhouse Announces World Premiere of Naomi Iizuka’s What Happens Next as Latest Without Walls Production

March 7, 2018
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Projects for 2018 DNA New Work Series

March 6, 2018
La Jolla Playhouse Gala on March 17 to Celebrate Institution’s Extraordinary Moment on Broadway

February 16, 2018
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Hundred Days, The Bengsons’ “Luminous Musical Memoir,” as Final Production of 2018/2019 Season

January 24, 2018
La Jolla Playhouse Partners With Educational Theatre Association for JumpStart Theatre

January 22, 2018
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for 2018 Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour 2018: Home of the Brave

January 11, 2018
SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical Arrives on Broadway this Spring, Marking Sixth Playhouse-Born Show on Great White Way This Season

December 18, 2017
La Jolla Playhouse Announces World-Premiere Musical: Diana To Be Part of 2018/2019 Season

December 8, 2017
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for Bekah Brunstetter’s The Cake

November 17, 2017
La Jolla Playhouse Presents Special Engagement of Mike Birbiglia’s The New One

November 14, 2017
La Jolla Playhouse Announces New Works by Four Potent Playwrights for 2018/2019 Season

September 20, 2017
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative Team for SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical