La Jolla / California / United States
La Jolla Playhouse, founded in 1947 by actors Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer, is situated on the University of California San Diego Campus. The playhouse is a nonprofit, professional theatre in residence on the campus. In addition to producing six main stage productions each season, La Jolla Playhouse presents Page to Stage readings and workshops, tours to schools with an annual production, recreational acting classes in partnership with UCSD Extension Division and summer programs for young people. . The playhouse productions of classics and new plays and musicals, including 41 world premieres, 24 West Coast premieres and seven American premieres, have merited more than 300 major honors including the 1993 Tony Award as America s Outstanding Regional Theatre. From Broadway to Moscow, a long list of the playhouse s productions has gone on to stages around the world. These include Roger Miller and William Hauptman s Big River, The Who s Tommy, Lee Blessing s A Walk in the Woods, Matthew Broderick in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Randy Newman s Faust, the West Coast premiere of Rent. La Jolla Playhouse is supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; California Arts Council; the city of San Diego, under a program managed by the Commission for Arts and Culture and the county of San Diego.
