The La Jolla Playhouse is an American nonprofit, professional theater-in-residence on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. It was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Mel Ferrer.
The following is a chronological list of the productions that have been staged since its inception.
1947 Angel Street by Patrick Hamilton The Shining Hour by Keith Winter Tonight at 8.30 ... The Astonished Heart, Fumed Oak, Still Life by Noël Coward Biography by S. N. Behrman The Guardsman by Ferenc Molnár The Hasty Heart by John Patrick Dear Ruth by Norman Krasna Night Must Fall by Emlyn Williams
1948 The Male Animal by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent Rope by Patrick Hamilton Serena Blandish (The Difficulty of Getting Married) by S. N. Behrman Ultra-Marine by Peter Blackmore The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams For Love or Money by F. Hugh Herbert The First Mrs. Fraser by St. John Ervine The Road to Rome by Robert E. Sherwood Kind Lady by Edward Chodorov
1949 Petticoat Fever by Mark Reed Command Decision by William Wister Haines Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw Art and Mrs. Bottle by Benn Levy The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Light Up the Sky by Moss Hart Arrangement for Strings by Michael Clayton Hutton and Samuel Rosen Here Today by George Oppenheimer Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward
1950 Goodbye Again by Allan Scott and George Haight Clutterbuck by Benn Levy The Silver Whistle by Robert E. McEnroe Our Town by Thornton Wilder The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams Claudia by Rose Franken Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin
1951 On Borrowed Time by Paul Osborn The Petrified Forest by Robert E. Sherwood Room Service by John Murray and Allen Boretz Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge The Voice of the Turtle by John Van Druten Susan and God by Rachel Crothers Second Threshold by Philip Barry Ring Round the Moon by Jean Anouilh, translation by Christopher Fry
1952 The Lady's Not for Burning by Christopher Fry Strike a Match by Robert Smith The Corn Is Green by Emlyn Williams The Happy Time by Samuel A. Taylor Affairs of State by Louis Verneuil Season in the Sun by Wolcott Gibbs Time for Elizabeth by Groucho Marx and Norman Krasna Remains to be Seen by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse The Moon Is Blue by F. Hugh Herbert
1953 Don Juan In Hell by George Bernard Shaw Dial M for Murder by Frederick Knott You Never Can Tell by George Bernard Shaw Stalag 17 by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski The Dazzling Hour by Anna Bonacci My Three Angels by Sam and Bella Spewack Jane by S. N. Behrman, based on an original story by W. Somerset Maugham I Am a Camera by John Van Druten
1954 The Vacant Lot by Paul Streger and Berrilla Kerr The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod Sabrina Fair by Samuel A. Taylor Anniversary Waltz by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan
1955 Oh, Men! Oh, Women! by Edward Chodorov The Time of the Cuckoo by Arthur Laurents Native Uprising by D. N. Roman The Rainmaker by N. Richard Nash
1956 The Little Hut by André Roussin Pal Joey by John O'Hara, music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart Miss Julie & The Stronger by August Strindberg King of Hearts by Jean Kerr and Eleanor Brooke Bus Stop by William Inge
1957 Androcles and the Lion / The Proposal by George Bernard Shaw / Anton Chekhov Career by James Lee The Potting Shed by Graham Greene Paul and Constantine by Dario Bellini The Reluctant Debutante by William Douglas-Home
1958 Visit to a Small Planet by Gore Vidal A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller Bell, Book and Candle by John Van Druten
1959 Too Many Husbands by W. Somerset Maugham Once More, with Feeling! by Harry Kurnitz Two for the Seesaw by William Gibson Who Was That Lady I Saw You With? by Norman Krasna Look Homeward, Angel by Ketti Frings, based on the novel by Thomas Wolfe
1983 Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare A Mad World, My Masters by Barrie Keeffe The Visions of Simone Machard by Bertolt Brecht
1984 As You Like It by William Shakespeare War Babies by Robert C. Coe Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong by Randy Newman Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by William Hauptman, music and lyrics by Roger Miller
1985 The Seagull by Anton Chekhov Ghost on Fire by Michael Weller A Man's a Man by Bertolt Brecht Merrily We Roll Along by George Furth, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
1986 Ajax by Sophocles, adapted by Robert Auletta Gillette by William Hauptman Figaro Gets a Divorce by Ödön von Horváth The Three Cuckolds by Leon Katz Shout Up a Morning by Paul Avila Mayer and George W. George, music by Julian Adderley and Nathaniel Adderley, lyrics by Diane Charlotte Lampert
1987 Silent Edward by Des McAnuff The Tempest by William Shakespeare The School for Wives by Molière, translation by Richard Wilbur A Walk in the Woods by Lee Blessing Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder
1988 80 Days by Snoo Wilson, music and lyrics by Ray Davies The Fool Show by Geoff Hoyle Lulu by Frank Wedekind Two Rooms by Lee Blessing Once in a Lifetime by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
1989 The Man Who Had No Story by Oana-Marie Hock Macbeth by William Shakespeare The Misanthrope by Molière Down the Road by Lee Blessing Dangerous Games - Two Tango Pieces by Jim Lewis and Graciela Daniele, lyrics by William Finn, music by Astor Piazzolla Nebraska by Keith Reddin The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1990 Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare My Children! My Africa! by Athol Fugard Don Quixote De La Jolla by Eric Overmyer A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Life During Wartime by Keith Reddin The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
1991 Elmer Gantry by John Bishop, music by Mel Marvin, lyrics by Bob Satuloff A Lesson from Aloes by Athol Fugard The Heliotrope Bouquet by Eric Overmyer The Regard of Flight and The Clown Bagatelles by Bill Irwin Fortinbras by Lee Blessing Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
1992 Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare The Swan by Elizabeth Egloff Marisol by José Rivera Playland by Athol Fugard What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton The Who's Tommy by Pete Townshend Le Petomane - A Comedy of Airs by Paul Magid The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
1993 Sweet & Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen, music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Harold Arlen, Truman Capote, Ira Gershwin, Yip Harburg, Ted Koehler, Johnny Mercer, Leo Robin, Billy Rose and Jack Yellen The Mission by Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Siguenza Luck, Pluck & Virtue by James Lapine The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream by Steven Epp, Felicity Jones, Dominique Serrand and Paul Walsh
1994 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, music and lyrics by Frank Loesser Mump and Smoot in Ferno by Michael Kennard and John Turner The Good Person of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht Thérèse Raquin by Neal Bell The Triumph of Love by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux Harvey by Mary Chase
1995 Randy Newman's Faust, book, music, lyrics by Randy Newman An Almost Holy Picture by Heather McDonald Slavs! Thinking about the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness by Tony Kushner A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Cloud Tectonics by José Rivera The Invisible Circus/Le Cirque Invisible by Victoria Chaplin
1996 Valley Song by Athol Fugard Boy by Diana Son The Green Bird by Carlo Gozzi Happy Days by Samuel Beckett Yanks & Frogs by Theatre de la Jeune Lune 2.5 Minute Ride by Lisa Krion
1997 Harmony: A New Musical by Bruce Sussman, music by Barry Manilow Having Our Say by Emily Mann The Model Apartment by Donald Margulies Rent by Jonathan Larson The School for Wives by Molière The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
1998 Maricela De La Luz Lights the World by José Rivera Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn Light Up the Sky by Moss Hart Improbable Theatre's 70 Hill Lane by Phelim McDermott The Captain's Tiger: A Memoir for the Stage by Athol Fugard Guitar Lessons: The Springhill Singing Disaster by Karen Trott Nora by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Ingmar Bergman
1999 The Flimflam Man by Melanie Marnich Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams Wonderland by Chay Yew Pretty Fire by Charlayne Woodard Jane Eyre by John Caird and Paul Gordon Loot by Joe Orton Oo-Bla-Dee by Regina Taylor
2000 Alice's Wild Ride by Karen Hartman Thoroughly Modern Millie by Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan, music by Jeanine Tesori Going to St. Ives by Lee Blessing The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union by David Greig Sheridan, or Schooled In Scandal by David Grimm Lifegame by Keith Johnstone Blood Wedding by Federico García Lorca, translation by David Johnston
2001 The Origin of Corn / El Origen De Maiz by Ralph Lee Dracula, The Musical by Christopher Hampton and Don Black, music by Frank Wildhorn Diva by Howard Michael Gould The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and Leigh Fondakowski Be Aggressive by Annie Weisman I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright The Collected Works of Billy The Kid by Michael Ondaatje Our Town by Thornton Wilder
2002 Ladybird: The Life and Time of a Roller Derby Queen by Luis Alfaro Mabou Mines' Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie Adoration of the Old Woman by José Rivera I Think I Like Girls by Leigh Fondakowski Wintertime by Charles L. Mee When Grace Comes In by Heather McDonald A Feast of Fools by Geoff Hoyle, music by Gina Leishman Tartuffe by Molière, translation by Richard Wilbur
2003 The Breeze, the Gust, the Gale, and the Wind by Hilly Hicks The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare Beauty by Tina Landau Eden Lane by Tom Donaghy The Country by Martin Crimp The Burning Deck by Sarah Schulman Fräulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
2004 Guitar by Julia Jordan Private Fittings by Georges Feydeau, adapted by Mark O'Donnell Jersey Boys by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe The Love of Three Oranges by Carlo Gozzi, adaptation by James Magruder Paris Commune by Steve Cosson and Michael Friedman Suitcase by Melissa James Gibson Continental Divide: Mothers Against and Daughters of the Revolution by David Edgar 700 Sundays / Billy Crystal / A Life In Progress by Billy Crystal
2005 Pop Tour: Bay and the Spectacles of Doom by Julia Cho Palm Beach, The Screwball Musical by Robert Cary and Benjamin Feldman, music by David Gursky Zhivago by Michael Weller, music by Lucy Simon, lyrics by Michael Korie and Amy Powers Current Nobody by Melissa James Gibson I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright The Scottish Play by Lee Blessing The Miser by Molière Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Pop Tour: West of the 5 by Sunil Kuruvilla
2006 Zhivago by Michael Weller, music by Lucy Simon, lyrics by Michael Korie and Amy Powers Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht All Wear Bowlers by Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford Culture Clash's Zorro in Hell by Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas and Herbert Sigüenza The Wiz by William F. Brown, music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls The Farnsworth Invention by Aaron Sorkin, music by Andrew Lippa
2007/08 Carmen by Sarah Miles, music by John Ewbank The Deception, adapted from La Fausse Suivante by Pierre Marivaux After the Quake by Haruki Murakami The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice Cry-Baby by John Waters The Seven by Will Power, music by Will Power, Will Hammond, Justin Ellington Most Wanted by Jessica Hagedorn, music by Mark Bennett
2008/09 33 Variations by Moisés Kaufman The Night Watcher by Charlayne Woodard Memphis (musical) by Joe DiPietro The Third Story by Charles Busch Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell Xanadu by Douglas Carter Beane The Edge Series
2009/10 Unusual Acts of Devotion by Terrence McNally Creditors, adapted and directed by Doug Wright