La Jolla Playhouse Blog

A look behind the scenes at A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Puppet Designer Basil Twist and Fairy/Acrobat Tatyana Petruk.

Each week, The Artist’s Journey will provide an insider look at the creation of a production, from first rehearsal to opening night, through the eyes of one of the show’s key players.
Anthony Luciano is an M.F.A. Directing student in the UCSD graduate theatre program and is Assistant Director on A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
We recently had [...]

Joe Manganiello, who appeared in our West Coast premiere of Unusual Acts of Devotion last season, is making quite a splash as the new werewolf construction worker Alcide on HBO’s hit series True Blood. Also recently featured on the show was J. Smith-Cameron, who is currently costarring in our production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream [...]

Each week, The Artist’s Journey will provide an insider look at the creation of a production, from first rehearsal to opening night, through the eyes of one of the show’s key players.
Anthony Luciano is an M.F.A. Directing student in the UCSD graduate theatre program and is Assistant Director on A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
We are officially [...]

Each week, The Artist’s Journey will provide an insider look at the creation of a production, from first rehearsal to opening night, through the eyes of one of the show’s key players.
Anthony Luciano is an M.F.A. Directing student in the UCSD graduate theatre program and is Assistant Director on A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Wait, we go [...]

Each week, The Artist’s Journey will provide an insider look at the creation of a production, from first rehearsal to opening night, through the eyes of one of the show’s key players.
Zoë Chao is an actress in the UCSD graduate theatre program and is co-starring in Surf Report. This is her first professional production.
The time [...]

It was a rockin’ evening at the Playhouse last night, as Memphis, the musical that played our Weiss Theatre in 2008, won 4 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book and Best Orchestrations. We are so happy for the cast and crew on Broadway, the staff at the Playhouse, and our awesome audiences [...]

The Playhouse is all atwitter with the upcoming Tony Awards, this Sunday at 8 pm on CBS. Memphis is nominated for eight awards, so we’ll be watching closely to see what happens. And now you can look closely for the nominees too!
Every year the Tony nominees come together for a giant group picture, and we [...]

The ambush was a success! TLC’s hit TV show “What Not to Wear” just filmed an episode here at La Jolla Playhouse. Our tireless Associate Production Manager, Linda, has put so much time and effort into making our productions look beautiful; now it’s her turn to be the star!
The whole staff was in on the [...]

Last Tuesday, Chad Kimball, star of Memphis on Broadway, received his first Tony Award nomination for Lead Actor in a Musical. But as the noms were being announced, he momentarily shared the honor with a total stranger.
“Funny enough my cell phone had died, and I emailed my publicist my home phone number, but accidentally gave [...]