La Jolla Playhouse Blog

Full given name: John Alberto Leguizamo
Hometown: Jackson Heights, Queens New York
Worst job: Working stock room of kentucky fried chicken
First Broadway show you saw: Chorus Line
Preparation before a show: nap, boxing, pushups, cursing and praying.
Worst costume: captain vegetable on sesame street
Favorite part of the production process: On set doing as many ‘takes’ as it takes.
Worst onstage [...]

Full given name: Stark Bunker Sands
Hometown: Dallas, Tx
First Broadway show you saw: Starlight Express when I was 9 years old– what a spectacle.
Preparation before a show: Arrive way early so I don’t have to rush. I do enough rushing during the show.
Dream role: Romeo
Worst costume: I was going to say naked but I’m actually starting [...]

For the past four weeks, our three-actor ensemble have been realizing how richly layered Strindberg’s play is, how well-oiled its dramaturgical machinery, and how confidently they can rely on the great Swedish master to deliver them unto his gem of a one-act play in three scenes.
For the first two week of rehearsal, the actors were [...]

by Tom Dugdale, Assistant Director for Creditors
Today we’re setting aside our table work and getting the play “on its feet.” And a surprise awaits us in the rehearsal room: set pieces and props! Downstage, a medium-sized table is laden with clay, art supplies and a sculpture, which is covered for now with cheesecloth. Elsewhere in [...]

Here’s the second installment of my recent conversation with the HOOVER COMES ALIVE! Playwright (and part-time tweeter for La Jolla Playhouse).
Gabriel Greene: A lot of the fun in HOOVER COMES ALIVE! arises from the mash-up between presidential politics and rock and roll — particularly the idea that Hoover chooses to emulate Elvis Presley’s 1968 Comeback [...]

By Erick Sundquist, Wardrobe Supervisor
When people ask what it is I do, they often mistake it for a glamorous job. While it is tons of fun, most overlook the detail it takes to make the show look and run consistently eight times a week. My job is to maintain the look and integrity of the design once [...]

At first rehearsal, Creditors’ Adaptor/Director Doug Wright warmly welcomed the company of actors, designers and production team, telling an audience of Playhouse staff, teaching artists and volunteers about the excitement he felt when he first discovered Strindberg’s taut, psychological thriller. With its cunning mind games and verbal twists and turns, Doug is eager to [...]

During a break from rehearsals for HOOVER COMES ALIVE!, I got the chance to chat with HOOVER playwright Sean Cunningham*. Here’s the first installment of our conversation.
Gabriel Greene: What was the inspiration for this project? What brought Herbert Hoover into your consciousness?
Sean Cunningham: The inspiration was that Alex Timbers [who co-conceived and is directing HOOVER] [...]

Full Name: Bradley Darryl Wong
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
First Broadway show you saw: I think it was Little Me with Mary Gordon Murray and Victor Garber.
Preparation before a show: shower, pee, brush teeth, electrolyte water, sit-ups, pee, incessant texting: “I’m turning the phone off now…”  Pee.
Dream role: IAGO
Worst costume: “Panther” costume:  La Cage Aux Folles — [...]