La Jolla Playhouse returns live onsite with three world premieres, Without Walls fest and new play series
An image from Blindspot Collective’s “Hall Pass,” presented as part of the 2019 La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls Festival.
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La Jolla Playhouse will return to live onsite programming Thursday, June 3, kicking off a nine-month season of events that will include three world premieres, a free weekend of Without Walls Festival shows, a new play series and a mix of online theatrical shows for adults and children.
Among the season highlights will be the premieres, presented in a three-show subscription that includes two plays by celebrated authors and a new musical.
La Jolla Playhouse Announces Return to Live Theatre With World Premieres by Charlayne Woodard and More
The three world premieres include: The Garden, to the yellow house, and Bhangin’ It.by BWW News Desk
La Jolla Playhouse has announced its return to live, in-person theatre with several exciting upcoming projects. This summer, the Playhouse will offer two on-site events: the Without Walls (WOW) production of A Thousand Ways (Part 2): An Encounter, by 600 Highwaymen, running June 3 - 20; and the 2021 DNA New Works Series, featuring readings of four new plays over the weekends of July 22 - 25 and July 29 - August 1. The Playhouse will also present a special Pop-Up WOW event featuring five short, Playhouse-commissioned Without Walls works, taking place August 14 - 15 at ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station.
Center Theatre Group Digital Stage to Present KING LEAR and More This Week
King Lear is one of five Shakespeare plays captured at North America s leading classical theatre company which will be presented on CTG s Digital Stage.by BWW News Desk
The Stratford Festival s King Lear premieres Thursday, March 11 at 2 pm Pacific and will be available on demand through June 9, 2021. The lavish Stratford Festival film is free to Center Theatre Group subscribers and supporters and $10 for all others at www.centertheatregroup.org/digitalstage/videos/the-stratford-festival-king-lear/.
An aging monarch resolves to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, with consequences he little expects. His reason shattered in the storm of violent emotion that ensues, with his very life hanging in the balance, Lear loses everything that has defined him as a king - and thereby discovers the essence of his own humanity.