Laguna Playhouse

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The Laguna Playhouse is a 1920 founded Theater in Laguna Beach in the US state of California . The home of the professional company is currently the Moulton Theater on Laguna Canyon Road.

In the recent past, the Laguna Playhouse has achieved great fame by winning several prestigious theater awards such as the Image Award . Some well-known actors celebrated their first theater appearances here.

program

The Laguna Playhouse has made a name for itself in Orange County through numerous productions . More than 100,000 spectators annually attend the performances and events of the theater.

The first major performance took place with Suppressed Desires (1922), a play by Susan Glaspell . At the end of the 1990s, the productions I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change and The Last Session became great audiences, which were then performed nationwide by the theater company. The Laguna Playhouse was the first theater to stage the Tony Award- winning play Copenhagen (2002). The production of the play Constant Star (2005) received the prestigious Image Award five times .

The Youth Theater puts on two productions a year, which are primarily aimed at a young audience. An educational project, TheatreReach, has existed since 1989 and organizes performances in around 150 schools every year.

history

The story of the Laguna Playhouse begins in October 1920 when a group of theater enthusiasts got together. In the beginning, the events took place in private houses. The first major performance was Suppressed Desires , a play by Susan Glaspell . As early as 1924, the company moved into its own theater building, which was called The Playhouse . The building was on Ocean Avenue in downtown Laguna Beach.

The city bought the house during the Great Depression . In the 1960s, the Laguna Playhouse briefly held performances of the South Coast Repertory , which is now located in Costa Mesa . In the period that followed, plans arose to build a larger theater building that could meet the increased demands. With the support of private donors, the new Moulton Theater was opened on Laguna Canyon Road in 1969 . The old building was then torn down. In 1985, smaller extensions were built.

The Laguna Playhouse won a national amateur competition in 1987 with the musical Quilters . After this success, the theater sought to hire a professional company. The Laguna Playhouse has been a member of the Theater Communications Group , an association of professional theaters, since the early 1990s . The planning for the construction of a second stage in Laguna Beach has been underway since 2009.

Famous actors

Several famous actors have performed or made their debut here at the Laguna Playhouse.

Actress Lynn Carlin made her first theatrical appearance in Clarence Booth Luce's comedy The Women at the Laguna Playhouse. In the play John Brown's Body in 1965 the young Harrison Ford was on stage. The actress Nicole Parker , from the neighboring town of Irvine , also worked at the Laguna Playhouse.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e History. (No longer available online.) Laguna Playhouse , archived from the original on August 13, 2009 ; accessed on June 20, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lagunaplayhouse.com
  2. ↑ a b Playhouse Chronology. (No longer available online.) Laguna Playhouse , archived from the original on January 6, 2009 ; accessed on June 20, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lagunaplayhouse.com
  3. ↑ Lynn Carlin. www.hollywood.com , accessed June 20, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Nicole Parker. Rotten Tomatoes , accessed June 20, 2009 .

Coordinates: 33 ° 32 ′ 48 "  N , 117 ° 46 ′ 53"  W.