The first staging of the Silver Linings Playbook musical will be in La Jolla, California, in February and March 2028. It closes La Jolla Playhouse's 2027/28 season, the first programmed by Artistic Director Jessica Stone. Her six-show lineup opens in May 2027 and includes five world premieres.
Stone, who directed Kimberly Akimbo on Broadway, is the Playhouse's new artistic director. Her season is spread across the Playhouse's three stages on the UC San Diego campus: the Mandell Weiss Theatre, the Mandell Weiss Forum and the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre.
Silver Linings Playbook: A New Musical
Rick Elice has written the book. The music and lyrics are by Ian Axel and Chad King, who record as A Great Big World. The show adapts Matthew Quick's novel and the film that was made from it. Stone directs it herself in the Mandell Weiss Theatre in February and March 2028. The same team gave the piece a private industry reading on October 23. Single tickets are expected to go on sale in November 2027.
A Magical Orange Grove in a Nightmare
The season opens in the Potiker Theatre in May and June 2027 with the world premiere of Noah Haidle's play, directed by Arya Shahi. It centers on a father, Henry, who cannot accept that his son Elliot is real.
Palm Springs
Jeff Augustin, a graduate of UC San Diego's MFA program, wrote this world premiere, which the Playhouse commissioned. Another UC San Diego graduate, Joshua Kahan Brody, directs it in the Mandell Weiss Forum in June and July 2027. Arnaud walks out on his job and his husband for a weekend in the desert, and a night among strangers goes somewhere he did not plan.
The Attic: Things I've Seen While Lying on My Back
The Montreal circus company The 7 Fingers makes its Playhouse debut with the West Coast premiere of this piece in the Mandell Weiss Theatre in July and August 2027. Shana Carroll, a Tony nominee and a former trapeze artist, wrote, directed and choreographed it.
I think Big Cat is stealing my words
Daniel Zaitchik wrote this memoir with music and performs in it. It is about a son, Daniel, and his mother, Netty, as she loses her words. Shayok Misha Chowdhury directs the world premiere in the Potiker Theatre in September and October 2027. It is a co-production with New York's Roundabout Theatre Company.
The Cutter Incident
The Pulitzer and Tony winner Doug Wright has written a new play based on an episode in American history where an effort to save lives ran into politics and fear. Des McAnuff, the Playhouse's founding artistic director, directs it in the Mandell Weiss Theatre in November 2027.
Tickets
Six-play subscriptions start at $50 a ticket. Current subscribers can renew now, and new subscriptions go on sale on November 19. Single tickets will be released in stages through 2027. The first three shows go on sale in March, the next two in June, and Silver Linings Playbook in November. Details are on the La Jolla Playhouse website.
