A musical about gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, a new play starring Broadway and film star Matthew Broderick and a biography on the life and times of tennis icon Billie Jean King are among the shows announced Wednesday, Nov. 30, as part of La Jolla Playhouse’s 2023-24 season.
The six-show subscription season will also include a dance theater piece about living with autism spectrum disorder and a drama about the culture of sumo wrestling, as well as a final show that has yet to be announced. Before the season kicks off next spring, the Playhouse’s annual site-specific Without Walls Festival will also return at a new location, the bayside Rady Shell at Jacobs Park April 27-30.
Billie Jean King raises her hands in triumph over Bobby Riggs in their famous “battle of the sexes” tennis match in Houston in 1973. In keeping with the Playhouse’s mission to champion new work, all five of the productions announced so far are world premieres. Christopher Ashley, the Playhouse’s Tony Award-winning director, said the season celebrates the “transformative power of theater to explore potent undercurrents in our society.
The sixth season production and full show dates will be announced soon. Subscriptions for the 2023-24 season are now on sale atThe Tony-nominated playwright of “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992" will present this new play about the triumphant rise of trailblazing tennis icon and social justice pioneer Billie Jean King. Marc Bruni will direct this biographical play, which follows the rise of King against the backdrop of massive social change in the 1960s and ‘70s.
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