 The
La Jolla Playhouse is part of the planned Theatre District
for UC San Diego. The La Jolla Playhouse is a creative haven for the most distinctive
voices in the American Theatre and has garnered more than 300 major
honors including the 1993 Tony Award as America’s Outstanding
Regional Theatre. The Theatre’s partnership with UC San Diego’s
nationally-ranked theater program has been in place for over 20
years; however the buildings to support them have not. The Joan
and Irwin Jacobs Center for the La Jolla Playhouse now provides
the institutional stability that matches the Theatre’s long-term
success.
Syska Hennessy Group provided electrical engineering and architectural
lighting design services for the construction of a new $50 million,
47,000 sq ft theater district. In addition to the theater, the
complex will include a Play Development and Education Center, and
a restaurant/cabaret area. The centerpiece of the project is a
450-seat experimental theater.
The Play Development and Education Center will serve
UC San Diego’s
Department of Theatre and Dance, and the La Jolla Playhouse. The
Center will include a “black box” or experimental theater,
sound studio, three classroom/rehearsal spaces, office and administrative
support space, and workshop and storage space. Functions are located
on three levels, two above natural grade and one below. This facility
will act as an experimental laboratory for artists and educators
and a state
of
the art, fully
flexible teaching and performance facility and interaction venue
for ideas and community interface.
The site planning goal is to give the Theatre District a coherent
identity and unify the three
theatres. It will serve as a bridge to the University, as well
as to the community and restore the park and grove.
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