La Jolla Playhouse’s World-Premiere Play ‘The Recipe’ Serves Up Humor and Romance
Due to popular demand from cooking enthusiasts and theatregoers alike, The Recipe — the world-premiere play about the early life of Julia Child — has been extended for an additional week.
The San Diego Union-Tribune calls the La Jolla Playhouse showing “funny, entertaining and often-surprising…wonderful moments of humor, whimsy and romance,” and KPBS raves “Christina Kirk as Julia Child is brilliant: funny, sweet, a little brazen and purely honest.”
Before Julia Child became the TV personality that we all know, she was a rambunctious rebel against the privileged but bland life expected of her. Directionless but driven, careening from Pasadena to New York to Washington D.C. to Ceylon and finally to Paris’s famed Cordon Bleu cooking school, she battled long odds, too short sleeves, and her own self-doubt before finding both her calling and her true love, her husband, Paul Child.
Get a glimpse of some of the vibrant moments from this new play below:
This funny, colorful and delicious new play features a stellar cast and is brought to the stage by two-time Tony Award nominee playwright Claudia Shear and two-time Obie Award-winning director Lisa Peterson.
You don’t want to miss this delightful new production about the origin story of an endlessly fascinating character – Julia, a girl from Pasadena – and her path from confusion to discovery, fear to strength, failure to success.
Who knows what’s next for this well-received premiere, but if you catch it at La Jolla Playhouse, you can say you saw it here first!
Tickets are selling fast and are only available at lajollaplayhouse.org/the-recipe.
Media credit: Images courtesy of lajollaplayhouse.org
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