theatre by lisa lipsey
Roger Rees
Alex Timbers
Embracing thE UnfinishEd:
Peter and
Peter and the StarcatcherS
the StarcatcherS
La Jolla Playhouse
February 13 – March 8
Box Office:858.550.1010
“Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning!” That’s the way to to audience reactions and feedback. It seems to be working well. Previous
Neverland. But just how did Peter first discover Neverland? Page To Stage productions include the Tony Award-winning 700 Sundays
The folks at La Jolla Playhouse are inviting us to find out with their latest and I Am My Own Wife, which went on to receive a Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
“Page To Stage” production. This new play, Peter and the Starcatchers, is a Peter and the Starcatchers is being developed and refined using an artis-
prequel to Peter Pan. Written by Rick Elice (Co-Writer of Jersery Boys, an- tic team approach that is led by Co-Directors Roger Rees and Alex Timbers.
other La Jolla Playhouse premiere and the 2006 Tony Award Winner for Best Rees has directed numerous plays both in the United States and abroad
Musical), Peter and the Starcatchers is adapted from Dave Barry and Ridley and ran the Williamstown Theatre Festival from 2005 to 2007. Timbers is
Pearson’s popular novel of the same name. It is being produced by special an Obie Award-winning writer/director and Artistic Director of Les Frères
arrangement with Disney Theatrical Productions. A quick note about the Corbusier. He is also currently developing a half-hour comedy pilot for
“Page To Stage” program: For the past seven years, La Jolla Playhouse has 20th Century Fox.
offered playwrights and directors a way to give birth and to bring up baby. So, despite an intense rehearsal schedule, Peter and the Starcatchers’
Dubbed the “Page To Stage” series, this new play development program al- Directors Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, agreed to interview with The Rage
lows for the playwright and director to make constant changes in response Monthly at 6:15 p.m. after a long Friday of work.
16 RAGE monthly | FEBRUARY 2009
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