![]() Steppenwolf won the Tony Award for regional theatre in 1985. ![]() In their more-than-40 years of operation, Steppenwolf has become world renowned for their productions, many of which have found their way to Broadway, including the Tony Award-winning Best Plays The Grapes of Wrath and August: Osage County, the 2012 revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and 2015’s Airline Highway. Playwrights Tina Landau, Pulitzer winner Tracy Letts, and Pulitzer winner Bruce Norris are also members. ![]() Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois Founded in 1974 by Gary Sinise, Terry Kinney, and Jeff Perry, Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a legendary producing force and ensemble that includes actors like John Malkovich, Laurie Metcalf, Amy Morton, Austin Pendleton, Lois Smith, and Martha Plimpton amongst its ranks. La Jolla was the 1993 winner of the regional theatre Tony Award. Escape to Margaritaville just finished its run at La Jolla-their best-selling production ever-ahead of its Broadway bow this season. GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE 2009 SEASON HOW TOShows that started at La Jolla include Big River, The Who’s Tommy, the 1995 revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Jersey Boys, Memphis, Peter and the Starcatcher, Hands on a Hardbody, Side Show, Come From Away, and this season’s Latin History for Morons and Junk. After nearly 25 years of inactivity, director Des McAnuff brought the theatre back in 1983, and his tenure established La Jolla as one of the most fertile testing grounds for Broadway productions. La Jolla Playhouse in La Jolla, California Founded by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Mel Ferrer in 1947, the La Jolla Playhouse offered many golden-age Hollywood actors stage opportunities, including Vivian Vance, Eve Arden, Robert Alda, and Charlton Heston, to name a few. ![]() If you want to know what’s coming next to Broadway, pay attention to their seasons! The Broadway Incubators These theatres have become the go-to places for Broadway shows to work out kinks before coming to the Main Stem. Summer stock is an important part of American theatre history, which was recognized when Ogunquit’s theatre was added to the national register of historic places, raised to National Level of Significance “in consideration of the significant contributions made…to Performing Arts Education throughout the nation” in 2015. ![]() Summer stock is now where many up-and-coming performers begin their careers, but in its heyday it wasn’t unusual to see a major Broadway star like Mary Martin or John Raitt heading up stock productions, often of musicals they’d starred in on Broadway. Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine Though summer theatre peppers the U.S.-particularly in the northeast-Ogunquit is one of the only remaining original summer stock theatres from the Straw Hat Circuit. ![]()
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