La Jolla Playhouse
The Recipe
February 10 – March 22
Before Julia Child became the TV personality that we all know, she was a rambunctious rebel against the privileged but bland Pasadena 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 selfdoubt before finding both her calling and her true love, her husband, Paul Child.
Two-time Tony Award nominee Claudia Shear and two-time Obie Award winner Lisa Peterson return to the Playhouse with a funny, colorful and delicious new play about the early life of an endlessly fascinating character – Julia, a girl from Pasadena – and her path from confusion to discovery, fear to strength, failure to success.
Performances take place at the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre, La Jolla. For more information, call (858) 550-1070 or visit www.lajollaplayhouse.org.
