From Rebel to Icon: The Early Life of Julia Child at La Jolla Playhouse!
February 10, 2026 - March 8, 2026
Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre
Written by Claudia Shear
Based on the book DEARIE by Bob Spitz
Directed by Lisa Peterson
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 self doubt 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.
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