Laguna Playhouse Grows Behind Scenes

LAGUNA BEACH — Laguna Playhouse, which produces its shows at the Moulton Theater in Laguna Beach, will take over a 12,000-square-foot building in Laguna Hills for use as a scene shop, rehearsal hall, audition site and storage facility.

“We’ve been bursting at the seams in our current location,” playhouse executive director Richard Stein said, referring to a 7,000-square-foot space in Lake Forest that the playhouse has leased for the past six years. They move into the new facility June 20 on a five-year lease.

The playhouse also announced that for the next three years, beginning this summer with “Don’t Dress for Dinner” (June 27-July 27), its theater programs will be provided by Stagebill, the nation’s largest program publisher.

Stagebill, which is based in New York, produces the programs for such major arts institutions as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington and the major orchestras of Philadelphia, San Francisco and St. Louis. It also serves such prestigious theaters as the New York Shakespeare Festival, the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and the Steppenwolf Theatre Co. in Chicago.