La Jolla Playhouse Announces 2017 Without Walls (WOW) Festival

6/21/2017 6:51pm


La Jolla Playhouse has announced the dates and selected projects and collaborators for its third Without Walls (WoW) Festival of immersive and site-based work. The 2017 WoW Festival will take place Oct 19 – 22 in downtown San Diego and surrounding areas, in collaboration with several major partners, including Horton Plaza Park, Westfield Corporation; The New Children’s Museum; the San Diego Public Library; Bread & Salt and Border X Brewing; as well as ArtPower. Also new to this year’s event is the appointment of Meiyin Wang as Festival Director. Like previous WoW Festivals, the 2017 event will showcase multiple performances by acclaimed local, national and international artists, along with a selection of family-friendly offerings, occurring simultaneously throughout the weekend. Confirmed projects include SUPER NIGHT SHOT by the Berlin-based Gob Squad, to take place at the San Diego Public Library, and a Playhouse-commissioned, performative installation entitled MODEL HOME by scenic designer Mimi Lien, to take place at Horton Plaza Park. The WoW Festival will also feature projects by such local companies as Sledgehammer Theatre with a production of Charles Mee’s UNDER CONSTRUCTION: AN AMERICAN MASQUE, produced in association with UC San Diego Department of Theatre & Dance, to take place at Logan Heights’ Bread & Salt; the storytelling group So Say We All, with the piece INCOMING: SEX, DRUGS, AND COPENHAGEN, to take place in Barrio Logan’s Border X Brewing; a new version of the interactive family adventure, THE QUEST 3.0, developed in collaboration with The New Children’s Museum, where the piece will take place; and Trisha Brown Dance Company’s IN PLAIN SITE, presented by ArtPower at their UC San Diego space, in association with the WoW Festival. Additional projects will be announced at a later date. For more information, please visit LaJollaPlayhouse.org. Press contact: Becky Biegelsen (858/228-3092)...