Laguna Playhouse to Raise Top Ticket Price to $22

LAGUNA BEACH — The Laguna Playhouse will raise its top ticket price from $17 to $22 for the 1990-91 subscription season, Executive Director Richard A. Stein announced. The lowest-priced ticket of $11 will remain the same.

“We need the money,” Stein said. “We haven’t had any significant price increases in recent years.”

The Laguna Beach amateur theater also announced that it will bring back “Quilters,” its award-winning musical production from 1987, as the non-subscription holiday offering for the 1990-91 season. The show, by Molly Newman and Barbara Damashek, will feature the original cast of seven women and will run from Nov. 30 to Dec. 16.

The theater had planned to offer “A Wonderful Life” as its perennial holiday show, but “we feel everybody has seen it,” Stein noted of the Sheldon Harnick-Joe Raposo musical that ran there twice this season.

The Playhouse’s subscription offerings for the 1990-91 season are: George Bernard Shaw’s “Caesar and Cleopatra” (Sept. 4 to 30); Neil Simon’s “Broadway Bound” (Oct. 30 to Nov. 25); Tina Howe’s “Painting Churches” (Jan. 15 to Feb. 10); Lee Blessing’s “A Walk in the Woods” (March 12 to April 7); Roger Miller’s and William Hauptman’s “Big River” (May 14 to June 9).

In the meantime, Stein said there has been “no progress on the professional theater” that the Playhouse had hoped to establish as a second stage, and he ruled out any possibility of producing any professional offerings next season.