La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls Festival will take place next year at the Rady Shell

Two of San Diego’s hottest cultural points of interest — La Jolla Playhouse’s roving With out Partitions Competition and San Diego Symphony’s new waterfront live performance venue, The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park — will come collectively for the primary time subsequent spring.

Immediately, the Playhouse introduced that its subsequent WOW Competition will happen at The Rady Shell campus, from April 23 to 30. The pageant lineup will likely be introduced at a later date.

For the reason that first WOW fest in fall 2013, the occasion has been staged at a number of areas round city, together with on the campus of UC San Diego, in venues round downtown San Diego and at Liberty Station. The pageant went digital throughout the pandemic, then returned this previous April to Liberty Station with 22 reveals by artists from San Diego, Los Angeles, New York, Mexico, Canada and Australia.

Playhouse inventive director Christopher Ashley mentioned just lately that due to the pageant’s site-specific nature — the place new theater, dance, music, puppetry and spectacle occasions are created and staged with the host location in thoughts — WOW will all the time be on the transfer to new locations.

The 1-year-old Rady Shell at Jacobs Park was constructed by San Diego Symphony with $85 million in non-public funds on the town’s 3.7-acre Embarcadero Marina Park South. The out of doors amphitheater sits beside San Diego Bay close to Seaport Village and the San Diego Conference Middle. In addition to its 4,800-square-foot live performance stage, Rady Shell consists of onsite eating places, restrooms, park areas, waterside walkways, versatile seating for as much as 10,000 folks and a big artificial garden seating space.

Ashley mentioned the collaboration between the Playhouse and Symphony is an efficient match as a result of each organizations are dedicated to “inventive innovation.”

A view of the Rady shell at Jacobs Park in San Diego. Designed by Tucker Sadler Architects and Soundforms Design Companions, with panorama structure by Burton Landscaping, this new out of doors efficiency area incorporates a 4,800 square-foot stage atop the three.7-acre Embarcadero Marina Park South in San Diego. The park got here as a part of a be a part of effort between the San Diego Symphony, which can use it as a efficiency stage within the summers, and the Unified Port of San Diego.

(San Diego Symphony)

“The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park provides unparalleled alternatives for artists to discover and create boundary-breaking theater,” Ashley mentioned in a press release. “Moreover, its central downtown location and gorgeous setting on the bay, together with the symphony’s deep dedication to the group, make the Rady Shell a improbable spot for our subsequent WOW Competition.”

Symphony CEO Martha Gilmer mentioned she’s excited to ask one other native inventive group into The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park.

“A number of years in the past, after we started to dream of constructing the Rady Shell and what it may do for our group, we had hopes that it might be a hub for tradition, creativity, creativeness and finally an area for all to collect and luxuriate in distinctive shared experiences,” Gilmer mentioned in a press release.

For extra info on the With out Partitions Competition, go to lajollaplayhouse.org/without-walls.