The Laguna Playhouse was launched in a living room! That's right...on October 22, 1920, a group of dedicated local drama devotees got together and decided it was time to establish a community theatre in Laguna Beach. Initially there were play readings and performances in private homes and storefronts. The company’s first full production on record was Suppressed Desires, a satire on Freudian psychology by Susan Glaspel, a member—with Eugene O'Neill—of the famed Provincetown Playhouse in New York and Massachusetts.