Mayer, Pasdar, Arney to Direct at Geffen Playhouse

The Geffen Playhouse has a few updates to the 2007/2008 season which was previously announced to include two commissioned plays and a multiple of World, American and West Coast premieres on its main stage and the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.  Recent Tony Award winner Michael Mayer is slated to direct Joanna Murray-Smith's The Female of the Species.  The American premiere starring Annette Bening moves on to Broadway following the presentation at the Geffen. 

Actor-director Adrian Pasdar and Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director Randall Arney are set to co-direct the World premiere of Atlanta.  Pasdar, along with singer-songwriter Marcus Hummon, developed the progressive new musical, which mixes select prose by William Shakespeare with original bluegrass music and country tunes.  Additionally, Daniel Beaty's Emergence-SEE! is moving from the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater to the main stage.  The transition finalizes the five-play season on the main stage.  Beaty takes on more than 40 different characters as they respond to a 400-year old slave ship that rises out of the Hudson River in his critically acclaimed one-man show.  Future presentations for the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at Geffen Playhouse may be announced later.

Subscriptions to the 2007-2008 season are now available for purchase online at GeffenPlayhouse.com, in person at the Geffen Playhouse Box Office, or by calling Subscriber Services at (310) 209-1328.  Single tickets go on sale July 1, 2007, and may be purchased in person at the Geffen Playhouse Box Office or by phone at (310) 208-5454, by calling Ticketmaster at (213) 365-3500, at all Ticketmaster outlets (Robinsons May and Ritmo Latino locations), or online at www.GeffenPlayhouse.com. For general information or to request a brochure, please call (310) 208-5454.