Purpose
Meet the Jaspers: generations of a powerful Black political family under one roof where nothing stays buried for long. When their youngest son returns home,...
About the Theatre
Named after Geffen Playhouse founder, Gil Cates, in spring of 2010, this 512 seat performance space is large enough to accommodate musicals but usually houses contemporary and classic plays, including world premieres and second productions as well as re-imaginings of timeless works. The Gil Cates Theater typically houses five season productions (running for five weeks or more) as well as special events including concerts, holiday productions, and play readings. This theater also houses several education and outreach performances and events each year.Upcoming Shows
Liberation
Following its smash Pulitzer Prize–winning Broadway run, Liberation makes its West Coast debut with sharp wit, emotional insight, and fearless ambition to challenge the status quo. It’s...
Closing Costs
Housing prices in LA are already criminal, but in this home, they may actually be fatal. A scrappy real estate agent and her Uber-driving boyfriend...
Wine in the Wilderness
Set during the height of the 1964 Harlem riot, Wine in the Wilderness unfolds in the apartment of Bill Jameson, a painter determined to capture “the essence”...
Interview: COMEDY OF ERRORS Director, Composer and Actor at Independent Shakespeare Company
Here are my interviews with director Melissa Chalsma, composer David Melville, and actor Carene Rose Mekertichyan on COMEDY OF ERRORS presented by Independent Shakespeare Company outdoors in Griffith Park this summer.…
Review: Norm Foster's LAKEFRONT U.S. Premiere Engagement at Theatre 40
All in all, Lakefront offers a very enjoyable two-hour romantic journey guaranteed to keep you laughing and rooting for these lost and lonely souls looking for their soulmate.…
Review: F**KING STRANGERS at Echo Theatre Company
Focusing on four lonely people in Southern California, it dramatizes the ever-shifting facets of our relationships as we struggle to be vulnerable and honest with others and ourselves.…
Review: JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Chance Theater
Beautifully and tenderly directed by Matthew McCray, this ferociously performed and often visually hypnotic intimate production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical is such a pleasant surprise, instantly becoming one of Chance Theater's most piercingly emotional new musicals it has ever produc…
Review: APPLAUSE at The Group Rep
Applause has too much heart and is simply too much fun to be bogged down by its shortcomings, so audiences should take advantage of catching this gem while they can.…
Review: OC's Segerstrom Center Welcomes HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD
In the fantastical, visually-enchanting stage play HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD—the theatrical continuation of J.K. Rowling's beloved magical saga—the idea of revisiting the past is embraced as its central theme, which in turn shifts the focus away from the mischievous school adventures tha…
Review: MUSE/IQUE DEFIANTLY JONI: A SINGER/SONGWRITER BARES HER SOUL at Mark Taper Forum
The concert offered an intimate tribute to Joni Mitchell's unique genius, offering a revelatory look at the cultural milieu and musical streams that fed into her art, and then poured out of her Laurel Canyon home and into her unique ways of mixing other genres and artists into her music – or inspi…
Review: ANATOMY OF A BACK by Kick Boom Theater at Electric Lodge
John Wuchte and his Kick Boom Theater ensemble of five actors and two onstage musicians (Wuchte on percussion and Sarah Green on guitar) continue their exploration of live percussion scoring the actors’ movement, gestures and stylized dialogue during Anatomy of a Back at the Electric Lodge in Veni…
Review: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT at Musical Theatre West
Musical Theatre West's brand new presentation of JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT marks the fifth time the 74-season-old institution is revisiting this ubiquitous musical, this time starring hunky Broadway alum and America's Got Talent standout Brian Justin Crum. For all intents and purp…
Review: MEAN GIRLS at Wisteria Theater
Even in Los Angeles, in the midst of a spectacular live theater renaissance, there are few theaters in town doing musicals with as much deep excellence and sheer joy as Wisteria Theater.…
Past Shows
Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous
Anna Campbell is a trailblazing actress flush with accolades but short on cash. After returning to the U.S. to stage a career-defining comeback, she collides...
"Master Harold"...and the Boys
Step into the charged atmosphere of a 1950s South African tea shop in Athol Fugard’s “Master Harold”…and the Boys, a gripping, deeply personal drama that unflinchingly...
SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA
Sally, a once-celebrated novelist grappling with writer's block and overshadowed by her husband Theo’s rising literary fame, seeks solace and inspiration in the iconic Boston...
Table 17
If your ex called, would you answer? Jada and Dallas were once engaged—now, they’re meeting for dinner to untangle the past. Between cheeky waiters, old...
Am I Roxie?
In this fiercely funny one-woman tour-de-force based on her own life, writer/actor Roxana Ortega (The Casagrandes, The Groundlings) navigates the chaos of her mother’s mental...
The Reservoir
Josh’s life is spiraling, but luckily, his grandparents are here to help. And by help, we mean offering unsolicited advice, relentlessly judging his life choices,...
Furlough's Paradise
Cousins Sade and Mina used to be inseparable. Now leading very different lives, they return to their childhood town for the funeral of their mother...
tiny father
When a “friends with benefits” relationship unexpectedly results in the early arrival of a baby girl, Daniel must choose between being a biological parent or...
Fat Ham
Meet Juicy, a young, queer Black man with a Shakespearean-sized dilemma. When the ghost of his dead father shows up at his family’s BBQ wedding reception...
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
A derogatory comment, a summit gone awry, an anal abscess—it’s a bad day at the White House. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare...
The Mountaintop
Its April 3, 1968 and Martin Luther King, Jr. returns to the Lorraine Motel after delivering his history-altering Ive Been to the Mountaintop speech. When...
Ava: The Secret Conversations
I either write the book or sell the jewels. Im kinda sentimental about the jewels. So says legendary Hollywood icon Ava Gardner (Elizabeth McGovern, Once...
The First Deep Breath
Pastor Albert Jones and his family are proud leaders of the Mother Bethel Baptist Church and pillars of their community. Plans are being made for...
The Inheritance: Part 1 & Part 2
In contemporary Manhattan, Eric and Toby are 30-somethings who seem to be very much in love and thriving. But on the cusp of their engagement,...
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Much Ado About Nothing McCadden Place Theatre (8/07-8/16) |
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6 Out of 10 Theatre 68 (8/20-8/20) |
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After the Blast The Broadwater Second Stage (8/05-8/13) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Emily Skinner: In Concert Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/14-8/15) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya) (10/11-10/11) |
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John Lloyd Young Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/21-8/22) |
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Julius Caesar Marin Shakespeare Company (8/14-9/13) |
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Love, Loss and What I Wore Sawyer's Playhouse (8/08-8/30) |
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Wine in the Wilderness Gil Cates Theater (6/02-7/04) |