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Video: Director Sideeq Heard on FAT HAM at Geffen Playhouse
by Joshua Wright - April 12, 2024
Watch as Director Sideeq shares what he hopes audiences will understand about themselves and others after seeing Fat Ham at Geffen Playhouse....
Review: FAT HAM at Geffen Playhouse
by Evan Henerson - April 12, 2024
Huzzah James Ijames’ FAT HAM. Bless its softness, its savory juiciness, its wit and its ostentation. And its Juicy! Hooray for the clothes, the music, the unabashed delight that this whacked-out literary homage enjoys in wrestling with Shakespeare’s existential conundrums and deciding, screw it! let...
Interview: Sideeq Heard's Ever Excited to Direct FAT HAM Again
by Gil Kaan - April 09, 2024
The west coast premiere of James Ijames’ 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning Fat Ham opened April 4, 2024, at the Geffen Playhouse. Sideeq Heard directs the talented cast of Nikki Crawford, Chris Herbie Holland, Billy Eugene Jones, Adrianna Mitchell, Marcel Spears, Benja Kay Thomas and Matthew Eli...
Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Reveals 2023 Award Recipients
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 09, 2024
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has revealed the award recipients for 2023. See who the winners are and learn more about the awards!...
Photos: First Look at FAT HAM at Geffen Playhouse
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 02, 2024
Geffen Playhouse is presenting the West Coast premiere of the Broadway production of five-time Tony Award nominee and 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner Fat Ham. Get a first look at photos!...
Ensemble Theatre Company Presents THE LEHMAN TRILOGY, Beginning This Week
by A.A. Cristi - April 01, 2024
Join Ensemble Theatre Company for the opening night of THE LEHMAN TRILOGY, adapted by Ben Power and directed by Oahn Nguyen, on April 6 at New Vic Theatre, Santa Barbara....
Playwrights' Arena Honors Denise Blasor, Gregg Daniel, And C. Raul Espinoza At Annual Brunch Gala At LA LGBT Center
by A.A. Cristi - March 28, 2024
Join Playwrights' Arena for their Annual Gala on April 28, 2024. Celebrate the art of playwriting and support the development of new plays in this festive event....
WAITING FOR GODOT With Rainn Wilson, and More Set For Geffen Playhouse's 2024/2025 Season
by Stephi Wild - March 19, 2024
Geffen Playhouse has announced six productions that will make up the 2024/2025 season lineup, marking the inaugural season from Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director Tarell Alvin McCraney....
DINNER WITH FRIENDS To Be Presented At The Zephyr Theatre This April
by A.A. Cristi - March 15, 2024
DINNER WITH FRIENDS, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Donald Margulies, will be presented by Adriano Aragon and Foursome Productions at the Zephyr Theatre. ...
West Coast Premiere of 'A' TRAIN Comes to Rubicon Theatre
by Stephi Wild - March 15, 2024
Rubicon Theatre will continue the company’s 25th Anniversary Season with the West Coast Premiere run of “A” TRAIN, an award-winning play-with-music about a mother’s journey on the autism train. ...
Past Shows
You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s “done something stupid.” She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make ...
The Mountaintop
6/6 - 7/9/2023
The night before his untimely death, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. returns to his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis after delivering a speech ...
The Inheritance
9/13 - 11/27/2022
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, ...
The Inheritance, Part One
9/13 - 11/27/2022
Winner of the 2020 Tony Award for Best Play. Winner of the 2020 Drama Desk Award for Best Play. Winner of the 2019 Olivier Award ...
The Inheritance, Part Two
9/13 - 11/27/2022
Winner of the 2020 Tony Award for Best Play. Winner of the 2020 Drama Desk Award for Best Play. Winner of the 2019 Olivier Award ...
King Liz
7/12 - 8/14/2022
A WICKED SOUL IN CHERRY HILL
6/21 - 7/24/2022
Man Of God
5/10 - 6/19/2022
David Henry Hwang Theater: Anna Moench; dir: Jesca Prudencio....
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
4/19 - 5/22/2022
Trayf
3/1 - 4/10/2022
Lindsay Joelle; dir: Benjamin Kamine. American Premiere...
Power Of Sail
2/8 - 3/13/2022
Distinguished Harvard professor Charles Nichols (Emmy & Tony Award winner Bryan Cranston) finds himself in hot water after inviting an incendiary white nationalist to speak ...
The Enigmatist
9/14 - 10/30/2021
Can you solve the enigma? From the creator and performer of the hit virtual production Inside the Box comes an immersive experience of puzzles and ...
Someone Else's House
4/23 - 7/3/2021
Obie Award-winning multimedia artist Jared Mezzocchi has a harrowing story to tell: his family's frightening, true-life haunting inside a 200-year-old New England house. Flip the ...
The Door You Never Saw Before
5/14 - 6/27/2021
Part musical, part adventure, this inventive new play is designed to take frustrated kids in quarantine on an outrageously fun journey. After entering a door ...
Macbeth
6/16 - 7/20/2020
The Enigmatist
5/5 - 6/14/2020
An immersive evening of puzzles, cryptology and illusions...
Nightfall
3/3 - 4/12/2020
Revenge Song: A Vampire Cowboys Creation
2/4 - 3/8/2020
Gil Cates Theater: Revenge Song: A Vampire Cowboys Creation...
Man of God
3/3
David Henry Hwang Theater: Anna Moench; dir: Jesca Prudencio....
Revenge Song
2/4
Key Largo
11/6 - 12/10/2019
adapt: Andy Garcia, Jeffrey Hatcher. World Premiere...
The Thanksgiving Play
10/22 - 12/1/2019
by Larissa FastHorse Good intentions collide with absurd assumptions in Larissa FastHorse’s wickedly funny satire, as a troupe of terminally woke teaching artists scrambles to ...
Skintight
9/3 - 10/6/2019
Joshua Harmon; dir: Daniel Aukin....
Skintight
9/3 - 10/6/2019
Hanging on by a thread after her ex-husband gets engaged to a much younger woman, Jodi (Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, Rent, Wicked) retreats to ...
Witch
8/20 - 9/29/2019
Mischief is afoot in the sleepy village of Edmonton and the fate of the world is at stake in this smart modern fable. When the ...
Our Very Own Carlin McCullough
6/19 - 7/29/2018
A single mother discovers that her ten-year-old daughter is a tennis phenom. When a young, dedicated coach takes Carlin under his wing, her meteoric rise ...
Skeleton Crew
6/5 - 7/8/2018
As the Great Recession of 2008 begins to decimate industries across America, the once-gleaming “Motor City” has lost its luster. At one of its still-standing ...
Sell/Buy/Date
2/27 - 4/8/2018
Sell/Buy/Date is an exuberant new show inspired by the real-life experiences of people affected by the sex industry. Brimming with Jones' masterful, multicultural characterizations, Sell/Buy/Date ...
Ironbound
1/30 - 3/4/2018
At a bus stop in a run-down New Jersey town, Darja, a Polish immigrant cleaning lady, is done talking about feelings; it’s time to talk ...
Underneath the Lintel
10/10 - 11/19/2017
Glen Berger; dir: Steve Robman....
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ... THE GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY UNIT AT MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER
9/5 - 10/8/2017
Halley Feiffer; dir: Trip Cullman....
Constellations
6/6 - 7/16/2017
This spellbinding, romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman. But what happens next defies the boundaries of the world ...
The Legend of Georgia McBride
4/4 - 5/14/2017
He’s young, he’s broke, his landlord’s knocking at the door, and he’s just found out his wife is going to have a baby. To make ...
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1/31 - 3/18/2017
Eugene O'Neill; dir: Jeanie Hackett. Gil Cates Theater:...
The Lion
1/4 - 2/19/2017
Benjamin Scheuer; dir: Sean Daniels. Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater:...
Icebergs
11/8 - 12/18/2016
Alena Smith; dir: Randall Arney. World Premiere...
Icebergs
11/8 - 12/18/2016
Alena Smith; dir: Randall Arney. World Premiere...
The Model Apartment
10/11 - 11/20/2016
Donald Margulies; dir: Marya Mazor....
The Model Apartment
10/11 - 11/20/2016
Donald Margulies; dir: Marya Mazor....
Barbecue
9/6 - 10/16/2016
Barbecue centers on around the O'Mallerys, a dysfunctional group of siblings who come together for a park barbeque in order to stage an emergency intervention ...
Barbecue
9/6 - 10/16/2016
Barbecue centers on around the O'Mallerys, a dysfunctional group of siblings who come together for a park barbeque in order to stage an emergency intervention ...
Big Sky
6/7 - 7/17/2016
Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros; dir: John Rando....
[Untitled, Derek DelGaudio]
5/3 - 6/12/2016
Derek DeGaudio....
Stage Kiss
4/5 - 5/15/2016
Sarah Ruhl; dir: Bart DeLorenzo....
Sex With Strangers
3/1 - 4/10/2016
Laura Eason; dir: Kimberly Senior....
Barcelona
2/2 - 3/13/2016
Two women and a besieged town Nuria and Elena are two women with outstanding bills, two friends separated by the love of a man and ...
Outside Mullingar
11/10 - 12/20/2015
This is a new romantic comedy from the Pulitzer-, Oscar-, and Tony Award-winner John Patrick Shanley, writer of Doubt and Moonstruck. Anthony and Rosemary are ...
Guards at the Taj
10/6 - 11/15/2015
Rajiv Joseph; dir: Giovanna Sardelli....
THESE PAPER BULLETS! A Modish Ripoff of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
9/8 - 10/18/2015
Rolin Jones; lyrics: Billie Joe Armstrong; music: Billie Joe Armstrong; dir: Jackson Gay....
Bad Jews
6/9 - 7/19/2015
Joshua Harmon....
Murder for Two
5/27 - 7/7/2015
book: Kellen Blair, Joe Kinosian; lyrics: Kellen Blair; music: Joe Kinosian; dir: Scott Schwartz....
The Power of Duff
4/7 - 5/17/2015
The Huntington's Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA: Stephen Belber; dir: Peter DuBois....
Switzerland
3/3 - 4/12/2015
An attractive young man interrupts acclaimed novelist Patricia Highsmith at her reclusive home. When might the publishers expect the next anticipated addition to her sinister ...
The Night Alive
2/3 - 3/15/2015
Conor McPherson; dir: Randall Arney....
Gil Cates Theater:
6/10 - 7/20/2014
The Country House Donald Margulies; dir: Daniel Sullivan....
Ruth Draper's Monologues
4/8 - 5/18/2014
Ruth Draper....
Slowgirl
3/4 - 4/20/2014
Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater: Greg Pierce; dir: Randall Arney....
The Birthday Party
2/4 - 3/16/2014
Gil Cates Theater: Harold Pinter; dir: William Friedkin....
Play Dead
11/5 - 12/15/2013
Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater: Todd Robbins....
Wait Until Dark
10/8 - 11/17/2013
A blind housewife becomes the target of three con-men searching for heroin hidden in a doll that her husband innocently brought back from Canada. This ...
Rapture, Blister, Burn
8/13 - 9/22/2013
Gina Gionfriddo; dir: Peter DuBois....
Yes, Prime Minister
6/4 - 7/14/2013
Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey Appleby are back - and on stage - in the biggest West End comedy hit of the year. Now it's ...
The Judy Show - My Life As A Sitcom
5/7 - 6/16/2013
Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater: - Judy Gold, Kate Moira Ryan; dir: Amanda Charlton....
American Buffalo
4/2 - 5/12/2013
Gil Cates Theater: - David Mamet; dir: Randall Arney....
Miss Julie
2/26 - 4/7/2013
Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater: - adapt: Neil LaBute from August Strindberg; dir: Neil LaBute....
The Gift
1/29 - 3/10/2013
Gil Cates Theater: - Joanna Murray-Smith; dir: Maria Aitken....
The Exorcist
7/3 - 8/12/2012
The most chilling test of faith come to life on stage. This world premiere adaptation of the famous 1971 novel documenting the terror and redemption ...
The Exorcist
7/13 - 8/12/2012
Documenting the terror and redemption of a ten-year-old girl is just as frightening as when the story was first told. The most chilling test of ...
A T-Rex is Loose
6/9
The Geffen Playouse Story Pirates, in partnership with the Natural History Museum, presents 'A T-Rex is Loose'! Made up of stories written by kids about ...
Mona Golabek in The Pianist of Willesden Lane
4/17 - 5/27/2012
Grammy-nominated pianist and storyteller Mona Golabek shares the gripping tale of a young girl who holds on to her music in order to stay alive. ...
Good People
4/3 - 5/13/2012
Margaret Walsh can't catch a break. Laid off from her job at the dollar store, South Boston is providing her the same level of opportunity ...
The Jacksonian
2/7 - 3/18/2012
Funky Punks
3/3
A high-energy, interactive circus extraveganza including stilt-walkers, puppets, jugglers, tramplone tricksters and even a plunger! Get ready for a night like no other with the ...
Join the Geffen Playhouse for a rediscovery of timeles tales from around the world, through clowning acts, puppertry and shadow theater...
Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins
1/13 - 2/19/2012
The story of the late Molly Ivins, the old school maverick, fiercely independent newspaper columnist and a Texan with a capital T. She is the ...
NATHAN PACHECO
12/18
Nathan Pacheco presents a new musical world where pop and opera merge to form an incredible evening of entertainment, skill and elegance....
Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie
11/1 - 12/11/2011
California Institute of Technology - CALTECH PLAYREADERS...
Next Fall
10/25 - 12/4/2011
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
8/30 - 10/9/2011
Superior Donuts
5/31 - 7/10/2011
Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tracy Letts weaves a heart-warming and humorous tale of unlikely friendships in one of Chicago’s most diverse neighborhoods. ...
The Break of Noon
1/25 - 3/6/2011
Playwright and provocateur Neil LaBute’s newest play takes off from George Bernard Shaw’s quote: “All truths begin as blasphemies.” And then we meet John Smith. ...
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Change The Game
McCadden (6/9 - 6/16) NEW MUSICAL
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What The Constitution Means To Me
International City Theatre (5/2 - 5/19) | |
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Footloose The Musical
Mira Costa High School (4/26 - 5/4)
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VOX Cabaret
Catalina Jazz Club (5/5 - 5/5) | |
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Kairos
David Henry Hwang Theater (4/4 - 4/28) COMEDY NEW PLAY
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Spring Awakening
The Broadwater Mainstage (4/26 - 5/11) | |
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PRELUDE TO A KISS, THE MUSICAL
South Coast Repertory (4/5 - 5/4) | |
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Green Umbrella Series: April 30 Pan-American New Music
Walt Disney Concert Hall (4/30 - 4/30) | |
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A View From the Bridge
Theatre Palisades (3/29 - 4/28) | |
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Laural Meade’s Ms. Tucker Will See You Now
Gardenia Supper Club (4/6 - 6/1) | |
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We're Not Your Cup of Tea
Theatre West (5/11 - 5/11) | |
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Misalliance
A Noise Within (5/12 - 6/9) | |
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