The Geffen Playhouse News

With complex characterizations, whip-smart dialogue, and vibrant, shrewd performances, the four women at the center of the show are alive from the second the lights go up.

PlayGround will present a simultaneous four-city gala honoring Margo Hall, Jessica Kubzansky, Emily Shooltz, and Ericka Ratcliff, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the June Anne Baker Prize for women and non-binary playwrights.

La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts has named Jason Daunter as its new Theatre Director. Mr. Daunter’s responsibilities include planning, organizing, and managing all aspects of the theatre, its rehearsal hall, and the staff.

Purpose has officially recouped its $5.25 million capitalization.  Recoupment was achieved with the aid of the New York State Tax Credit as well as the operating profits from Purpose's Broadway run.

Christine Dunford's solo show BURN SCAR, drawn from her experience fleeing the 2025 LA wildfires, will play three performances at Theatre of NOTE in Hollywood as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater will present the return of Jason Alexander for a special event, As Long As You’re Asking: A Conversation with Jason Alexander.

BroadwayWorld has just learned that Liberation, winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and recently nominated for five Tony Awards including Best Play, will be produced in London in 2027.

Obie Award-winning Harlem9 announced six playwrights, including Kermit Frazier, Kristen Adele Calhoun, and Naomi Lorrain, for 48HOURS IN…HARLEM®, marking 15 years of the festival with a tribute to the late Woodie King Jr.

WHAT SURVIVES, a new one-act play about a community reckoning with an ICE abduction, will have its world premiere at The Broadwater in Los Angeles during the Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Geffen Playhouse audiences are getting a rare opportunity to experience Athol Fugard's 'MASTER HAROLD'…AND THE BOYS, the deeply personal drama set in a 1950s South African tea shop where a single rainy afternoon exposes the realities of race, power, and betrayal between a white teenager and the two Black waiters who have helped raise him.

The Southland has had its share of memorable Fugard stagings, and the newly-opened revival of “MASTER HAROLD” at the Geffen Playhouse boasts an impressive roster of artists and creatives – onstage and off – who bring this tale vibrantly to life.

Two River Theater has announced its latest slate of commissioned artists, including Joe Iconis and Iraisa Ann Reilly, as part of its ongoing investment in new plays and musicals.

A miraculous hickey, a media frenzy, and a teenage girl at the center of it all drive The Jesus Hickey, a new comedy by award-winning playwright and director Luke Yankee, receiving a staged reading at the Spark Festival.

Laurie Metcalf is back on Broadway! The actress of stage and screen is back in New York, starring in Death of a Salesman. As Metcalf takes her next Broadway bow, we're looking back on some of her many iconic roles.

Write Out Loud announced a three-night run of MANO A MONOLOGUE, written and performed by David Fenner, at the Dottie Studio Theater in Liberty Station, San Diego, on April 27 and 28.

Performances are underway for the Roundabout Theatre Company production of Fallen Angels by Noël Coward, directed by Tony Award-nominee Scott Ellis. Meet the cast of Fallen Angels here!

The Echo Theater Company has revealed the winners of the company’s 2025 New Play Competition. Winners will receive cash prizes, meetings with Echo Theater creative teams, and more.

In this next chapter, Sara takes on many personas who interact with her mother during her lifetime, each one a standout as an individual through unique voice and movement thanks to Sara's great skill with improvisation.

Geffen Playhouse has unveiled five productions that will make up its 2026/2027 season lineup from Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director Tarell Alvin McCraney. The lineup will feature a mix of world, West Coast and Los Angeles premieres.

Performances are now underway for Second Stage Theater's Becky Shaw at Second Stage's Hayes Theater, ahead of an opening night on April 6. Meet the cast here!