The Geffen Playhouse News

The Roots and Wings Project will present the world premiere of Luminous Streets in Highland Park, Los Angeles, September 12–28, 2025. This site-specific theatrical tour will feature new plays by Roger Q. Mason, Jesse Bliss, and others, performed in venues along York Boulevard.

Golden Globe winner Scott Bakula will star in The Baker’s Wife at Classic Stage Company as Aimable Castagnet alongside Ariana DeBose. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets!

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is August 11, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Following a run at The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, AVA: The Secret Conversations, written by and starring Elizabeth McGovern just made its New York premiere at NY City Center, Stage I. Check out photos from inside the opening night gala celebration below!

Following a run at The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, AVA: The Secret Conversations, written by and starring Downton Abbey star Elizabeth McGovern is making its New York premiere! Read reviews for the production!

The full cast has been announced for Talene Monahon’s MEET THE CARTOZIANS, directed by Tony Award-winner David Cromer. The world premiere production kicks off Second Stage Theater’s  47th Season. We have all of the details here!

Rehearsals begin for Geffen Playhouse's world premiere production of Am I Roxie?, written and performed by Roxana Ortega and directed by Bernardo Cubría. Learn more here!

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis announced two dynamic plays to round out its 59th anniversary season, along with the directors and creative teams.

Following a sold-out run at Rogue Machine in 2024, Committed? A Ritual for Robbie, written and performed by Lisa Robins and directed by Mitch Levine, will return for a limited encore engagement at Beverly Hills Playhouse from August 1–17, 2025.

Rogue Machine has added a co-production with HorseChart Theatre alongside their 2025 Season. Directed by Matthew McCray, the production will feature Samantha Klein, Brett Aune, Alley Mills Bean, and Jim Ortlieb.  

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is July 2, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Following a run at The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, AVA: The Secret Conversations, written by and starring Elizabeth McGovern is preparing to make its New York premiere! Check out photos of the cast meeting the press here!

What did our critic think of THE RESERVOIR at Geffen Playhouse Gil Cates Theater? “Well, the Geffen sure knows their audience,” remarked my guest at the media preview of, THE RESERVOIR.  And I’d have to agree.  Between the spontaneous audience call backs, guffaws, tears, and chant-alongs that happened much in the second act, it’s probably safe to say, the show’s a hit.

Award-winning composer Lewis Flinn, along with special guests Julie Benko (Broadway's Funny Girl) and Susanna Phillips (Metropolitan Opera) will perform a one-night-only concert at the Laurie Beechman Theatre (407 W 42nd St) this Friday, June 20 at 7PM, doors opening at 5:30PM. 

This production is erotic, evocative, lean as a bone and, at a certain point, leaves HAMLET behind entirely. Director Robert O'Hara (SLAVE PLAY, BARBECUE) cracks HAMLET open, exposes it to the sun and then keeps on probing.

AVA: The Secret Conversations, written by and starring Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Emmy Award-nominated actress and Evanston native Elizabeth McGovern, will make its Chicago premiere. Learn more!

Amidst a national funding crisis, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference will return to McCall, Idaho June 2-14 to celebrate its 25th year with a powerful lineup of new plays and events.

The Cape Cod Theatre Project has revealed its 31st Season of New Plays, running weekend nights in July from July 3 through July 26 at Falmouth Academy's Simon Center for the Arts. See the lineup and learn more!

The Vagrancy will present a world premiere staged reading as part of Blossoming 2025, its celebrated new play development series. The reading will take place Wednesday, May 21 at 7 PM at Skylight Theatre.

Apple has just released the trailer for Lulu Is a Rhinoceros, the new musical special featuring Broadway alums Auli’i Cravalho, Alex Newell, Dulé Hill, and Utkarsh Ambudkar. Watch it now!