Posts Tagged ‘Geffen Playhouse’
DRAGON LADY
Friday, September 13th, 2024
Broadway vet Sarah Porkalob pays loving tribute to her feisty Filipina grandmother while bringing to vivid life more than two dozen finely delineated characters and showing off exquisite three-octave pipes in her much lauded solo show Dragon Lady, now paying the most entertaining and compelling of visits to Westwood’s Geffen Playhouse.
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FAT HAM
Sunday, April 7th, 2024
Risk-taking, rule-breaking, exuberant joie de playwriting won James Ijames the Pulitzer Prize for his contemporary comedic queer African-American take on Hamlet, Fat Ham, now blowing audiences’ minds at the Geffen Playhouse.
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POTUS Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
Saturday, January 27th, 2024
Comedic chaos runs wild at the Geffen Playhouse in Selina Fillinger’s farcical, filthy, fabulously entertaining POTUS Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive.
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THE ENGAGEMENT PARTY
Saturday, October 14th, 2023
There’s probably never been an engagement party anywhere near as drama-packed as the one now occurring nightly in Westwood as the Geffen Playhouse treats Angelinos to the West Coast Premiere of Samuel Baum’s gasp-aloud, plot-twisty The Engagement Party.
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THE ANTS
Monday, July 3rd, 2023Ramiz Monsef’s horror play The Ants, now getting its World Premiere at the Geffen, has a gripping, suspenseful midsection. Its bizarre opening sequence and its even weirder, seemingly endless final scene are another matter.
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AVA: THE SECRET CONVERSATIONS
Saturday, April 15th, 2023
Elizabeth McGovern proves herself as accomplished a playwright as she is a gifted actress in Ava: The Secret Conversations, the Academy Award nominee’s fascinating look at the life and loves of screen goddess extraordinaire Ava Gardner.
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THE LONELY FEW
Saturday, March 18th, 2023Tony-winning sensation Lauren Patten returns to SoCal theater as a queer musician trapped in smalltown Kentucky in The Lonely Few, a Geffen Playhouse World Premiere that shifts somewhat jarringly halfway through from a dramatic play interspersed with live rock club performances into a more traditional musical in which songs take the place of dialog.
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THE INHERITANCE (PART 1 & PART 2)
Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
The words Epic Achievement only begin to describe the Stephen Daldry production of Matthew Lopez’s six-and-a-half-hour masterpiece The Inheritance (Part 1 & Part 2), now getting its long-awaited, celebration-worthy West Coast Premiere at the Geffen Playhouse.
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