Posts Tagged ‘Geffen Playhouse’
“Master Harold”…and the boys
Saturday, April 18th, 2026The miscasting of 31-year-old Ben Beatty as the teenage title character of Athol Fugard’s “Master Harold”…and the boys derails the Geffen Playhouse production of the South African writer’s most celebrated play in ways that even the magnificent John Kani can’t overcome.
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SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA
Saturday, February 14th, 2026Haunted house stories can be both thrilling and entertaining. There is, unfortunately, little fun to be had inside the Beacon Hill apartment occupied by blocked, depressed writer Sally in the present day and in the 1950s by her more celebrated (albeit equally depressed) 20th-century counterpart in Sylvia Sylvia Sylvia, Beth Hyland’s downer of a World Premiere at Westwood’s Geffen Playhouse.
TABLE 17
Friday, November 14th, 2025
Audiences are invited to talk back to the exes who reunite at a trendy night spot to rehash the past and maybe, just possibly get back together in the MCC Theater production of Douglas Lyons’ raucously funny off-Broadway hit Table 17, imported to L.A. by the Geffen Playhouse precisely when stressed-out Angelinos need it most.
THE RESERVOIR
Saturday, June 28th, 2025
Two talented Jakes make stunning Geffen Playhouse debuts in The Reservoir, Jake Brasch’s hilarious, heartbreaking, ultimately hopeful look at alcoholism and Alzheimer’s that has rising star Jake Horowitz standing in for the playwright in one of the year’s most captivating performances.
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NOISES OFF
Saturday, February 8th, 2025
Westwood’s esteemed Geffen Playhouse and Chicago’s illustrious Steppenwolf Theatre Company join creative forces to give L.A. audiences a fabulously entertaining revival of what may well be the most inventive and uproarious farce ever written, Michael Frayn’s Noises Off.
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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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