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Full Cast Set For WAITING FOR GODOT at Geffen Playhouse


by Stephi Wild - October 01, 2024

Geffen Playhouse has announced the full cast for Waiting for Godot, written by Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett (Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape) and directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett (The Realistic Joneses, How It Is). ...

The Hollywood Theatre Club Kicks Off TodayTix's LA Theatre Week With Sunset Rooftop Party


by A.A. Cristi - September 06, 2024

Hollywood Theatre Club announced a historic gathering of L.A.'s artistic directors for the first time, fostering collaboration and dialogue among the city's leading theatre visionaries....

Cast Set For THE BROTHERS SIZE at Geffen Playhouse


by Stephi Wild - June 25, 2024

Geffen Playhouse has announced the full cast for The Brothers Size, written by Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director and Academy Award winner Tarell Alvin McCraney and directed by Olivier Award-nominated Bijan Sheibani....

Review: THE HOPE THEORY at Geffen Playhouse


by Harker Jones - May 07, 2024

Every immigrant experience is unique and Guimarães’ story is a deeply engaging rumination on the power of faith and the capacity of hope to see one through....

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....

VIDEO: Tarell Alvin McCraney On His Vision for the Geffen Playhouse


by Joshua Wright - January 04, 2024

Watch as Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director Tarrell Alvin McCraney talks about his plans for the storied theatre's upcoming season and beyond....

Christopher Ashley to Talk THE UNTITLED UNAUTHORIZED HUNTER S. THOMPSON MUSICAL On 'Bob Barth's One Night Stand'


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 21, 2023

Get ready for an enlightening evening of theater talk as Christopher Ashley, the Artistic Director of the acclaimed La Jolla Playhouse, joins host Bob Barth on 'Bob Barth's One Night Stand.' ...

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney Named Artistic Director of the Geffen Playhouse


by Stephi Wild - September 12, 2023

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney has been appointed artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse. Learn more about McCraney here!...

Cast Revealed For Horror Play THE ANTS At Geffen Playhouse


by Stephi Wild - May 23, 2023

Geffen Playhouse has announced the full cast for its world premiere production of The Ants, written by Ramiz Monsef (The Unfortunates, 3 Farids) and directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh (Vietgone, Queen). Find out who is starring in the show here!...

Review: AVA: THE SECRET CONVERSATIONS At The Geffen


by Tracey Paleo - April 18, 2023

Elizabeth McGovern gets downright gritty in a gutsy, full-blown exploration of one of Hollywood’s most meta-femmes fatales in AVA: THE SECRET CONVERSATIONS....

Past Shows

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


Gil Cates Theater: Revenge Song: A Vampire Cowboys Creation...

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 ...

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....

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 ...


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 ...


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....


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
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 ...


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 Jacksonian
The Jacksonian
2/7 - 3/18/2012


California Institute of Technology - CALTECH PLAYREADERS...

Next Fall
10/25 - 12/4/2011

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