Posts Tagged ‘Geffen Playhouse’
POWER OF SAIL
Saturday, February 19th, 2022
The consequences are catastrophic when a respected Ivy League professor invites an infamous white nationalist to speak at Harvard in Paul Grellong’s Power Of Sail, a powerhouse Geffen Playhouse West Coast Premiere sure to have audiences talking long after the lights go out, and not just because of Bryan Cranston’s riveting lead performance and Amy Brenneman’s fiery featured turn.
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PARADISE BLUE
Saturday, November 20th, 2021
A nightclub owner haunted by a lifetime of demons meets a woman who spells “trouble” with a capital T in Dominique Morisseau’s Paradise Blue, the kind of noir Hollywood could have made back in the late 1940s but didn’t, an explosive West Coast Premiere at the Geffen.
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KEY LARGO
Saturday, November 16th, 2019The Geffen Playhouse reboots a 1948 black-and-white movie classic live in living color in Jeffrey Hatcher and Andy Garcia’s rip-roaring World Premiere stage adaptation of the Bogie-&-Bacall suspense thriller Key Largo, directed with abundant flair by Tony winner Doug Hughes.
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SKINTIGHT
Saturday, September 14th, 2019Playwright Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Significant Other) is back at the Geffen with the uproariously funny, unexpectedly touching Skintight, a star vehicle if there ever was one for its wickedly talented leading lady.
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WITCH
Sunday, September 1st, 2019Is there something you want so badly that you’d give up your soul to get it? That is the question Jen Silverman poses in Witch, her devilishly clever, deliciously laugh-packed, decidedly dark look at gender, class, and the future of life as we know it, set way back in Jacobean England but told in a vernacular as contemporary as the latest Netflix hit.
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MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES
Saturday, June 22nd, 2019Truth is indeed stranger than fiction in Michael Mitnick’s time-traveling, mind-tripping look at the Mysterious Circumstances surrounding the still unsolved death of the world’s foremost Sherlock Holmes scholar.
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BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA
Friday, March 15th, 2019Playwright Inda Craig-Galván puts a personal face on a national epidemic in Black Super Hero Magic Mama, a Geffen Playhouse that scores points for originality provided you’re a fan of Marvel/DC blockbusters.
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LIGHTS OUT: NAT “KING” COLE
Saturday, February 16th, 2019The impending live broadcast of the 42nd and final episode of network TV’s first black-hosted variety show becomes an existential nightmare for its celebrated star in Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor’s Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole, a Geffen Playhouse West Coast premiere not without its problems but one well worth catching, and not just for the drama-song-and-dance showcase it provides its triple-threat star Dulé Hill.
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