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The Exorcist, Geffen Playhouse
Production photo by Michael Lamont. The Exorcist by John Pielmeier. Pauline Adamek – ArtsBeatLA The Geffen Playhouse have commissioned John Pielmeier to adapt author William Peter Blatty’s...
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The Pianist Of Willesden Lane, Geffen Playhouse
Photo by Michael Lamont. The Pianist Of Willesden Lane by Mona Golabek. Mayank Keshaviah – LA Weekly History is most powerful when we see the “all” through the small — the panorama of the textbook...
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By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Geffen Playhouse
Photo by Michael Lamont. By the Way, Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage. Terry Morgan – LAist.com Lynn Nottage’s play, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, is more intriguing as a concept than a reality. It...
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MISS JULIE at the Geffen Playhouse
MISS JULIE by August Strindberg. Pauline Adamek – ArtsBeatLA Turn-of-the-century Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s naturalistic drama Miss Julie was remarkable in its day for its scandalous...
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Yes, Prime Minister at the Geffen Playhouse
Tamara Summers, Dakin Matthews, Jefferson Mays, and Michael McKeanPhoto by Michael Lamont Dany Margolies – Arts In LA Before you hear this production described as “sitcomish,” know it was written by...
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THE JUDY SHOW at the AUDREY SKIRBALL KENIS THEATER at the GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE
Dany Margolies - Arts In LA One will glean from her solo show that Judy Gold desperately wants her own sitcom, in part to promote her personal history of ultimately earning acceptance from her...
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RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN at the Geffen Playhouse
Photo by Michael Lamont Bob Verini - ArtsInLA Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn is a report from the feminist front. Folded within a thin narrative is a lot of intriguing conversation, which...
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WAIT UNTIL DARK at the Geffen Playhouse
Photo by Michael Lamont Dany Margolies - Arts In LA Suspense and suspension hallmark this sleek production. At the play’s climax, on opening night, no breathing could be heard among the audience...
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PLAY DEAD at the Geffen Playhouse
Photo by Michael Lamont Pauline Adamek – ArtsBeatLA Striking a perfect balance between scares and laughs, Play Dead delivers plenty of delicious thrills, macabre chills and giggles. The one-act show...
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I’LL EAT YOU LAST: A CHAT WITH SUE MENGERS at the Geffen Playhouse
Neal Weaver – LA Weekly Bette Midler and Hollywood super-agent Sue Mengers have many things in common: both were self-invented, and both are marked by a large dollop of sass and brass, a mean wit and a...
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SLOWGIRL at the Geffen Playhouse
Photo by Katie Falkenberg Margaret Gray – LA Times In Greg Pierce’s “Slowgirl” at the Geffen Playhouse, 17-year-old Becky (Rae Gray) comes to visit her Uncle Sterling (William Petersen), who left the...
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RUTH DRAPER’S MONOLOGUES at the Geffen Playhouse
Photo by Allen J. Schaben Pauline Adamek – ArtsbeatLA Four monologues written by diseuse Ruth Draper are brilliantly performed by Annette Bening as a 90-minute one act evening of entertainment. This...
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DEATH OF THE AUTHOR at the Geffen Playhouse
Photo by Michael Lamont Bob Verini - Arts In LA Steven Drukman’s Death of the Author is, hands down, one of the very best plays of the year. A mystery wrapped within a psychological portrait gallery...
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THE COUNTRY HOUSE at the Geffen Playhouse
Photo by Michael Lamont Myron Meisel – The Hollywood Reporter Given the omnipresent influence of Anton Chekhov on the theater of the past century, it seems surprisingly irresistible for playwrights to...
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DIXIE’S TUPPERWARE PARTY at the Geffen Playhouse
Photo by Bradford Rogne Bob Verini - Arts In LA The good graces of the Geffen Playhouse are responsible for Los Angeles’ introduction to one Dixie Longate: Alabama native, single mom, social critic,...
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REASONS TO BE PRETTY at the Geffen Playhouse
Photo by Michael Lamont Neal Weaver – Arts In LA Playwright Neil LaBute is so prolific, and has created in so many different and varied media, that it’s virtually impossible to generalize about his...
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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, CHARLES DICKENS AND COUNT LEO...
Photo by Michael Lamont Myron Meisel – The Hollywood Reporter Sporting a title so long that the average online reader might not even get through it, Discord reconfigures Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit...
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HERSHEY FELDER AS IRVING BERLIN at the Geffen Playhouse
Photo courtesy Geffen Playhouse Bob Verini - Stage Raw Jerome Kern, no mean tunesmith, had a famous retort when asked about Irving Berlin’s place in American music. He has none, the Show Boat...
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THE NIGHT ALIVE at the Geffen Playhouse
Photo by Michael Lamont Dany Margolies - Arts In LA This Conor McPherson script fits squarely within his oeuvre—of poetic plays about souls seeking human connection in the midst of supernatural...
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SWITZERLAND at the Geffen Playhouse
Photo by Michael Lamont Bob Verini – Variety Writers of crime fiction are rarely as brutal or twisted as the characters they create. But meet Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995), by general agreement a...
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