Geffen Playhouse

KEY LARGO at Geffen Playhouse

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Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen  Key Largo was first a 1939 Broadway play, then a 1948 film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and finally, it is now at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles in a new world premiere adaptation. Adapted by Andy Garcia and Jeffrey Hatcher, this play shifts some of the … Read more

THE THANKSGIVING PLAY at Geffen Playhouse

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Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen  The version of Thanksgiving most of us were taught in school is certainly problematic. From outdated, disrespectful views of Native Americans and erasure of their role to the generous portrayals of the first white settlers on this continent, the narrative around the whole holiday is due for reexamination. … Read more

SKINTIGHT at Geffen Playhouse

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Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen Jodi Isaac (Idina Menzel) is feeling insecure. On paper, there’s no reason she should be—she is a successful lawyer at a top firm in Los Angeles, she has more or less successfully raised two young adult sons, and her father is a fashion retail mogul. But her husband … Read more

WITCH at Geffen Playhouse

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Terry Morgan  –  Talkin’ Broadway When The Witch of Edmonton (written by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford) premiered in 1621, its tale of a woman selling her soul to the devil to gain revenge on her neighbors was played as a tragic drama. Jen Silverman’s new version of the story, simply titled Witch, … Read more

MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES at Geffen Playhouse

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Terry Morgan  – Talkin’ Broadway The old maxim states that truth is stranger than fiction, but sometimes truth isn’t quite that bold and merely approaches the outlandishness of prose. Such is the case of Richard Lancelyn Green, the subject of a New Yorker article, a Sherlock Holmes expert who was found dead in his apartment … Read more

BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA at the Geffen Playhouse

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Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw It’s hard to imagine a more painful life event than the death of a child — especially when that child is shot by police and the perpetrator goes free. That almost unbearable grief that a mother must feel is creatively addressed in Black Super Hero Magic Mama, Inda Craig-Galván’s latest play….Read more… … Read more

HUGHIE and KRAPP’S LAST TAPE at the Geffen Playhouse

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Jonas Schwartz –  TheaterMania Brian Dennehy, who won one of his two Tony Awards as iconic Eugene O’Neill protagonist James Tyrone in a 2003 production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, returns to the author’s milieu with the one-act Hughie, another tale of addiction and emotional ghosts.Read more… Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw In Hughie & Krapp’s Last … Read more

CHARLES DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Geffen Playhouse

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Jonas Schwartz –  TheaterMania The world premiere of this new adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol draws out the chills and thrills of this ghostly tale while still conveying the joy inherent in the famous parable about goodwill toward all men.Read more… Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Suppose you’re a veteran theater goer, one without children … Read more

THE CAKE at the Geffen Playhouse

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Jonas Schwartz –  TheaterMania In this political climate, it is very easy to demonize those who think differently, particularly when their beliefs infringe on others’ rights. The right to refuse service to members of the LGBTQ community has become explosive, going all the way to the Supreme Court, where the issue has still not been … Read more