Tag: Geffen Playhouse

Opinion, Theatre

Los Angeles Theatre, Let’s Talk About Palestine

Edward Hong

To the Los Angeles theatre community, I love you and I adore you. I’ve been part of you for the past 15 years and despite the many challenges I have come across when it comes to meaningful representation and opportunities, I will always cherish the countless memories we have experienced and will continue to experience together as an artist and as a critic. But I think it’s time we desperately need to talk about the one subject that you have been avoiding for so long — Palestine.

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Theatre

A Round of Applause for The Writers’ Room at Geffen Playhouse for 2024-25

Edward Hong

Geffen Playhouse today announced its selection of LA-based writers to participate in the 2024/2025 cycle of The Writers’ Room, a forum for engagement and collaboration between Los Angeles playwrights. The participants are Sunny Drake, Keiko Green, Andrew Zepeda Klein, maatin, Samah Meghjee, and James Anthony Tyler. There are some serious global majority representation in this writers’ group so we can’t wait to see their work in the coming years! Read on to learn more about them.

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Reviews, Theatre1 Comment

A Los Angeles Theatre Review: ‘The Brothers Size’

Edward Hong

With The Brothers Size now performing at the Geffen Playhouse, this production kicks off the inaugural season of Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director Tarell Alvin McCraney whose play (that he also wrote) currently celebrates its 20th anniversary in the intimate Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.

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Reviews, Theatre

A Los Angeles Theatre Review: ‘Tiny Father’

Edward Hong

The Geffen Playhouse production of Tiny Father is an interesting play as it boasts an impressive array of talent with the playwright Mike Lew and his frequent theatre director collaborator & Tony Award-nominated Moritz von Stuelpnagel.

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Theatre

‘Every Brilliant Thing’ to be Performed by Daniel K. Isaac

Edward Hong

Rehearsals have begun for Geffen Playhouse’s production of Every Brilliant Thing, written by Olivier Award–nominated playwright Duncan Macmillan (Lungs; People, Places, and Things) with Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, and Off-Broadway Alliance Award nominee Jonny Donahoe (Thirty Christmases, Forgiveness).

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Reviews, Theatre

A Los Angeles Theatre Review: ‘The Ants’

Edward Hong

Have you ever seen theatre that felt more like a defibrillator coursing electricity through your entire being, rather than the kind that makes (most) people snooze away? Then that is exactly the sensation you will be getting in the Geffen Playhouse’s latest production and world premiere of Ramiz Monsef‘s The Ants, directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh, and starring Hugo Armstrong, Nicky Boulos, Megan Hill, Jeremy Radin, and Ryan Shrime.

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