The Geffen Playhouse hosted “WHAT IT IZ: The Spoken Wordical” on Dec. 6-7, a groundbreaking hip hop theater production written by formerly incarcerated and system-impacted artists.
Tarell Alvin McCraney, Academy Award winner and artistic director of Geffen Playhouse, has launched “Black Out Nights” and “Black Partner Appreciation Nights” to attract Black patrons and Black community organizations to the Westwood theater.
Malcolm Mays stars in the upcoming production of the Tarell Alvin McCraney stage play “The Brothers Size” at the Geffen Playhouse, August 14 through September 8, 2024.
He continued, “In the Yoruba tradition, Ogun, Oshoosi, and Elegba come to you together. They are three warriors, and in this story of these three men named after these three ancestors – they’ll always be connected.”
Like Marty in “The Neighborhood,” Spears’ character “Juicy” in “Fat Ham” is also having a coming-of-age moment. In the original Shakespearean work, Hamlet is addressed by his dead father’s ghost to avenge his murder at a wedding banquet.
Evans says the first thing that resonated with her about the “Black Cypress Bayou” script was the dialect, because it reminded her of where she grew up. “It felt like when I read Katori Hall’s words,” Evans said. “I remember when I got “P-Valley’s script, I said, ‘It feels like home,’ and that’s what ‘Black Cypress Bayou’ feels like. It feels like home.”
“There are so many messages we get, particularly here in the U.S., that don’t point us towards love for Black folks. And any time we can declare that love boldly, it is important to balance the scale of the messaging we’ve been fed for generations,” said Calhoun.
Tarell Alvin McCraney is the Oscar-winning screenwriter of the groundbreaking film “Moonlight,” the creator and co-executive producer of the OWN TV series “David Makes Man,” and the new artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse.
Dominique Morisseau’s theatrical production of “Paradise Blue” is a drama about Black life in post-World War II Detroit, Michigan. The story touches on gentrification, Black affluence, mystery, vindication and redemption.
Inda’s Craig-Galván’s play tackling media and police brutality will run at the Geffen Playhouse through April 14.
Featuring Gisela Adisa, Connor Amacio Matthews, Bryan Dobson, Mary-Pat Green, Dulé Hill,
Ruby Lewis, Zonya Love, Brandon Ruiter And Daniel J. Watts
The highly acclaimed musical, “Lights Out: Nat ‘King’ Cole,” is here on the West Coast at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood until March 24. After seeing the musical during a sold out run in Philadelphia, the Geffen Playhouse made sure to bring a production of it to Los Angeles.