Geffen Playhouse - Main Stage (Los Angeles, CA)
Direct from Broadway, the Geffen Playhouse presents Rabbit Hole, nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Play. Rabbit Hole takes place in the contemporary suburban household of Becca and Howie, a young couple that has experienced the unthinkable loss of their son. Becca and Howie struggle to become unstuck and fill the hole that has been blown in their marriage.
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Great play and performances. I think it is closed now, but I would highly recommend it.
The Geffen Playhouse is newly renovated, closing for over a year, and re-opening in November of 2005. The renovations are stunning, and provide for improved accoustics and sitelines. In addition to the Main Stage there is now the more intimate Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theater, which will focus on newer works for the Los Angeles community.
In just a few years, the Geffen Playhouse ha... More
David Lindsay-Abaire, Writer
David Lindsay-Abaire's newest play Rabbit Hole recently premiered on Broadway at Manhattan Theater Club’s Biltmore Theater, and was nominated for three Drama League Awards and five Tonys, including Best Play of the Year. His first play with MTC, Fuddy Meers, premiered in 1999 and transferred to the Minetta Lane Theatre for a commercial run. It has since received over 300 productions around the country and abroad, including on London’s West End. Wonder of the World was produced at MTC after premiering at Washington DC’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre, where it was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award as Outstanding New Play of the Year. Kimberly Akimbo was commissioned and premiered by South Coast Repertory and received the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for Playwriting, three Garland Awards and the Kesselring Prize before it opened at MTC in 2003, where it was hailed as “The Comedy of the Year” by The New York Times.
David is also currently working on the Broadway-bound musicals High Fidelity and Shrek. High Fidelity premieres at Boston’s Colonial Theater this October, before opening on Broadway in December. In addition to his work in theater, David is writing the screen adaptation of the novel Inkheart by Cornelia Funke for Newline Features as well as a screen adaptation of his play Kimberly Akimbo for Dreamworks. David is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Juilliard School, as well as a proud member of New Dramatists, the Dramatists Guild and the WGA.
Carolyn Cantor, Director
Carolyn Cantor directed the premiere reading of Rabbit Hole at the Pacific Playwright's Festival. She is the artistic director of Edge Theater Company in New York City. For Edge she has directed Living Room in Africa, Orange Flower Water, Now That's What I Call A Storm, Stone Cold Dead Serious and Life Is A Dream.
Other off-Broadway directing credits include EVE-olution for Cherry Lane Theatre and Kitty Kitty Kitty for the Summer Play Festival. Regional credits include The Diary of Anne Frank for the Paper Mill Playhouse, The King Stag for the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Get What You Need for New York Stage and Film, Finer Noble Gases and After Ashley for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwright's Conference, Nocturne for the Ojai Playwright's Conference, among others. She has also been the recipient of a Drama League Directing Fellowship and the Boris Segal and Bill Foeller Fellowships from the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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