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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 acoustics and sight lines. 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 has changed th … Moree cultural landscape of Los Angeles' Westside, growing into a vital performing arts organization with over 100,000 annual attendees. Artists seen on the Geffen stage include Peter Falk, Jason Alexander, Annette Bening, Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Perkins, Parker Posey, Martin Short and and Lawrence Kasdan.
The Geffen Playhouse was originally built in 1929 as the Masonic Affiliates Club for students and alumni of the new University of California Los Angeles. It was one of the first 12 structures built in Westwood Village. Less
A winner of virtually every major L.A. theater award, the local musical phenomenon Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara continues at the Geffen's Skirball-Kenis Theater, with Oscar-winner Taylor Hackford directing. Inspired by the true story of swinging Vegas lounge act Louis Prima and Keely Smith, the show includes classic hits like "Embraceable You" and "Just a Gigolo." Learn more...
Through his top-rated Comedy Central specials, Mike Birbiglia has emerged as one of the hottest young comics in recent years. In his new one-man show, Sleepwalk with Me, Mike explores his fears of love, honesty, and death, and discusses how his bouts with sleepwalking nearly killed him. The Geffen's Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theatre is the venue for this exclusive limited-run reading of the show, which begins its Off-Broadway run in November. Learn more...
The Geffen Playhouse presents the west coast premiere of Some Girl(s), written and directed by Neil LaBute, who wrote and directed the films "In the Company of Men," "Your Friends & Neighbors," "Possession," and "The Wicker Man." Some Girl(s) is the story of Guy, who is about to get married and decides to make amends to some girls from his past--in a painfully funny way. Learn more...
Starring Laurie Metcalf, JoBeth Williams, Scott Bakula and Dennis Boutsikaris, The Quality of Life takes on tough socio-political questions and personalizes them with questions about morality, self-righteousness and our right to live and die by our own design. It's the story of Dinah and Bill, a conservative Christian Midwestern couple who decide to visit their left-leaning cousins, Jeannette and Neil. Learn more...
With Fat Pig, LaBute sends up our carb-counting extreme makeover nation by asking questions not easy to answer. Tom is a young career guy who hits it off with a woman named Helen, who happens to be a touch large. As he reluctantly finds himself falling in love with Helen, he is challenged by the opinions of his friends and coworkers. Learn more...
The Geffen Playhouse presents Jeffrey Hatcher's A Picasso, starring Roma Downey (Touched By An Angel) and Peter Michael Goetz (Glory, The World According to Garp). Set in 1941, during the German occupation of Paris, A Picasso imagines what it would be like to sit at a table with Pablo Picasso for a verbal joust about art, sex and politics. Learn more...
The Geffen Playhouse presents celebrated actress Angela Lansbury and collaborator Frank Dunlop in a limited engagement reading of Oscar and the Lady In Pink by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, an uplifting novella about a young boy finding faith as he copes with terminal illness. Learn more...
Six Feet Under and The West Wing writer Rick Cleveland spills the dirt on his fantastic friendship with Bill Clinton: one day he's on a tour of the White House, the next he's playing catch at the beach with the First Dog and flying with the ex-prez in George Harrison's jet to Amsterdam. But can their friendship survive the perils of politics? Learn more...
