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Join us for the 2026/2027 Season at Geffen Playhouse!
11.11 – 12.13.2026
Direct from Broadway, the 2025 Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning play Purpose makes its LA debut with the original Broadway cast, directed by the incomparable Phylicia Rashad.
Gil Cates Theater
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01.27 – 02.28.2027
Following its smash Broadway run, Liberation makes its West Coast debut with sharp wit, emotional insight, and fearless ambition to challenge the status quo.
03.03 – 04.04.2027
Told with raw honesty and lyrical intensity, The Monsters explores the complicated intimacy of sibling relationships when family can be both a sanctuary and a battlefield.
Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater
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03.31 – 05.02.2027
Closing Costs is a whip-smart send-up of the absurdity of trying to buy a home in Los Angeles, where the market is cutthroat, the wiring is questionable, and everyone is just one inspection away from disaster.
06.02 – 07.04.2027
With incisive humor and unflinching honesty, Wine in the Wilderness interrogates class, colorism, gender, and the politics of representation, asking who gets to define beauty, respectability, and worth.
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Introducing the new season curated by Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director Tarell Alvin McCraney, featuring Los Angeles, West Coast, and world premieres, including the Tony Award–winning Best Play Purpose.
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LOS ANGELES PREMIEREGIL CATES THEATER
Written by Branden Jacobs-JenkinsDirected by Phylicia RashadFeaturing Alana Arenas, Glenn Davis, Jon Michael Hill, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Harry Lennix & Kara Young
Meet the Jaspers: generations of a powerful Black political family under one roof where nothing stays buried for long. When their youngest son returns home, instincts kick in to protect their public image of leadership and moral authority, and fractures soon appear as private grievances, betrayals, and long-simmering questions of identity rise to the surface.
Direct from Broadway, this 2025 Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning play makes its LA debut with the original Broadway cast, directed by the incomparable Phylicia Rashad. Both intimate and epic, Purpose is provocative, often hilarious, and ultimately a devastating exploration of legacy and the cost of believing in something bigger than yourself.
Originally Produced on Broadway by David Stone, Debra Martin Chase, Marc Platt, LaChanze, Rashad V. Chambers, Aaron Glick, Universal Theatrical Group, Eastern Standard Time, Trate Productions, Nancy Nagel Gibbs, James L. Nederlander, John Gore, ATG Entertainment, The Shubert Organization, and Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
ORIGINAL TONY AWARD–WINNING CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
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WEST COAST PREMIEREGIL CATES THEATER
Written by Bess WohlDirected by Whitney White
Following its smash Broadway run, Liberation makes its West Coast debut with sharp wit, emotional insight, and fearless ambition to challenge the status quo. It’s 1970, somewhere in Ohio: six women gather in a basement gymnasium for a consciousness raising group, determined to shake up their lives and change the world. These meetings quickly become complicated—friendships are tested, alliances shift, the personal becomes political and vice versa, ultimately calling into question the very meaning of freedom itself.
Directed by Tony Award nominee Whitney White, this daring and sharply funny new play explores what it truly means to claim power, both on your own and together, and reminds us that revolution is never simple, but always worth the fight.
WORLD PREMIEREGIL CATES THEATER
Written by Grace McLeodDirected by Hannah WolfProduced in Association with IAMA Theatre Company
Housing prices in LA are already criminal, but in this home, they may actually be fatal. A scrappy real estate agent and her Uber-driving boyfriend are secretly living in the “luxury” property she’s desperate to sell: a disastrously flipped fever dream where corners are cut and nothing works the way it should. When the home’s bro developer shows up, things go from unethical to unhinged.
A newly successful gay couple and a pregnant lesbian couple spiral into a bidding war over the supposedly hot property as the agent and her boyfriend scramble to keep the sale alive—and the skeletons in the closet—in a perfectly escalating farce. Closing Costs is a whip-smart send-up of the absurdity of trying to buy a home in Los Angeles, where the market is cutthroat, the wiring is questionable, and everyone is just one inspection away from disaster.
GIL CATES THEATER
Written by Alice ChildressDirected by LaChanzeProduced in Association with LaChanze Productions
Set during the height of the 1964 Harlem riot, Wine in the Wilderness unfolds in the apartment of Bill Jameson, a painter determined to capture “the essence” of Black womanhood in his latest triptych. As friends take shelter from the rising tensions outside, the arrival of a young woman disrupts Bill’s carefully constructed vision and exposes the assumptions, judgments, and hierarchies shaping both his art and his community.
With incisive humor and unflinching honesty, Alice Childress’s play interrogates class, colorism, gender, and the politics of representation, asking who gets to define beauty, respectability, and worth. Under the direction of Broadway legend LaChanze, this production foregrounds the play’s emotional immediacy and radical compassion, revealing a story that feels as urgent today as when it was first written.
LOS ANGELES PREMIEREAUDREY SKIRBALL KENIS THEATER
Written by Ngozi AnyanwuDirected by Awoye TimpoFeaturing Ngozi AnyanwuAdditional casting to be announced
As a seasoned MMA fighter at the end of his career, Big reluctantly agrees to coach his younger sister, Lil, a fierce and hungry newcomer with something to prove. But years of distance, resentment, and unresolved pain simmer beneath every training session. Does Big have what it takes to make Lil a champion… or will their past knock them both out?
Told with raw honesty and lyrical intensity, The Monsters explores the complicated intimacy of sibling relationships when family can be both a sanctuary and a battlefield. With sharp dialogue and moments of surprising tenderness, this sibling love story examines the ways we protect one another, even when bruises stay hidden just under the surface.
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