The Geffen Playhouse 2023/2024 season is in full swing and includes performances at the Gil Cates and Audrey Skirball Kenis Theaters. The season launched on September 6, 2023, and runs through July 14, 2024. The seven-show season will feature a mix of world premieres, West Coast premieres and one Los Angeles premiere.
Geffen Playhouse 2023/2024 Season
The 2023/2024 Gil Cates Theater season will launch with the West Coast premiere of The Engagement Party from playwright Samuel Baum, a secret-laden comedy that takes a dark and unexpected turn when a celebration goes horribly awry, irrevocably changing the lives of everyone involved. Next, the Los Angeles premiere of Selina Fillinger’s POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive debuts in the Gil Cates Theater. It is a riotous and irreverent farce about the men who hold the power versus the women who get the job done.
The Gil Cates Theater
The Gil Cates Theater season will continue with the West Coast premiere of the Broadway production of James Ijames’ Fat Ham, his Pulitzer Prize-winning take on Hamlet, where we meet Juicy, a young, queer Black man with a Shakespearean-sized dilemma. Closing the Gil Cates Theater lineup will be the West Coast premiere of Mike Lew’s heartfelt new play, tiny father.
The Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater
The 2023/2024 Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater season will get off to a humorous start with Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe’s Every Brilliant Thing, featuring Daniel K. Isaac (Billions) inviting the audience on a transcendent and tender coming-of-age journey that reminds us to pay attention to life’s smallest joys—and to each other. Immediately following in the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater will be two world premieres, beginning with Kristen Adele Calhoun’s Black Cypress Bayou, a hilarious, suspenseful tale of loyalty, healing and comeuppance. Closing out the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater season will be the world premiere of The Hope Theory, an entirely new magical experience from the creators of Invisible Tango, The Present and The Future. Written and performed by magician and storyteller Helder Guimarães and directed by Frank Marshall, The Hope Theory offers a unique perspective on America through the eyes of an optimistic outsider. In a Geffen Playhouse first – Five performances of The Hope Theory (La Teroía de la Esperanza) will be performed in Spanish.
The 2023/2024 season will also mark Geffen Playhouse’s transition to a schedule of seven performances per week, with shows running from Wednesday through Sunday. Find out more on the website – https://www.geffenplayhouse.org
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