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Geffen Playhouse’s 2025-26 season has Athol Fugard and Pearl Cleage plays

To date, the Taril Alvin opening season has extended at the head of the Jeffen Theater to a muscular revival of “The Brothers Size”, a joint production of “noise” and the stage of “waiting for Godot”.

Without the public’s knowledge, the period of the theater writer at the most prominent WestSide theater in the city included workshops for almost every production in the 2025-26 season. It is an effort to consolidate Geffen as a laboratory for artistic development and a platform for creative experience and developing new works.

“This was an idea that has become a dream that started,” the coach of the theater told the Times last week. “To get more time with plays, writers and directors, in advance – this may not look unique, but a lot of development process [in the industry] It has ended, especially in the areas where theaters tend to have already done theatrical programming. They are working in the process of rehearsal, but that time period focuses on the production itself.

“Especially with the first show to reach the world, you are like,” you must slow down, we need time for the book to reach the cap to the juice, where they can explore ideas, try things, or know how something can work, “continued.

“We make sure that, for these artists, you feel nutrition and get to know us as a production entity, we get to know you, and we create, we hope, life relationships in this way. We have already kept busy but we feel as if we are harvesting some great things, then share them with our fans and society, and plan to continue doing this.”

The Given 2025-26 season, which unveiled the donors and subscribers in the theater on Monday evening, begins with the first world performance of “Am I Roxy?” (From September 3 to October 5), written and performed by Roxana Ortega. At the exhibition of one woman, directed by Bernardo Cubia at the Gille Kitts Theater, Ortega transmits the chaos of her mental retreat with honesty, humor and strength of the soul, all while playing everything from an editor -in -law to Sherba.

Next is the first global presentation of “Little Boy/Littleman” (from October 1 to November 2), the story of two brothers Nicaraguan – one of which is a distance marketing, and the other is a defender poet – befriending the visions of the American dream. The production, directed by Nancy Medina at the Audrey Skirol Kennis Theater, mixes with live music and rituals in exploring her brotherhood and belonging.

“Nothing should be from anything else, you always want to be the beginning of something,” said Makrani from the first show of the season. “As a writer, I know that the first production can be obstructed if it is excessively produced or if it is pushed in a way that does not contain more growth. These pieces are [in the season] We have the possibility of growth, so we put them with directors who love new work and put these plays for a kind of expansion, because we want to see other theaters these first products and then we want to be part of this growth as well. “

Douglas Lyons, which will make “Table 17” the first show in the West Coast in Given next season.

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Then the Gil Kitts Theater welcomes the western coast of the movie “Table 17” in Douglas Lyon (from November 5 to 7), which is the romantic comedy in which the couple who was previously participated in a restaurant met, accidentally but carefully, so it was the past. Zhailon LeVingston is producing again, as it also operated it twice from Broadway-Premiere last year.

The new year begins with the first world presentation of “Silvia Silvia Silvia” in Beth Hilland (from 4 February to 8 March, 2026), about a novelist, wandering with the writer’s block and the growing fame of her husband. Directed by Joe Bonnie at the Gille Kitts Theater, The Tragicomic Reiller is exploring creativity, mania and the cost of creating art.

The season continues with the premiere of Los Angeles for “Dragon Mama” from Sara Porkalob (from March 4 to April 12, 2026), after her success in her tour “Dragon Lady”. Andrew Russell directs this batch of the dragon course at the Audrey Skirol Kennis Theater; This time, a single show with music centers is made on Burkalop’s mother, who forced her four brothers, an opportunity to chase her dreams.

“Sarah brought a level of intimate relationship with our fans through her production of” Dragon Lady “that we do not want to abandon,” said Macrani, who is still committed to the entire Burkalop trilogy in Los Angeles. “We want our fans to come with knowledge,” You will talk to us directly, bleed and sing with us. “

Sarah Burkalop starring "Dragon lady" In Geffen Playhouse earlier this season. It will lead "Mama Dragon" Next season.

Sarah Burkalop, starring “Dragon Lady” in Geffen Playhouse earlier this season. “Dragon Mama” will perform next season.

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After that, the deep -personal drama of Athol Fugard “Master Harold” … and children (from April 8 to 10 May 2026) takes over the Gil Cates Theater. It is located in the South Africa Tea Store during the apartheid system, the play -nominated play focuses on Tony on the son of the white owner in the store, the black parallels who helped to raise it and the charged conversations that challenge their bond Fragile and common.

“It is a play that I loved and I was in my mind, and the moment we looked at the rights, we heard about the death of Athol.” “It was a sign that we must do this very important play, the moment of the play is something we need to remember, and it will allow us to hold deep conversations about the most difficult questions in our society – who we are in relation to each other, and how this persecution system made it impossible for people to be loved by each other, because you need freedom in love.”

This season is concluded with the premiere of the West Coast movie for “Angry, Taugous, and Wickssly” (from June 10 to July 12, 2026), which is a sharp and vital comedy for a mummified actress, during her launch, she finds herself clashing with a new generation of artists and activists. Latanya Richardson Jackson is the graduation of the Gil Cates Theater, which was produced in partnership with Black Rebirth Collective and it is partly possible support from Cast Irent Entertainment.

Makrani said: “The first five to 10 minutes of the play angered me, telling me about myself and making me see through another perspective in a way that I feel very nutritious,” Makrani said. “I have written a play that speaks to us, artists who have jobs, and how we need to make way for people who are on the Internet, who look at the world at all, but they have many creative instincts that can only help us. We are a city full of artists and full of generations, and because it is very fun and focuses on performance, we believe that it will get a delicious way to the end of our season.”

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