Los Angeles' Geffen Playhouse has unveiled its upcoming 2025-2026 season, which includes a number of premieres.
The season will open with a world premiere for Roxana Ortega's Am I Roxie?, playing the company's Gil Cates Theater September 3-October 5. Written and performed by Ortega, the solo show sees the comedian navigating her mother's mental decline in a wild story that takes audiences to the opera house, a treacherous mountain, and the scariest place of all: Ortega's mind. Bernardo Cubria will direct.
Following that will be a world premiere for Rudi Goblen's littleboy/littleman in Geffen's Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater, performing October 1-November 2 and directed by Nancy Medina. The work follows Nicaraguan brothers whose differing takes on the American Dream sets them on a path that risks their futures and their sibling relationship. Goblen's work incorporates poetry and live music.
The final world premiere will be Beth Hyland's Sylvia Sylvia Sylvia, playing the Gil Cates Theater February 4-March 8, 2026. Jo Bonney will direct the new work, about a noted female novelist鈥攆ighting through writer's block in the shadow of a husband whose own star as a writer is on the rise鈥攚ho holes up in an apartment that was once home to Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.
Making its West Coast premiere in the season will be Douglas Lyons' Table 17, coming to the Geffen's Gil Cates Theater November 5-December 7 after making its premiere Off-Broadway at MCC Theater last year. The new run is a transfer from MCC, with Zhailon Levingston (Cats: "The Jellicle Ball") returning to direct and Biko Eisen-Martin and Michael Rishawn reprising their performances, to be newly joined by Gail Bean. The work follows a once-engaged couple who meet for dinner and revisit old wounds. Geffen's run is being produced in association with Jeffrey Richards and Mark Cortale.
Also making its West Coast premiere will be Pearl Cleage's Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous, playing the Cates Theater June 10-July 12, 2026, produced in association with Black Rebirth Collective. LaTanya Richardson Jackson is directing the comedy, about an award-winning actress who has fallen on hard times and is trying to make a comeback amidst a new generation with thoughts on her past and politics.
The theatre will also give a Los Angeles premiere to Sara Porkalob's Dragon Mama in the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater March 4-April 12, 2026, with Andrew Russell again directing the solo show, the second in Porkalob's "Dragon Cycle." Additionally, the company will stage a revival of Athol Fugard's "Master Harold" ...and the Boys in the Cates Theater April 8-May 10, 2026.
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See photos from the 2024 Off-Broadway world premiere of Table 17 below:
Biko Eisen-Martin and Kara Young in Table 17
Biko Eisen-Martin in Table 17
Michael Rishawn and Kara Young in Table 17
Kara Young in Table 17
Biko Eisen-Martin, Michael Rishawn, and Kara Young in Table 17
Michael Rishawn in Table 17
Biko Eisen-Martin and Kara Young in Table 17
Michael Rishawn in Table 17
