top of page

Anthony Gutierrez
Feb 123 min read
Review: ‘Noises Off’ at Geffen Playhouse
Ora Jones, Audrey Francis and James Vincent Meredith in "Noises Off" at Geffen Playhouse (Photo by Jeff Lorch) While theatergoers enjoyed...
144 views0 comments

Anita W. Harris
Nov 16, 20243 min read
Review: Aesthetically charming ‘Waiting for Godot’ at Geffen Playhouse
Irish playwright Samuel Beckett wrote “Waiting for Godot” in the winter of 1948, in French, having lived in Paris for 20 years and...
239 views0 comments

Anita W. Harris
Sep 2, 20243 min read
‘The Brothers Size’ at Geffen Playhouse blends myth with gritty reality
Though Geffen Playhouse’s new artistic director Tarell Alvin McCraney wrote “The Brothers Size” 20 years ago, the play resonates just as...
49 views0 comments

Anita W. Harris
May 7, 20243 min read
Charmed magic of an American dream in ‘The Hope Theory’ at Geffen Playhouse
The world premiere of “The Hope Theory” – extended at Geffen Playhouse through July 14 – makes an American immigrant tale magical....
113 views0 comments

Anita W. Harris
Apr 10, 20243 min read
‘Fat Ham’ at Geffen Playhouse flips Shakespeare’s script
If you Vitamixed the existential pages of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” with a crockpot of Southern barbecue sauce, you might end up...
54 views0 comments

Anita W. Harris
Jan 29, 20243 min read
Women run wild in Geffen Playhouse’s ‘POTUS’
About an hour before curtain at the Geffen Playhouse last Friday night, Vice President Kamala Harris was purported to be dining around...
89 views0 comments

Anita W. Harris
Oct 22, 20233 min read
‘The Engagement Party’ sparkles at Geffen Playhouse
In Samuel Baum’s “The Engagement Party,” a festive occasion morphs into an obsessive mystery when the bride-to-be’s expensive engagement...
81 views0 comments

Anita W. Harris
Sep 18, 20234 min read
The Geffen's ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ grapples with suicide, but emotion is lost in translation
“Every Brilliant Thing,” continuing at the Geffen Playhouse’s Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater through Oct. 15, explores the effects of a...
90 views0 comments

Anita W. Harris
Jun 22, 20233 min read
MLK-inspired ‘The Mountaintop’ soars at Geffen Playhouse
Amanda Warren gives a tour-de-force performance as Camae, a hotel maid who brings coffee to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on his final...
81 views0 comments

Anita W. Harris
Nov 21, 20223 min read
‘Mindplay’ at the Geffen messes with minds
Review of Mindplay at Geffen Playhouse by Anita W. Harris for LA Theatrix
405 views0 comments

Anita W. Harris
Oct 21, 20224 min read
Masterful, literary 'The Inheritance' graces the Geffen
Review of The Inheritance Parts 1 and 2 at the Geffen Playhouse by Anita W. Harris for LA Theatrix
290 views0 comments

Anita W. Harris
May 3, 20223 min read
Soul-stirring ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ at the Geffen bites where it hurts
Review of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" at Geffen Playhouse by Anita W. Harris for LA Theatrix.
79 views0 comments

Anita W. Harris
Mar 15, 20223 min read
Acting takes center stage in Geffen Playhouse’s cathartic ‘TRAYF’
Review of TRAYF at Geffen Playhouse by Anita W. Harris for LA Theatrix
59 views0 comments

Anita W. Harris
Feb 21, 20223 min read
Geffen Playhouse’s ‘Power of Sail’ deftly navigates turbulent racial waters
Review of "Power of Sail" at the Geffen Playhouse by Anita W. Harris for LA Theatrix.
122 views0 comments
LA Theatrix Theatre Reviews
bottom of page