Geffen Playhouse

Tony nominee LaTanya Richardson Jackson directs this sharp-witted new comedy about a celebrated, broke actress who stages a career comeback and immediately clashes with the new generation.

Direct from Broadway with its original cast, this 2025 Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner introduces the Jaspers, a dynasty of Black political royalty whose carefully guarded public image cracks the night their youngest son comes home. Directed by Phylicia Rashad, it peels back decades of buried grievances and betrayals to ask what this family is really for.

Winner of the 2026 Tony Award for Best Play and fresh off its Broadway run, this West Coast debut drops you into 1970 small-town Ohio, where six women claim a basement gym for a weekly consciousness-raising group. Directed by Tony nominee Whitney White, it follows with sharp wit and real feeling what happens once friendships, alliances, and the meaning of freedom itself all land on the table.

Big is an MMA fighter at the end of his run who reluctantly agrees to train his younger sister Lil, a hungry newcomer with everything to prove. Every sparring session doubles as a reckoning, dragging up years of distance and unresolved pain between them.

LA housing prices are already a horror story, but in this badly flipped "luxury" listing they might be lethal. A scrappy real estate agent and her Uber-driving boyfriend are secretly squatting in the very home she is desperate to sell, where every cut corner threatens to bring the whole thing down.

During the 1964 Harlem riots, painter Bill Jameson holes up in his apartment chasing "the essence" of Black womanhood for his latest triptych. When a young woman takes shelter there, his fixed ideas about who she should be collide with who she actually is.