The Times' theater critic selects his top SoCal stage productions for 2024, including 'Funny Girl,' 'Fat Ham,' 'Primary Trust,' 'Pacific Overtures,' 'The Brothers Size' and 'Company.'
In Southern California, the post-pandemic malaise finally started to lift. And the theater, quite unexpectedly, turned out to be 2024's silver lining. The Mark Taper Forum reopened for business in the fall with a pedal-to-the-metal revival of 'American Idiot,' a collaboration with Deaf West Theatre that marked Center Theatre Group artistic director Snehal Desai's directing debut at his new home.
The intimacy of the Geffen Playhouse's second stage helped crystallize Tarell Alvin McCraney's “The Brothers Size,” part of the playwright's acclaimed “Brother/Sister' trilogy set in the Louisiana bayou and incorporating West African mythology. Directed by Bijan Sheibani, the production was set ablaze by the percussive accompaniment of musician Stan Mathabane and the in-sync rhythms of the three-person cast: Sheaun McKinney, Alani iLongwe and Malcolm Mays.
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