Paradise Blue

Geffen Playhouse
10886 Le Conte Avenue Los Angeles

Welcome to the sultry, jazz-filled Paradise Club. It’s 1949 in Detroit, and trumpet-playing club owner Blue has a tough decision to make. Should he sell his jazz joint as gentrification is banging on the door? The house band is desperate to stay, Blue’s demons are tempting him to leave, and the arrival of a seductive stranger turns everything upside down. In Tony Award-nominated playwright Dominique Morisseau’s (Ain’t Too Proud, Skeleton Crew) powerful noir-inspired drama, a makeshift family and their troubled bandleader find themselves fighting for the future of Paradise.

Thru - Nov 21, 2021

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Los Angeles Times - Recommended

"...Under the direction of Stori Ayers, an actor with a long collaborative history with the playwright, this production of “Paradise Blue” (at the Geffen Playhouse through Dec. 12) makes a compelling case for a play that proudly parades in vintage genre clothing. Reviews were mixed for the New York premiere in 2018, but this ensemble cast drama is well served by the character-centered nature of Ayers’ staging."

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- Charles McNulty

Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended

"...A nightclub owner haunted by a lifetime of demons meets a woman who spells "trouble" with a capital T in Dominique Morisseau's Paradise Blue, the kind of noir Hollywood could have made back in the late 1940s but didn't, an explosive West Coast Premiere at the Geffen."

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- Steven Stanley

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