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'Fat Ham' (Black Partners Appreciation Night)

Tuesday, April 2, 2024 8:00 PM
  • Geffen Playhouse, 10886 Le Conte Ave., Westwood
$36 and up
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Two black men, actors Marcel Spears and Matthew Elijah Webb, embrace during rehearsals for the stage show 'Fat Ham.' The photo is in black and white.
Marcel Spears as "Juicy" and Matthew Elijah Webb as "Larry" during rehearsals for the show 'Fat Ham.'
(Courtesy of Geffen Playhouse)

Inspired by the success of Broadway’s Black Out Nights, which is dedicated to bringing Black-identifying audiences to the theater, the Geffen is hosting a Black Partners Appreciation Night preview performance of Fat Ham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning riff on Hamlet. The show, about a queer Black man visited by his father’s ghost at a family barbeque, is followed by an afterparty in the courtyard. All proceeds benefit the theater’s community partners.

If you can’t make it on Tuesday, the show opens officially on April 4 and runs through April 28.

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