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May 2, 2025 @ 8PM
In the spirit of Broadway's Black Out Nights, we welcome Black-identifying audiences to experience this powerful Black family drama alongside passionate community partners in a celebratory environment. 100% of single ticket proceeds will benefit our partner organizations. And we're having a party!
Performance of Furlough's Paradise
After Party with DJ, Desserts & Drinks
100% of single ticket proceeds from Black Partners Appreciation Night on May 2, 2025 will benefit our community partners: Black Rebirth Collective, California Black Women's Health Project, Coco Coalition, and Moon Child Collaborative. When selecting your seats, you may choose to benefit a single organization, or select "Share With All" to have ticket proceeds shared equally among all organizations.
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WORLD PREMIEREGIL CATES THEATER
Written by a.k. payneDirected by Tinashe Kajese-BoldenCousins Sade and Mina used to be inseparable. Now leading very different lives, they return to their childhood town for the funeral of their mother and aunt. While Sade is on a three-day furlough from prison and Mina experiences a brief reprieve from her career and life on the West Coast, the two try to make sense of grief, home, love, and kinship. As the clock ticks down, the cousins grapple with their conflicting memories of the past and their shared hopes for the future. Poetic and theatrical, Furlough’s Paradise explores family dreams of a utopia yet to be realized.
This production is made possible, in part, by support from Cast Iron Entertainment. Geffen Playhouse’s Theater as a Lens for Justice initiative provides access to this production and supplementary programs for populations impacted by incarceration and is supported, in part, by Jayne Baron Sherman. Audience Engagement initiatives for Furlough's Paradise are supported by The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation.
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