{"id":204952,"date":"2026-03-05T03:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204952\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T03:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:33:07","slug":"sylvia-sylvia-sylvia-geffen-playhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204952\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvia Sylvia Sylvia | Geffen Playhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The English major in me adored this play about the life and work of Sylvia Plath at the Geffen Playhouse, running through March 8.\u00a0It functions as a ghost story of sorts, toggling between Sylvia\u2019s life in the 1950s with her husband, fellow writer Ted Hughes, and the present-day couple\u2014also writers\u2014who are living in the same apartment. The play\u2014a new work by rising playwright Beth Hyland\u2014has interesting things to say about feminism, creativity, relationships, mental health and therapy speak, and it\u2019s anchored by strong performances\u00a0across the board from\u00a0the four-person cast, particularly\u00a0Marianna Gailus, who plays the titular character, and\u00a0Midori Francis, who provides both pathos and humor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The English major in me adored this play about the life and work of Sylvia Plath at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[75624,83392,48,52,51,47,50,49,25546,1929,1058,94835],"class_list":["post-204952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-event-type-performances","tag-good-for-culture-vultures","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-more-recommended","tag-price","tag-theater","tag-theater-drama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}