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    Review: Tony-winning ‘The Inheritance’ is better in Los Angeles than on Broadway

    LOS ANGELES — Hats off to the Geffen Playhouse for pulling off with exquisite panache a most difficult double-header in “The Inheritance,” Matthew López’s two-part, Tony-winning gay drama. This marathon undertaking, roughly 6½ hours long, is broken up into two plays. Forget about fast-food theater: This is a full-course dramatic meal. An epic that had its world premiere in London in 2018, “The ...
    by Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times Oct 19, 2022 6 minutes
    Bradley James Tejeda in "The Inheritance Part 2," at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.

    LOS ANGELES — Hats off to the Geffen Playhouse for pulling off with exquisite panache a most difficult double-header in “The Inheritance,” Matthew López’s two-part, Tony-winning gay drama.

    This marathon undertaking, roughly 6½ hours long, is broken up into two plays. Forget about fast-food theater: This is a full-course dramatic meal.

    An epic that had its world premiere in London in 2018, “The Inheritance” follows a group of gay men — friends, lovers and exes — as they piece together their intergenerational story. While grappling with the private and public upheaval of their lives — the election of Donald Trump may be the most terrifying moment in the play — the characters connect the dots between the gay past and the gay present.

    Having experienced the work on Broadway in 2019, I was worried that the Geffen Playhouse had bitten off more than it could handle. But this top-notch production, directed by Mike Donahue (who knows his

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