A Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller
Ahmanson Theatre 135 N Grand Ave., Los AngelesCenter Theatre Group presents A Soldier’s Play, the 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning thriller by Charles Fuller. Originally staged Off-Broadway by the Negro Ensemble Company in 1981, this iconic play has rocketed back into the spotlight, thanks to this 2020 Tony Award®-winning Best Revival from Roundabout ...
The Mountaintop by Katori Hall
Geffen Playhouse 10886 Le Conte Avenue, Los AngelesThe Geffen Playhouse presents The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, directed by Patricia McGregor and featuring Jon Michael Hill and Amanda Warren. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Tony nominee Jon Michael Hill, Elementary, Superior Donuts) retires to the Lorraine Motel after delivering his history-altering “I’ve ...
BLUE by June Carryl
The Matrix Theatre 7657 Melrose Avenue, Los AngelesRogue Machine Theatre presents BLUE by June Carryl, directed by Michael Matthews. Featuring Julanne Chidi-Hill and John Colella. LAPD Detective LaRhonda Parker investigates the shooting of a Black motorist during a traffic stop. The officer in question is Boyd Sully, a family ...
can i touch it? by Francisca Da Silveira
The Matrix Theatre 7657 Melrose Avenue, Los AngelesRogue Machine Theatre presents can i touch it? by Francisca Da Silveira, directed by Gregg T. Daniel. Shay Solomon is many things - but there’s one thing she’s definitely not: a pawn in the bank’s efforts to buy up foreclosed real estate. ...
The Robey Theatre Company presents A Heated Discussion Revisted
Los Angeles Theatre Center 514 S. Spring St., Los AngelesThe Robey Theatre Company presents A HEATED DISCUSSION REVISITED by Levy Lee Simon, directed by Ben Guillory. A trio of Orishas (entities of the spirit world), dismayed and enraged at the state of the world today and the fates of African Americans ...
Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage
Long Beach Playhouse 5021 E. Anaheim Street, Long BeachPearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky, directed by Sonya Randall, is playing in the Long Beach Playhouse’s Mainstage Theater! Featuring: Alisha Anderson, De’Sean Moore, Danielle Davis, Leopold, and Logan Battle. May 19– June 17, 2023 In the summer of 1930 in ...
The Darkness: Goddess Revealed by Nick Gillie
The Actors' Gang Theater 9070 Venice Blvd., Culver CityThe Actors’ Gang, Black University and Okan Entertainment present Nick Gillie’s The Darkness: Goddess Revealed, directed by Dwain Perry. The Darkness: Goddess Revealed is told through the perspective of three vastly different characters, all played by writer Nick Gillie: Glory Banks was ...
ARIA ~ I AM THE DAUGHTER OF O$UN by Aria Gillespie at the Hollywood Fringe Festival
Studio/Stage: A Stage Crafts Venue 520 N. Western Ave., Los AngelesAria’s Joy Vibe Productions presents ARIA ~ I AM THE DAUGHTER OF O$UN, a Hollywood Fringe Festival selection. ARIA ~ I AM THE DAUGHTER OF O$UN is a full disclosure of Aria Gillespie’s life as a psychic, Black British immigrant, who had ...
FUCKIN LOUD by M. Imani West at the Hollywood Fringe Festival
905 Cole Theatre at Anthony Meindl’s Actor Workshop 905 Cole Ave., Los AngelesThe Malodrama Productions presents the West Coast premiere of FUCKIN LOUD by M. Imani West, a Hollywood Fringe Festival selection, directed by Jackeline Torres Cortès. FUCKIN LOUD is a solo choreopoem—a blend of poetry, storytelling, music, and dance, as defined by Ntozake ...
SMOTE THIS, A COMEDY ABOUT GOD…AND OTHER SERIOUS $H*T by Rodney Gardiner at the Hollywood Fringe Festival
The Broadwater Second Stage 6320 Santa Monica Blvd., Los AngelesRodney Gardiner presents SMOTE THIS, A COMEDY ABOUT GOD...AND OTHER SERIOUS $H*T, a Hollywood Fringe Festival selection. Comedian and recovering Shakespearean actor, Rodney Gardiner, strives to make sense of his feelings about God. In this one man comedy, Rodney tries to abandon ...
THE ALLURE OF THUG LIFE by Mélia Mills at the Hollywood Fringe Festival
905 Cole Theatre at Anthony Meindl’s Actor Workshop 905 Cole Ave., Los AngelesMélia Mills presents THE ALLURE OF THUG LIFE, a Hollywood Fringe Festival selection. THE ALLURE OF THUG LIFE is a Hip Hopsical comedy about Mélia, an upper middle-class teen from Oakland who wants to be a gangster rapper. Picture a 15 year ...
EVERY DAY SHE ROSE by Andrea Scott and Nick Green at the Hollywood Fringe Festival
The Broadwater Second Stage 6320 Santa Monica Blvd., Los AngelesPasha McKenley Productions presents EVERY DAY SHE ROSE by Andrea Scott and Nick Green, a Hollywood Fringe Festival selection, directed by Aminata Diop. “The personal becomes political in this collaboratively created new work from playwrights Andrea Scott and Nick Green. When racial ...
I’M JUST NOT THAT GIRL by Jessica Berry at the Hollywood Fringe Festival
The Madnani Theater 6760 Lexington Ave., Los AngelesCuriosity Killed the Cat presents I'M JUST NOT THAT GIRL by Jessica Berry, a Hollywood Fringe Festival selection, directed by Lauren Downey. Experience the hilariously chaotic journey of Jessica Berry in I’m Just Not That Girl. This one-woman show hurtles you through ...