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Towne Street Theatre presents the 6th Annual Sum Poetry Event

Stella Adler Theatre at Stella Adler Academy of Acting & Theatre 6773 Hollywood Blvd., 2nd Fl., Hollywood, CA

Towne Street Theatre's Spoken Word night SUM Poetry is back LIVE and will be followed by our first LIVE open mic in 4 years! Theme of the night: “Keys to the past, Doors to the Future." Robert LaMarr Randle, our incredible headliner, ...

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The Robey Theatre Company presents A Masterclass with Playwright Levy Lee Simon

Los Angeles Theatre Center 514 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA

The multiple award-winning playwright, Levy Lee Simon, will present three master classes in playwriting. He is recognized as one of the most prolific playwrights of our generation, having written over twenty plays with 45 productions produced in New York, Los Angeles, across ...

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$150

Stew by Zora Howard

Pasadena Playhouse Theater 39 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA

Pasadena Playhouse presents Stew by Zora Howard, directed by Tyler Thomas. Mama and the girls are in the kitchen early preparing her famous stew for a big event in Zora Howard’s humorous, haunting, and sharp 90-minute drama. As these three generations of ...

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$35 – $117

Nothing, Nothing by Amina Henry

Hero Theatre presents Nothing, Nothing by Amina Henry, directed by Elisa Bocanegra. A celebration of joy, romance, and community, NOTHING, NOTHING is a site-specific adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing set and performed entirely in a Baptist church! This adaptation puts ...

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Wild Hand by Danielle McPhaul

Asylum at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre 5636 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA

Le Vide M'appelle presents this spectacular solo performance, WILD HAND written and performed by Danielle McPhaul. On the old Frontier, it’s said there’s, “no Sunday west of St. Louis, and no God west of Fort Smith.” It’s because of this that Indian ...

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$20

Sister, Braid My Hair By Sarahjeen François

The Zephyr Theater 7456 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

The SheLA Summer Theater Festival presents Sister, Braid My Hair by Sarahjeen François! A peek into the life behind a quintessentially Black work of art: Oak and her three sisters, Olei, Yeva, and Soraya– live out their days as figures in a ...

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$30