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Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Segerstrom Stage 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, United States

South Coast Repertory presents Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg. Arkansas, present day. The estranged members of the Lafayette family gather at their late father’s crumbling plantation to prepare for the estate sale. But decades of resentment have a way of ...

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$27 – $98

Try/Step/Trip by Dahlak Brathwaite

Lovelace Studio Theater 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA

The Wallis presents Try/Step/Trip by Dahlak Brathwaite, a spoken-word, multi-character musical performed through the language of step dance. Directed by Roberta Uno, the story follows the journey of an anonymous narrator as he reimagines his experience in a court-ordered drug rehabilitation program. Inspired ...

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Lower Depth Theatre’s Cycle of Poverty Reading Festival

A Noise Within Theatre 3352 E Foothill Blvd., Pasadena, CA

Lower Depth Theatre and A Noise Within’s Noise Now series present the Cycle of Poverty Reading Festival. Presented over two days, this festival is the culmination of Lower Depth Theatre’s new Commission Fellowship Program and gives their 2022 cohort the opportunity to showcase the ...

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$10 – $50

A CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY: Part I – Role of Black theatre in America

Nate Holden Performing Arts Center 4718 W Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, United States

A CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY: Part I - Role of Black theatre in America Ebony Repertory Theatre presents an intimate conversation about the role of Black theatre in America with William Allen Young and Wren T. Brown, Part 1.

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Ebony Repertory Theatre’s A CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY: Part II – A night of love songs…Terry Steele’s Here & Now, The Legacy of Luther Vandross

Nate Holden Performing Arts Center 4718 W Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, United States

Ebony Repertory Theatre’s A CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY: Part II - A night of love songs…Terry Steele’s Here & Now, The Legacy of Luther Vandross Ebony Repertory Theatre returns Grammy nominated singer/songwriter, Terry Steele (Here & Now), to the Nate Holden Performing ...

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