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The Robey Theatre Company presents A Heated Discussion Revisted

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

The 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 ...

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3 Black Girl Blues by Anthony D’Juan and Danielle Moné Truitt

Hudson Backstage Theatre 6539 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, United States

Truitt Love Productions and CMA Entertainment present 3 Black Girl Blues, created and performed by Danielle Moné Truitt, written by Anthony D'Juan. 3: BLACK GIRL BLUES is a tale of three close friends - Keisha, Jill and Stephanie - who grew up ...

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$42.50

Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage

Long Beach Playhouse 5021 E. Anaheim Street, Long Beach, CA

Pearl 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 ...

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$20 – $35

A Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller

Ahmanson Theatre 135 N Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA

Center 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 ...

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adaku, part 1: the road opens by Okwui Okpokwasili

REDCAT 631 W 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA

REDCAT presents Okwui Okpokwasili’s new theater piece, which centers around a young African American girl who loses all of her hair after using a chemical straightener, only to have it restored by the power of a mysterious, unhoused woman. The young girl’s ...

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$25

The Darkness: Goddess Revealed by Nick Gillie

The Actors' Gang Theater 9070 Venice Blvd., Culver City, CA

The 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 ...

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$25 – $35