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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

The First Deep Breath by Lee Edward Colston II

Geffen Playhouse 10886 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

The Geffen Playhouse presents The First Deep Breath by Lee Edward Colston II, directed by Steve H. Broadnax III. You think your family has drama? Meet the Joneses. Pastor Albert Jones and his family are proud leaders of the Mother Bethel Baptist ...

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$30 – $129

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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