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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

Amazing Grace Conservatory presents The Wiz 2023!

Crenshaw Performing Arts Center on the Campus of Crenshaw High School 5010 11th Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

Amazing Grace Conservatory and Wendy Raquel Robinson with TLC present The Wiz 2023, directed by Alfred Jackson, an AGC alum! Featuring a cast of more than 60 youth performers! “Ease on down the road” to the beautiful Performing Arts Center on the ...

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$25 – $45