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The First Deep Breath by Lee Edward Colston II

Geffen Playhouse 10886 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles

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
Ongoing

All the Way West Productions presents Southern Girls

Hudson Backstage Theatre 6539 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles

All the Way West Productions presents Southern Girls by Sheri Bailey and Dura Temple, directed by Zadia Ife, at the Hudson Backstage Theatre. Featuring: Jessica Sade Ward, Arianna Evangelia, Ash Saunders, Maria Jimena Gastelum, Katie Spokely and Swisyzinna. Set in a small town in Alabama, Southern ...

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$25 – $35

DADA Summer Intensive Auditions: LA 2023

LOS ANGELES AUDITION DATES (IN-PERSON) January 21st February 4th | February 18th March 4th | March 18th April 1st | April 15th | April 29th May 6th AUDITION TIME: 4:00PM Check-In 4:30-5:30PM Auditions AGE GROUPS: 8yr - 11yr | 12yr - 15yr ...

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Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Segerstrom Stage 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa

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 Robey Theatre Company’s Advanced Scene Study Workshop

Victory Theatre Center 3326 W Victory Blvd., Burbank

Guided by The Robey’s award-winning Producing Artistic Director, Ben Guillory, the Advanced Scene Study Workshop provides an intense, ten-week scene study for actors who wish to bring their work to the next level.  Actors are encouraged to develop their craft through the ...

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$500

The Robey Theatre Company’s Playwrights Lab

Virtual

2023 SPRING SESSION is OPEN The Robey Theatre Company’s Playwrights Lab provides weekly sessions and one-on-one meetings to foster a space tailored to each writer’s needs plus curate a timeline for the author’s writing goals and needs. With an emphasis on prompts, ...

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Towne Street Theatre’s IMPROV with Twon Pope

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

Announcing Towne Street Workshops! IMPROV with Twon Pope The first 4 weeks will be dedicated to the players studying the elements of short-form improvisation. Players will learn technique, character development and how improv shows up in auditions. The final two weeks will ...

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$150

Flow State: An Hour of Exploration

Barnsdall Gallery Theatre 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles

Four LA based artists collaborate to synthesize an offering of their most recent explorations. Music, Dance, and Film. Celebrating Black Art.

$10

The Robey Theatre Company presents a reading of Last Night At Mikell’s

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

The Robey Theatre Company presents a reading of Last Night at Mikell’s by Larry Muhammad, directed by Ben Guillory. Featuring: Julio Hanson, Toyin Moses, Dmetrius Williams Conley, and Nick Gillie. James Baldwin is writing himself into bad health. After two heart attacks, ...

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Free

Towne Street Theatre presents Black Annie & the Pastor

Virtual

Towne Street Theatre's Reading Series presents Black Annie and The Pastor, written & directed by Tony Robinson. This new drama takes us behind the photograph and exposes the true story of that fateful day in August 1930. It, too, is a day that lives in ...

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