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A Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller

Ahmanson Theatre 135 N Grand Ave., Los Angeles

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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BLUE by June Carryl

The Matrix Theatre 7657 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles

Rogue Machine Theatre presents BLUE by June Carryl, directed by Michael Matthews​. Featuring Julanne Chidi-Hill and John Colella. LAPD Detective LaRhonda Parker investigates the shooting of a Black motorist during a traffic stop. The officer in question is Boyd Sully, a family ...

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$10 – $30

can i touch it? by Francisca Da Silveira

The Matrix Theatre 7657 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles

Rogue Machine Theatre presents can i touch it? by Francisca Da Silveira, directed by Gregg T. Daniel. Shay Solomon is many things - but there’s one thing she’s definitely not: a pawn in the bank’s efforts to buy up foreclosed real estate. ...

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$10 – $45

The Robey Theatre Company presents A Heated Discussion Revisted

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

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

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

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

The Darkness: Goddess Revealed by Nick Gillie

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

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

FUCKIN LOUD by M. Imani West at the Hollywood Fringe Festival

905 Cole Theatre at Anthony Meindl’s Actor Workshop 905 Cole Ave., Los Angeles

The Malodrama Productions presents the West Coast premiere of FUCKIN LOUD by M. Imani West, a Hollywood Fringe Festival selection, directed by Jackeline Torres Cortès. FUCKIN LOUD is a solo choreopoem—a blend of poetry, storytelling, music, and dance, as defined by Ntozake ...

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$16.16

SMOTE THIS, A COMEDY ABOUT GOD…AND OTHER SERIOUS $H*T by Rodney Gardiner at the Hollywood Fringe Festival

The Broadwater Second Stage 6320 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles

Rodney Gardiner presents SMOTE THIS, A COMEDY ABOUT GOD...AND OTHER SERIOUS $H*T, a Hollywood Fringe Festival selection. Comedian and recovering Shakespearean actor, Rodney Gardiner, strives to make sense of his feelings about God. In this one man comedy, Rodney tries to abandon ...

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$15

THE ALLURE OF THUG LIFE by Mélia Mills at the Hollywood Fringe Festival

905 Cole Theatre at Anthony Meindl’s Actor Workshop 905 Cole Ave., Los Angeles

Mélia Mills presents THE ALLURE OF THUG LIFE, a Hollywood Fringe Festival selection. THE ALLURE OF THUG LIFE is a Hip Hopsical comedy about Mélia, an upper middle-class teen from Oakland who wants to be a gangster rapper. Picture a 15 year ...

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$10

Lula Washington Dance Theatre’s Annual Youth Recital

Lula Washington Dance Theatre – Indoor Theater 3773 Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles

Lula Washington Dance Theatre - Youth Recital The Lula Washington Dance Theatre is proud to present its 2022-2023 Students in our Annual Youth Recital. Each year they pride themselves in presenting the next generation of young dancers, choreographers and creative thinkers. All ...

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EVERY DAY SHE ROSE by Andrea Scott and Nick Green at the Hollywood Fringe Festival

The Broadwater Second Stage 6320 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles

Pasha McKenley Productions presents EVERY DAY SHE ROSE by Andrea Scott and Nick Green, a Hollywood Fringe Festival selection, directed by Aminata Diop. “The personal becomes political in this collaboratively created new work from playwrights Andrea Scott and Nick Green. When racial ...

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$15