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Senior Stories: A Jubilee Celebration by The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival

Culver City Senior Center 4095 Overland Ave., Culver City, CA

Celebrate 50 Years of the Culver City Senior Center with Stories told by Senior Residents Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival's "SENIOR STORIES: A Jubilee Celebration" honors the 50th Anniversary of the Culver City Senior Center through storytelling presentations by senior residents. Directed ...

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$5 – $10

White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour by Carene Mekertichyan

The ISC Studio at Atwater Crossing 3191 Casitas Ave. #130, Los Angeles, CA, United States

You are invited to a workshop performance of this new work in development! Independent Shakespeare Company presents White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour by Carene Mekertichyan, directed by Bruce A. Lemon, Jr. ...

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$25 – $35

Omar composed by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Los Angeles Music Center 135 N Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA

LA Opera presents Omar, composed by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, and conducted by Kazem Abdullah. In 1807, a 37-year-old scholar living in West Africa was captured and forced aboard a ship bound for Charleston, South Carolina. Omar Ibn Said's life and ...

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$15 – $199

Listen, A Black Woman Is Speaking by Marlow Wyatt

Moving Arts Theatre 3191 Casitas Ave., Los Angeles, CA

Moving Arts’ Plays in Motion presents Listen, A Black Woman Is Speaking by Marlow Wyatt, directed by Bernadette Speakes. Featuring Juanita Jennings, Tamika Katon-Donegal, Geri-Nikole Love, Camille Ariana Spirlin, with dramaturgy by Dana Schwartz. Just two days before she is to speak at ...

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The Robey Theatre Company presents Man’s Favor Devil’s Plan

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

The Robey Theatre Company, in association with The Los Angeles Theatre Center, presents the world-premiere of Man’s Favor Devil’s Plan by Kwik Jones, directed by Julian White. Los Angeles, California, 1938, Mr. Avery's Hotel. A microcosm of a nation that has been steep in a vicious ...

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$25 – $40

SBT Night at ISC’s White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour by Carene Mekertichyan

The ISC Studio at Atwater Crossing 3191 Casitas Ave. #130, Los Angeles, CA, United States

You are invited to a workshop performance of this new work in development! Independent Shakespeare Company presents White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour by Carene Mekertichyan, directed by Bruce A. Lemon, Jr. ...

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$10