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Culture Clash portrait | Oscar Castillo, courtesy of Culture Clash
“Totally Fake Latino News!,” a satirical show by Latinx performance trio Culture Clash is tailor-made for the unprecedented times we’re living in today.
Broadside for Teatro Principal, Los Angeles, printed by Imprenta Jalisco, Boyle Heights, 1929 January 10. | University of Southern California Libraries, Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum Collection, 1830-1930
There was a time that Los Angeles powered a lively Hispanic vaudeville scene, and its legacy still lives on in many performers today.
A woman in a black and white dress speaks into a microphone at CAP UCLA's “The People Speak” event. | Courtesy of CAP UCLA
Faced with unprecedented difficulties, Center for the Art of Performance UCLA announces an inspiring season of boundary-pushing performances
Acid Betty | Courtesy of Voss Events
This July 31, stars from “RuPaul’s Drag Race” arrive on socially distant drive-in stages in downtown Los Angeles. Learn how this avant-garde art form blossomed over the years.
A performer for "Sweet Land" | Casey Kringlen for The Industry
Five months after the innovative opera closed due to the pandemic, its themes resonate louder than ever.
Helder Guimarães in the Geffen Stayhouse production of The Present, directed by Frank Marshall. | Geffen Playhouse
Extended thrice, “The Present” at the Geffen Playhouse could be described as live theater that comes to you, but some might call it enhanced television. 
Still from Kenneth Tam's "Griffith Park Boys Camp" | Courtesy of the artist
One summer day in Griffith Park, a small line of grown men dressed in newspaper costumes clambered up a hiking trail. They were participants in artist Kenneth Tam’s social experiment, “Griffith Park Boys Camp," which re-imagines masculinity today.
Dancers at the Lula Washington Dance Theatre
The Lula Washington Dance Theatre offer dance classes and structure for local young people while also educating them about black history and current events through dance.
African-American women in dance
From ballet and modern dance to Lindy hop and hip-hop, African-American women have left indelible marks on the dance community. 
Dancing on the Steps
Bringing dance to South Los Angeles was a task that Lula and Erwin Washington felt was worth fighting for, but they learned the hard way that it wasn't going to be easy.
 "The Formaldehyde Trip," 2017 by Naomi Rincón Gallardo. | Fabiola Torres-Alzaga
“En Cuatro Patas (On All Fours),” the Broad’s new Latinx feminist performance series, which will run from January through November of this year, promises to replace our everyday animal reality with something weirder.
Aliens made by Calder Greenwood for "War of the Worlds" performance | Greg Grudt of Mathew Imaging
Now, nearly 80 years after that first iconic broadcast, "War of the Worlds" is brought to life at Walt Disney Concert Hall and the streets of downtown Los Angeles. 
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