Songs! Stories! Foul language! All inspired by late great jazz icon Sophie Tucker! Combining the pizzazz of Tucker’s risqué song catalog with raucous audience interaction, this cabaret-inspired show serves up the extraordinary life of one of the first adults-only female performers. Come enjoy the rollicking energy that made Tucker the most sought-after nightclub entertainer of […]
Joshua is fresh out of pastor’s college and delivering his first sermon to a conservative church in Southwest Virginia. This trial-run sermon will determine if he will join the church staff as an Associate Pastor, something he’s longed for his whole life. However, Joshua is queer, deeply closeted, and on the precipice of a mental […]
For ten years, poet Brian Sonia-Wallace has been interviewing strangers to write them poems on a typewriter about their lives. In this one-hour, one-man show, he asks, “when did you start to live authentically?” and combines clowning with sacred reading practices to find out. It’s a dialogue with the audience through poetry about dreams and desires: the […]
Give yourself the gift of laughter this season with an evening of pre-Christmas yuk yuks, pop culture pop-offs and R-rated game show insanity. Don your gay apparel and join host Dennis Hensley and a panel of L.A.’s most twisted comic minds as they fill the Renberg with mirth and merriment…and maybe a musical number.
What’s this? WHAT’S THIS? There’s magic in the air!What’s this? There’s drag queens everywhere! On this very special holiday-season-Friday the 13th, we are going to MOUSE THE HOUSE DOWN! Join Los Angeles LGBT Center and Coin & Ghost — LA’s theatrical home for remixed mythologies — for this two-part performance event of epic proportions. ACT […]
It’s Trans Chorus LA’s second holiday show! Join TCLA for VOICES: A WINTER CABARET, a show of old holiday classics and new winter standards that are sure to bring audiences joys of mirth and merriment.
The sounds of Mariachi Arco•Iris de Los Angeles, the world’s first LGBTQ+ mariachi, come in full festive glory during a program of beautiful Navidad music. Join us for a joyous mariachi performance of traditional, modern, and classic Christmas and sacred music. Enjoy an offering of celebrated Navidad tunes by the incomparable Los Angeles Rainbow Mariachi.
From the creator of Latina Christmas Special, out comic Diana Yanez brings you her hilarious and personal first-generation American Christmas stories filled with quirky, spicy, and slightly scary holiday chaos. These entertaining tales of family quirks and festive mayhem will catapult you into the yuletide spirit!
The Los Angeles premiere of AN UNEXPECTED COMMUNITY, a documentary about the creation and success of Andrea Meyerson’s Women On The Net by Kathryn L Beranich. Q&A and hosted reception following screening. Film Synopsis In the early days of the pandemic, Andrea Meyerson, founder of Women On A Roll, launched Women On The Net, an […]
Celebrating New Works (CNW) is Celebration’s long-running new play reading series designed to shine a light on new and emerging voices within the LGBTQ+ community and the stories about/for them. Up next? Fauci and Kramer, a West Coast Premiere, one-night-only Staged Reading and Conversation with the playwright, Drew Fornarola. ABOUT FAUCI AND KRAMER “America’s Doctor” […]
It’s been a minute. Ages, even. SORORITY explores age, aging, age gaps, the passage of time, what things were like when we were young, and what things are like as we get older. Founded, curated, and hosted by playwright and director Gina Young, SORORITY started in 2016, as a late night k-hole for new short […]
CASUAL returns! Since 2019, CASUAL has created space for Los Angeles performing artists to show a work in process and engage in experimentation and critical exchange with audiences. The work can be loose, between the spark of an idea or an excerpt from a new performance in development. CASUAL aims to create a dialogue with […]
The Butterfly of Chula Vista by Giovanni Ortega follows Libertad, a Mexi-Pino (Mexican-Filipino American) as he embraces his many layers by performing at Divina’s BaranGay & Grill in Chula Vista. This heartfelt and fast-paced comedy touches on powerful themes about familial duty, identity, and acceptance. Libertad discovers freedom and belonging with a drag persona which […]
It’s the mid 1990s in Los Angeles, CA, where the skyline is picturesque with palm trees, the scent of pan dulce and smog fill the air, and the beat of nightlife is thumping with house music. At the center is a young Lucio Torres, who embarks on a journey of self-discovery and finds a vibrant […]
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Free access to Narcan and fentanyl testing strips are now available at the Center’s McDonald/Wright location in Hollywood.
On June 19, 1865, the last enslaved people in the United States were declared free. But according to Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter and author of An Abolitionist’s Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World, that lofty goal—freedom for all people—still has not been met more than 150 years later. “Black […]
