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Larry Powell’s “The Gaze … No Homo” is difficult to classify. It started as a play, morphed into a web series and now is being presented by Center Theatre Group in a repackaged form for the digital stage.
The question isn’t simply academic. Understanding what you’re watching is important because a play isn’t streaming television or cinema, and even a hybrid has to make artistic choices that are medium specific.
“No Homo” centers on a 28-year-old Black queer actor named Jerome Price (Galen J. Williams), an ambitious talent fresh from grad school, who’s trying to navigate his way through the white power structure of the American theater. Jerome has been cast in a play at the exalted Evergreen Festival, located in a “WASPY, woodsy, white” community that, despite the elaborate welcome wagon, doesn’t feel especially inviting to someone who has been tagged “from the ’hood.”
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Matthew Bourne s Romeo and Juliet is premiering Thursday, FEBRUARY 18 at 5:00 p.m. and streaming Friday, FEBRUARY 19 at 5 and 8 pm; Saturday, FEBRUARY 20 at 2, 5 and 8 p.m. and Sunday, FEBRUARY 21 at 1 and 6:30 p.m. (all times Pacific). Available for $10 at www.centertheatregroup.org/digitalstage/premium-events/matthew-bourne-romeo-and-juliet/.
A production from 2019, never before seen in Los Angeles, Matthew Bourne s Romeo and Juliet is a passionate and contemporary re-imagining of Shakespeare s classic story of love and conflict. Set in the not-too-distant future in The Verona Institute and mysteriously confined against their will by a society that seeks to divide and crush their youthful spirits, our two young lovers must follow their hearts as they risk everything to be together.
The Groundlings present the online storytelling night, Sh!t My Folks Don t Know. (Courtesy of The Groundlings)
Tuesday, Jan. 19; 7 p.m. PST
Sh!t My Folks Don t Know
Groundlings alum Karen Maruyama directs this live virtual comedy show featuring Jillian Bell (
Bless the Harts), Michael Hitchcock (
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Jeremy Rowley (
Bless the Harts), Ian Gary (
Top Gun: Maverick) and Michaela Watkins (
The Unicorn). The cast shares some of their deepest, dirtiest secrets stories even their closest loved ones haven t heard. yet.
Laverne Cox is featured in the documentary Disclosure, and participates in a Hammer Museum panel on the film. (Courtesy of Netflix)