FILM
Cult Classics Cinema presents B.A.P.S. – 6 PM, March 14:
Experience an unforgettable night at Cult Classics Cinema, hosted and curated by DJ Rosegawd. This edition features the classic film, B.A.P.S (an acronym for Black American Princesses) is a 1997 American buddy comedy film directed by Robert Townsend and starring Halle Berry, Natalie Desselle, and Martin Landau. Two young African American women with big dreams travel to L.A. to become helpers for a rich but kindhearted elderly white man. The film was written by Troy Byer and was her first screenplay. The film features several celebrity cameos, including LL Cool J, Leon Robinson, Heavy D, and Dennis Rodman. The Miracle Theater, 226 South Market St. Inglewood.
Belly – 7 PM – March 13: Get ready for DMX and Nas to take over the streets in Hype Williams’ visually stunning crime drama. The only feature film in Hype Williams’ storied career of directing over 200 music videos, after literally making a name for himself through graffiti, Belly goes beyond the average street drama. Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign last? Vidiots, 4884 Eagle Rock Blvd., Los Angeles.
Black Girl – 8 PM, March 10: Ousmane Sembène, one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived and the most internationally renowned African director of the twentieth century, made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl (La noire de . . .). Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a figurative and literal prison—into a complex, layered critique on the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement—and one of the essential films of the 1960s. Vidiots, 4884 Eagle Rock Blvd., Los Angeles.
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday – 6 PM, March 13: After being blown away by a team of FBI agents, Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) needs to find a way to overcome certain death. When his bloodied remains are sent to the morgue, his heart, still intact, is able to hypnotize a coroner and take over his body. After brutally dispatching a couple of FBI agents, he heads back to his favorite stomping grounds: Crystal Lake. Jason commences another teen massacre while a bounty hunter discovers the only way to kill him. Gardena Cinema, 14948 Crenshaw Blvd., Gardena.
COMMUNITY
The Ebell Institute Film Symposium, 7 PM, March 10: Join The Ebell Institute for a special virtual symposium honoring the groundbreaking contributions of women in film. The engaging panel discussion will bring together scholars, filmmakers, and storytellers for a powerful conversation about the impact and legacy of women in cinema — and celebrate the trailblazers who continue to shape the film industry. Confirmed speakers and symposium topics include:
Susan Vaill, ACE — Unfogging the Lens: Seeing Women Film Editors Clearly
Mary Mallory — Cecil B. DeMille and Film’s Early Female Trailblazers
Rosanne Welch — Women of Early Hollywood
Tricia Nelson — Frédérique Rosine de Grésac:A Woman Named Fred
Y’Dhanna Daniels — Suzanne de Passe: Writer, Leader, Innovator
COMEDY
Tennessee Williams Unscripted – 7 PM, March 9: The bourbon is strong, the air is thick, and nobody is telling the whole truth. Impro Theatre unleashes a brand-new, fully improvised Southern tragicomedy inspired by the electrifying world of Tennessee Williams. Fueled by audience suggestions, each performance becomes a fever dream of magnolias, moonlight, smoldering desire, and emotional mayhem. Secrets simmer beneath polite smiles. Desire ignites. Confessions detonate. Hearts break beautifully. Poetic, scandalous, and uproariously funny — and never to be seen again. Featuring Edi Patterson, Kari Coleman, Stephen Kearin, Amy Kidd, Nick Massouh, Dan O’Connor, and Mike Rock. Dynasty Typewriter, 2511 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles.
Fuck This Month – 8:30 PM, March 12: An improv comedy show based on your shitty month! Let’s face it; this month was trash. We’re here to help! Come to the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and watch the best comedians in Los Angeles turn your misery into comedy. Toast this garbage month off by throwing up your middle finger and sharing what made it suck so royally. A cast of veteran comedians will take your stories of woe and spin them into comedy gold. Therapy through laughter! Get your tickets and join us in sending this stupid month back to hell where it belongs. Featuring Angela Giarratana, Lilan Bowden, Kylie Brakeman, Jerah Milligan, Waleed Mansour, Eli Gonzalez, Lauren Knutti, Jeff Whitaker. Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre 5919 Franklin Avenue, Los Angeles.
Happy Hour Saturdays w/ Jenny – March 14-28: For three Saturday Happy Hours in March, comedian Jenny Yang will work out new material about her Chinese medicine fertility experiences in Taiwan, the necessity for women to be single, childless and moisturized, and what it means to be more gay, Mexican and immigrant every single day in 2026. These work-in-progress standup comedy shows feature a pay-what-you-can suggested ticket price of around twenty bucks, a 5PM pre-show happy hour, 6PM comedy show AND you can be on your way home or to dinner by 7:30PM. Outside In ArtBox, 5319 York Blvd. Los Angeles.
MUSIC
The R&B Lovers Tour- 8 PM, March 14: Keith Sweat, Joe, Dru Hill, Ginuwine, and Kut Klose are set to bring nostalgic 90s/early ’00s to the a certain generation of folks. Peacock Theater, 777 Chick Hearn Court, Los Angeles.
THEATRE
Dragon Mama – through April 12: Broadway star Sara Porkalob returns to the Geffen Playhouse for the second installment of “The Dragon Cycle.” In this next chapter, Maria Porkalob, Jr. dreams of a bigger, gayer life beyond Bremerton, WA. But when an unexpected chance to escape arises, she faces an impossible choice—stay with her struggling family or chase freedom in the wilds of Alaska. Packed with ghosts, Filipino gangsters, and a killer ’90s R&B soundtrack, this award-winning, high-octane solo show is a raw, hilarious, and deeply moving story of resilience, queer love, and what it takes to break free and find home. Geffen Playhouse, 10886 Le Conte Ave. Los Angeles.
Luca & Uri – through March 15: Luca & Uri opens with a breakup between two men fiercely bound by love yet unable to hold on, tracing the fractured arc of their decade-long relationship in Los Angeles. As their dreams and desires pull them apart, their intimacy dissolves into quiet compromises and mounting silences, exposing the gradual erosion of self. Unfolding like a fractured memory through moments of tenderness, passion, and resentment, the play confronts the cost of staying, the quiet courage it takes to leave, and the heartbreak of loving someone so deeply you begin to disappear inside them. The Victory Theatre Centre, 3324 W Victory Blvd. Burbank.
