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Juneteenth is an eclectic three-day presentation of poetry, song, multimedia and performance pieces, highlighted by J.M. Morris's serious-to-satirical take on the Juneteenth, named for the day when Texas slaves learned of their emancipation--two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. The show is different each night. Starring CeCe Antoinette ("Law & Order"), Roylando Boyce ("Prison Break"), Haaz Sleiman ("24"), Mailon Rivera ("CSI: Miami") and more. Learn more...

Highways Performance Space celebrates eighteen years of developing and presenting fearlessly brave and uncensored new work with two nights of exciting comedy, dance and performance by nationally-renowned performers and Highways veterans. On Friday, enjoy a hilarious night of subversive queer comedy; Saturday features an eclectic mix of new performance, dance, and music. Buy tickets to both nights, or choose your favorite night to go. Learn more...

We meet up with Milo in her late thirties, sexually frustrated and alone. From there Milo rips apart her psychic package of emotional legacies--fear, obsessive love, destructive relationships, addiction, loneliness, and celibacy--journeying through ruefully funny misadventures in her quest for Love as a middle-aged chick in LA. Projected video of her parents become a Greek chorus; rubber chickens tell stories; Buddhism and a family death transform into a cathartic healing with free cookies. Learn more...

Highways Performance Space and Corpus Delicti, an LA-based butoh performance lab, create Global Butoh, an evening of provocative theater featuring world-renowned Butoh Master Katsura Kan from Kyoto, Japan, making his LA debut, and introducing performance troupe Black Stone Ensemble, from San Francisco. Together they explore ideas about humanity, environment, technology and conflict. Learn more...

René Garcia's 9-1-Buy-1 uses audio, remixed video and performance to explore how multinational corporations with governmental support used the tragic events of September 11, 2001, to create a new product: terrorism; and launch a new brand: Homeland Security. The evening also features "Yertle the Turtle and Other Despots," a political reading of the Dr. Seuss classic. Learn more...

Based on Francois Poulenc's ballet of the same name, Wanda Gala's new modern dance drama Les Biches tells a tale of a confused, dangerous young man whose love finds its expression in mayhem. Featuring puppetry by Eli Presser and an original score by Bob Bellerue. Learn more...

The 3rd Annual Poetry & Performance Fest, "Word Is Bond," celebrates the flavors of Los Angeles's spoken word scene with poets, DJs, singers, musicians, artists, dancers, and more. This year's festival is curated by E. Amato, and builds on already established tradition while broadening its reach to encompass the booming grassroots scene of spoken word poetry. See below for show lineup. Learn more...

Highways Performance Space presents an evening of visceral, visually imaginative short performance works. The evening will focus on ideas of freedom, authoritarianism, immigration, Machiavellianism, with puppets, projections and provocative imagery and ideas turned inside out. A casual reception will follow the performances. Learn more...

Crying beauty queens, rabid pin-ups and basic body functions collide when Highways Performance Space presents My Very Own Spontaneous Combustion, an evening of dance. The production features the individual work of Gregory Barnett of DanceGood.Damnit!!!, along with choreographers Angela Drown, Jeremy Hahn and Ally Voye, combined and integrated into a singular streaming performance. Learn more...

At the 14th Annual Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival, "Crossing the Line," three to five women will perform dynamic theatre pieces and musical works each night. This year's themed evenings are "Love's Got Everything to Do With It," "In Black and White," "From the Mouth of Babes" and "Uncommon Women." Learn more...

Highways Performance Space presents the premiere of Patrick Kennelly's I, Eternal Child, an adventurous, emotionally violent drama that reframes the life and work of notorious Austrian painter Egon Schiele. Employing a fractured, montage-like style, this new interdisciplinary work pushes beyond the rigid definitions of theater, performance, sound and cinema to create a unique, hybrid work. Learn more...

Highways Performance Space celebrates the power of nature and frolic with a forest of talent from Fauve Conspiracy, an exciting new avant-garde performance collective under the artistic direction of legendary performance/theatre maverick Rachel Rosenthal, in Arboretum, a festively surreal Total Theatre experience. Learn more...

Highways presents Popped!, the premiere performance of casebolt and smith, L.A.'s newest contemporary dance company. Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith have joined forces to presents an evening that ruptures the boundaries of friendship, collaboration and personal space while confronting issues of difference and familiarity. Learn more...

The wise and witty Quentin Crisp lives again and "returns" to Highways in this clever and heart-lifting, one-man, one-act musical about the flamboyantly eccentric international celebrity, and David Leddick's twenty-year friendship with him. Learn more...

Highways' 2nd Annual Latino New Works Festival features the return of Guillermo Gomez-Pena and La Pocha Nostra. The festival includes new performance, spoken word, dance and inter-disciplinary works that speak to the evolution of established and emerging Latino Artists. Learn more...

Highways Performance Space present a weekend of bitingly dark, witty solo performance with 4X4, four new works by four new artists. Joe Von Appen, April Hava Shenkman, Michael Phillis and Teresa Willis has each created a fresh and original new work for this one-of-a-kind show. Learn more...

Curated by Artistic Director, Leo Garcia, Highways Performance Space celebrates 17 years of developing and presenting fearlessly brave and uncensored new work with two nights of exciting dance and performance by nationally-renowned performers and Highways veterans, including Holly Hughes, Luis Alfaro, Diavolo, Holly Johnston's Ledges and Bones dancepProject, Stephanie Nugent, and Method Contemporary Dance (featuring Bradley Michaud & Jay Bartley). Purchase tickets to a single night, or a special package for both nights' performances. See event details for line-up. Learn more...

Combining ribald sensuality and searing romanticism, Jerker depicts the relationship between a Vietnam vet and a person with AIDS who fall in love during the course of 20 erotic phone calls. Learn more...

Based on his new book, 1001 Beds is a raucous and rowdy exploration of Tim Miller's adventures in a performer's life lived in his travels through love, politics and art. From a gay teen's head-on collision with life in a sleazy hotel across the street from the Hollywood Bowl, to an ecstatic vision of a future on a mattress in a police holding cell, Miller's 1001 Beds is a funny, provocative and inspiring story about the transforming power of art and the richness of gay identity lived out loud. Learn more...

Highways Performance Space deconstructs opera's conventions and quirks in this distillation of Puccini's operatic icon. The music is abridged, the lyrics are lip-synched, super-titles replace pages of libretto, and the performers borrow fascinating movement that ranges from Chinese opera through contemporary street dance. Learn more...

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Highways presents its 2nd Annual Poetry + Performance Fest: In the Beginning Was the Word. The 3-day festival features everything from best slam poets vying for a coveted prize to a midnight show featuring love poetry and the serving of aphrodisiacs. See full event description for each day's exciting line-up. Learn more...

Sometimes I Cry is a one-woman show written and conceived by award winning actress and honored AIDS activist, Sheryl Lee Ralph. This moving and provocative show was inspired by the real life stories of women infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Ralph becomes each one of these characters, breathing life into them and their stories with every move and simple gesture. Learn more...

In celebration of the Chinese New Year, Highways Performance Space presents Li Chiao-Ping Dance's L'Annee Du Chien. In signature fashion, Li Chiao-Ping dances the fine edge of classical beauty and postmodern eclecticism, physically exploring such emotions as pain, loss, regret, and redemption. L'Annee Du Chien is an evening consisting of a range of works centered around "L'Annee Du Chien," a part-dog, part-human story of learning how to sit and other tricks. Learn more...

Four mature gay men combine forces for self-exploration and self-revelation as they disclose significant events they experienced as children and young adults, and about their present lives in Los Angeles. A theatrical memoir that is honest, funny, and poignant, the journey includes integrated sound and visual images. Learn more...

Highways Perfromance Space presents Pop Tarts, two nights of performance, dance, video, and installation, including a West Coast debut by noted choreographer Karen Sherman, premieres from Selene Luna, Adrienne Picard & Erica Rice, and Marni Castor. There will also be durational works by Mariel Carranza and Tacos de Truth, some new songs from Phranc for you Pholkies, and video shorts from Dirty Sanchez and Chase Lounge. Each night has a different lineup. See show description for full details. Learn more...

Take a strange journey into a shadow world of sinister fantasy, magical transformation, and child-like wonder. Fabulous Monsters integrate live performers, shadow puppets, and other tricks for a mysterious evening of delightful illusion. Adapted from tales by Hans Christian Andersen and The Brothers Grimm. Learn more...

The Performance Collective is an exciting new Los Angeles based troupe of performing artists incorporating the signature styling of Rachel Rosenthal with their own international backgrounds to create engaging, innovative, physical, and highly expressive theatre. Planetary Delights is their offering of multimedia and vanguard performance works. Learn more...

Like many others who stayed behind during Hurricane Katrina, Jose Torres Tama expected that after a few days things in New Orleans would get back to normal. He managed to escape the chaos by running a rescue missionon out of New Orleans on a stolen Jefferson Parish School bus. Combining bilingual text, personal stories, movement, and rituals of fire and water, Torres Tama speaks of his experience. Learn more...

Artists provide more than a dozen interactive performance experiences that will have you crying for mommy or laughing until you wet yourself. Carnival-esque cultural activities include the Taco Truck of Truth, Queer Chicana/o Petting Zoo, a live animal act, pensive puppetry, "gambling," flesh peddling, a somewhat accurate psychic, rides and an opportunity to "whack" Bush! Learn more...

You're dead. You're damned. But there is a show in the lounge. A funny, flamboyant, and macabre musical ride into Hades. This Halloween, The Discount Cruise to Hell has cooked up a wicked brew for you, a Halloween party to end all Halloween parties. Learn more...

Two beautiful showgirls must save the world from outerspace aliens, wrestling werewolves...and bad taste. They cruise through the South American countryside in their convertible. Their mission: to locate and apprehend the Buenos Aires Decapitator, a fiendish maniac who is killing the voluptuous beauties of Buenos Aires. Not quite horror, not quite sci-fi, but all comedy, Screech treats b-movies with a refreshingly feminine take on beauty, comedy, and horror. Learn more...

Highways Presents the First Latino New Works Festival: !Que Viva La Evolution! Each night features new performances, including spoken word, dance, and inter-disciplinary work that speaks to the evolution of L.A.'s established and emerging Latino artists. Learn more...

Highways presents a sizzling celebration of Middle Eastern Dance with Layali Al Saif (Summer Night) from producer Princess Farhana. This exotic Middle Eastern dance show will shoot the mercury right through the roof! From Belly Dance to Bollywood, from classic Middle Eastern folkloric style to cutting edge fusion, this amazing dance show will bring you around the world, in one dreamy summer night. Learn more...

Highways Performance Space, Southern California's preeminent venue for alternative performance and visual arts, presents 4X4, a performance series featuring the new works by 4 emerging Latino artists. Learn more...

Highways Performance Space celebrates its 16th year with two eclectic evenings of new and powerful work by renowned L.A. performers and ensembles, including Histo-tainer Charles Phoenix, Empire of Teeth, Helios Dance Theater, Oguri and Company, Fabulous Monsters, Maria Gillespie's Oni Dance and much more! Learn more...

Highways Performance Space presents Choreographing Democracy, a new work curated by Victoria Marks and Laura Fuller featuring both experienced and emerging artists exploring themes of justice, responsibility and privacy. Learn more...

Highways Performance Space Presents Theatre Movement Bazaar's new multi-disciplinary performance Watch. Using downloaded text from the website of Richard Foreman, this collaborative work is a look at two people stuck between promise and dread. Set onstage within a 24' by 8' box, Watch is a kind of vaudeville, intimate and askew. Learn more...

Highways Performance Space presents the West Coast Debut of Brazilian dancer- choreographer Cristina Moura, in a stunning exploration of impulse: physical, emotional, and psychological. Learn more...

In honor of National Poetry Month, Highways Performance Space presents In The Beginning Was The Word, a three-day festival merging poetry with performance and multi-media curated by nationally recognized poet/performer LeVan D. Hawkins. Learn more...

Highways presents all-American Jewish lesbian folksinger Phranc to celebrate with old favorites and brand new songs in an intimate concert. Learn more...

An extraordinary, evening of laughs, thrills, chills, drama, and suspense in the new physical comedy by Russian clown, Vladimir Levitansky. Be transported in to a world of absurd imagination, as you watch one clown's misguided attempts to bring order to a chaos of his own making, with hilarious results. Learn more...

Highways and Kin Dance Company present some of the most promising new dancers and choreographers in Standing on the Edge, Highways First Annual Youth Chorography Fest. Learn more...

Highways Performance Space present Synapse New Dance Works, an eclectic program of dance by alumni of Synapse Dance Theater, the Santa Monica College Contemporary Dance Ensemble. This evening of innovative modern dance, hip-hop, poetry and dance, video, and puppetry spotlights alumni and celebrates the dramatic possibilities of dance. Learn more...

Alternative rappers and their homies give hip-hop a makeover, featuring MC's DeadLee, JB Rap, Katastrophe, Salvimex, Jenro, Rigamortis and DJ Johnny Turok. Plus screenings of Pick Up the Mic and Good Soldier. Learn more...

L.A.-based choreographers Carmela Hermann and Kristen Smiarowski dance, talk, throw tomatoes, and begin again in an evening of provocative, physical dances that say what they need to say and get off the stage. Learn more...

After a nearly six-year hiatus, the notorious sketch-comedy group returns to Los Angeles to take on a whole new herd of sacred cows with Older! Uglier! Meaner!. Learn more...

Let Highways be your date, or bring your sweetheart to an evening of chocolate covered sexy, silly, and oh so sentimental Valentine's Day Performances. Learn more...

Blending opera, blues, puppetry, and mask work, Highways Performance Space presents the World Premiere of The Red Red Rose, a modern adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Nightingale and the Rose. Learn more...