In the days leading up to one of Cassius Clay’s most anticipated fights, the heavyweight boxing champion forms an unlikely friendship with the controversial Hollywood star Stepin Fetchit. With a rhythmic script by award-winning performer and playwright Will Power and direction by Emmy Award® winner, Debbie Allen, Fetch Clay, Make Man explores the improbable bond that forms between two drastically different and influential cultural icons. One a vibrant and audacious youth, the other a resentful and almost forgotten relic—together as they fight to form their public personas and shape their legacies amidst the struggle of the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-1960s. This true story is as powerful and poetic as Clay himself while also humorous and irreverent like Fetchit’s signature act. Finding commonality in contradiction, Fetch Clay, Make Man examines the true meaning of strength, resilience, and pride.
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The Double V
International City Theatre (8/21 - 9/8)
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The Civility of Albert Cashier
The Colony Theatre (8/31 - 9/22) NEW MUSICAL | |
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Gruesome Playground Injuries
The Davidson/Valentini Theatre - LA LGBT Center (9/19 - 9/29)
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Vance Joy
Hollywood Bowl (9/8 - 9/8) | |
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'A Night in November'
The Pico (9/5 - 9/8)
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Jazz on Tap at the Bowl
Hollywood Bowl (9/11 - 9/11) | |
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Cumbia at the Bowl!
Hollywood Bowl (9/22 - 9/22) | |
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Fireworks Finale: Boyz II Men
Hollywood Bowl (9/15 - 9/15) | |
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Rodrigo y Gabriela
Hollywood Bowl (9/18 - 9/18) | |
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Dudamel and the Stars of Opera
Hollywood Bowl (9/12 - 9/12) | |
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Natalia Lafourcade and Gustavo Dudamel
Hollywood Bowl (9/6 - 9/7) | |
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The Concert: A Tribute to ABBA
Hollywood Bowl (9/20 - 9/20) | |
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Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music Sing-A-Long
Hollywood Bowl (9/21 - 9/21) | |
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Dudamel Leads Beethoven 9
Hollywood Bowl (9/10 - 9/10) | |
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Classic Albums Live band posing with instruments Classic Albums Live Presents: Fleetwood Mac—Rumours
Pepperdine Smothers Theatre (9/13 - 9/13) | |
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Completeness
Eastwood Performing Arts Center (9/20 - 9/28) | |
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Hadestown
Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Segerstrom Hall (10/29 - 11/3) | |
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Tartuffe: Born Again
Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum (7/13 - 10/13) | |
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Fake It Until You Make It
Center Theatre Group at the Mark Taper Forum (1/29 - 3/9) | |
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