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The L.A. Times' Festival of Books takes over USC, Andrew Scott does "Vanya," TCM fest shines across L.A. Here's your ultimate culture guide to this weekend and beyond.

VENICE, Calif. — Wolf Mankowitz’s The Bespoke Overcoat is a theatrical adaptation of “The Overcoat,” a short story written in 1842 by the Ukrainian-born Nikolai Gogol, who along with Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev and Gorky is one of the most renowned contributors to Russian literature.

There's always something different or new to do in the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles area.

At its heart, Middle of the World is something of an unexpected love story between a fallen socialist leader from Ecuador and a young, driven Black finance executive. Middle of the World feels like an elegy, evoking the bittersweet, numbing ache of loss and betrayal. It invokes a sense of loss of an identity, a family, a country.

There's always something different or new to do in the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles area.

There's always something different or new to do in the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles area.

'Mercury,' by Steve Yockey, the creator/showrunner of HBO Max's 'The Flight Attendant,' and 'Middle of the World' by TV executive Juan José Alfonso spin yarns designed to hook restless audiences.

There's always something different of new to do in the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles area.

James Urbaniak stars as an Abstract Expressionist painter with a double life in the world premiere of John Ross Bowie's 'Brushstroke' at the Odyssey Theatre.

There's always something different or new to do in the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles area.