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OCMA has reopened after shutting down to complete construction. Plus, Simone Forti at MOCA and a book on Richard Gilman, in our weekly arts newsletter

Thirty years after its premiere at the Mark Taper Forum, the seminal play on the 1992 uprising after the LAPD's beating of Rodney King is back in L.A.

Anna Deavere Smith and director Gregg T. Daniel revisit the writer/performer's groundbreaking solo documentary theater piece, retrofitted for a cast of five, in a new production at the Mark Taper Forum.

Written by Sarah Ladipo Manyika, published in 2022 by Footnote Press, Between Starshine and Clay is a composition of encounters with 11 living and 1 deceased titan of modern history.

>> i asked if he was worried the movie would not appeal to a broad audience. >> if it's good enough, people are going to come. the minute black artists start thinking about crossover, they start diluting the work, watering it down, and the work suffers. >> when we look at the john singletons and the spikes, all the way across the board, this became the era where we took charge of our own culture, our own cultural icons, and telling our own stories expressed either in music or in theater or in cinema. >> in los angeles, one woman is stirring memories and trying to bring about an understanding o...