July 3 + 4

AMERICA: YOU WERE THERE!
THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE LOS ANGELES

The flamboyant troupe of drag nun activists present their comically twisted version of American history. Authored by Highways veteran, Sister Unity Divine, "America" takes the audience from the very beginning, and we’re talking Homo Erectus crossing the Berring Straits land bridge beginning, all the way up to the recent election of President Obama. The through line makes as much sense as the bearded men in nuns’ habits and glitter who present it: God sent Pilgrims to North America to build rockets to go into space.

Along the way, the spectacle serves up food for the audience on trays, “Naked Abraham Lincoln”, and lectures that hit on all the salient details of a real American history course only to toss them into a mental meat grinder and spew them out in hilariously mis-appropriated ways. Some subjects are presented on serious notes, like slavery, and several of the wars, while other sacred cows are sacrificed on the altar of satire. Not even the Civil Rights Movement escapes the sisters’ treatment.

Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15
Proceeds Benefit Highways

July 10 + 11

GAY POWERED: NOW & THEN

CREATED BY MICHAEL KEARNS

FEATURING:
JOHN W. MCLAUGHLIN & DEREK RINGOLD

Featuring “Stonewall Rapture,” performed by John W. McLaughlin +“So Hard,” Derek Ringold’s hit solo performance piec, Gay Powered journeys from the streets of Greenwich Village in the late sixties to the streets of West Hollywood in the 21st Century, encompassing the Stonewall Riots and the ongoing No on Prop 8 campaign. You’ll “meet” a host of characters—from Candy Darling to Kevin Spacey, from Andy Warhol to Anderson Cooper.

Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15

July 17 + 18

CREATURE/CREATIONS
by EUGENIO GRIFFERO 

featuring MINERVA GARCIA
adapted & directed by ABRAHAM CELAYA

Once upon a very terrible time, a Woman coped with the slaughter of her friends and family by turning herself into a Hen...

That's the premise of Creature / Creations (A Political Fable about Responsibility and Delusion in Oppressive Times), a one-woman show written in 1981 by Argentinean writer Eugenio Griffero in Argentina during the 1970-1981 military dictatorship. The expressionistic fable recounts the tale of a Woman whose whole world has been turned upside down. Family and friends are all dead. She survives by thinking she is a hen. But as she examines her life, she comes to the shocking realization that she has been a “collaborator” in the terror and violence that engulfed her. It was easier for her to look the other way, deluding herself with fantasies and distractions in order to enjoy her privileged status, the middle way.

Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15

July 24 + 25

I DIDN'T CRY
Co-Produced by C.R.Y. Productions & Living Your Arts

WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY SERGIA PEREZ
DIRECTED BY HILDA WILLIS

In this true, yet tragic love story, Perez portrays her sister Santa, a 14 year old Latina, who falls in love with an older man and through an indiscreet series of life choices, experiences love, drugs, pregnancy, abuse, AIDS and ultimately death. Audiences are invited into the world of Shaila, Santa and Soledad as they love, live and learn through the choices they make, encouraging the audience to consider their choices as well.
Originally Choreographed by Melvada Hughes

Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15

August 1

(dub)zeck

PATRICK KENNELLY w/ KATE FOX
in collaboration with: AARON DRAKE, ANDRAE GONZALO, and MATT MELLINGER

Performers:
Gregory Barnett, Gia Battista, Marissa Casados, Radick Cembrzynski, Sonia Oleniak, Eliezer Ortiz, Paul Outlaw, Justin Streichman

This performative mixtape is a molotov cocktail flung at the cold, clean environs of modern theater. Plunging "Under My Thumb," Baudrillard, "The Message," Chuck Norris, CNN and other fragments into the boiling tempest of Buchner’s classic expressionist text Woyzeck, a shadowy post-future America is mapped wherein all sense of meaning in communication has been erased.  Performed in English, French, Polish, and Spanish.

Fri + Sat 8:30pm
a FREE event sponsored by Highways + 18th Street Art Night

 

August 7 + 8

BIG GAY PEEP SHOW
curated by IAN MACKINNON

Constant web exposure and media over-saturation is pushing us to reveal ourselves more and more. Come get a peep at what’s not getting enough airplay.

Exposing their hearts, minds, bodies, childhoods, dirty stories, and maybe even the contents of their underwear, local and national performance artists team up for an arty party fundraiser to benefit Highways. All are invited to participate by bringing cameras and recording devices to spread the action electronically. Featuring an audience participation peepshow booth, erotic video installation, silent art auction, drinking, and dancing.

Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15

August 14 + 15

DON'T TRUST ANYONE OVER THIRTY:
30 YEARS OF EZTV

.In celebration of their 30th Anniversary, LA's fiercely independent media arts group will take a two day trip down memory lane, as it combines special surprise live guest performances, with clips from many of its most historic video projects.

For updates check www.eztvmedia.com

FRIDAY - "Evolving Media" - Live and digital performances with Kate Johnson, Sue Dakin and other guests.

SATURDAY - Premiere of Michael Kearns' feature film "Dream Man" plus classic EZTV short LGBT videos.

Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15

 

 

August 21 + 22

CREATIVE PROVOCATEURS, VOL. 1

NEW WORKS B Y J.M. MORRIS, ANTWONE FISHER + TINA ANDREWS

This collection of three dramatic & satirical stage works is the 7th Highways project by writer-producer J.M. Morris, and the Highways debut of two award-winning writer-producers and their new works, “Finding Fish” by Antwone Fisher and “Dusky Charlotte” by Tina Andrews.

Fri (Part 1) + Sat (Part 2) 8:30pm $20/$15
$35 for Special VIP Duo Pass for Fri + Sat

August 28 + 29

HOLD YOUR MUD, L.A.
BARBARA T. SMITH

with:
Kate Johnson, Michael Masucci, Michael Intriere, Susan Rawcliffe, The Dark Bob, and Michael Mollet

Whimsical somnambulence, care-free chaos, terrifying madness & lyric ecstasy, as we sit enveloped by sound.

Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15

September 4 + 5

DIE MUTHAFUCKAH DIE!!!
(A Eulogy)
DANCEGOODDAMNIT!!!

A night of humor and compassion for the perpetually brokenhearted. Jackie Onassis, mass suicide and karaoke team up with Tina Turner and collected love letters in an attempt at acceptance of love's relentless persistence and the inescapable reality of constant death. Guest performances by the phenomenal Marnie Castor + more!!!

Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15

September 11 + 12

FALLS FROM GRACE
THE QUARTERLY REPORT

Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15

 

September 18 + 19

HOMOSENSUALITY
IAN MACKINNON + CLINT STEINHAUSER

Performance artists MacKinnon and Steinhauser team up to Get More Gay! In a world that demands assimilation, Clint and Ian hop off the bus to visit sights that may have been missed or forgotten in our mad rush for acceptance. Using movement, spoken word, video and sound collage, memories, dreams, erections, reflections, myth, magic, and hist-orgies converge into a transcendent queer vision of the future.  Including a cast of fabulous local artists.

Fri + Sat 8:30pm $20/$15

September 20

PERFORMING DIASPORA
CounterPULSE

Works-in-progress by Dulce Capadocia's Silayan Philippine-American Dance Company, Ana Maria Alvarez's CONTRA-TIEMPO, Prumsodun Ok, and Sri Susilowati. Post show talk.

CounterPULSE’s Performing Diaspora is a festival, residency program, commissioning program, and symposium featuring dance, music, theater, media and interdisciplinary artists who are using traditional forms as a basis for experimentation and innovation. Created in partnership with several local and statewide organizations, Performing Diaspora is a two-year initiative challenging artists and audiences to explore the evocative questions associated with this work. The Performing Diaspora Residency offers the competitively selected artists several opportunities to share the developing work and process with the public. The Work-in-Progress performances allow audiences to engage in the creative process through feedback, and to follow the work through development to completion when the final work will be shown in November at the Performing Diaspora Festival. 

Sun 3:00pm $10

 

 

September 25 - 27

5TH ANNUAL LATINA/O NEW WORKS FESTIVAL
Curated by LEO GARCIA

Friday + Saturday
Pro-cliTvities
A collection of original works. Karen Anzoategui, Maceo Cabrera Estevez, Raquel Gutierrez, Lizz Huerta and reina alejandra prado share their humorous and thoughtful take on sexuality, eroticism and the centrifugal force de nuestro clitoris.
+ Guest Artist Marcus Kuiland-Nazario
8:30pm $20/$15

Sunday
Butchlalis de Panochtitlan + La Maricolectiva
7:30pm $20/$15

 

 

October 2 - 4

FRUIT
KEVIN WILLIAMSON DANCE

An evening of dance bent on the trite, forbidden, and experimental wonders of discordant beliefs. Five individuals grapple with a mind/body head-butt as they attempt to exercise both their sensual and spiritual ways. 

Fri + Sat 8:30pm
Sun 3:00pm $20/$15

UPCOMING
- Soma Fest -
- The Discount Cruise to Hell -