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• Pacifica Performance Showcase, Friday, March 27 at 2:30 pm with guests actor Ryan Jinn ("Kim's Convenience") and Executive Producer, Kenji G. Taguma (15TH ANNUAL FILMS OF REMEMBRANCE)

  Host Donna Walker welcomes actor Ryan Jinn, currently starring in "Kim's Convenience" at the Ahmanson. The play gave rise to the Netflix series of the same name about a Canadian Korean family running a convenience store, dealing with "customers, each other and the world around them."

  Posted by Donna Walker at Wednesday, March 25, 2026

• LA Theatre Works, Sunday, March 29 at 10:00 pm, Beth Henley's "Abundance" starring Amy Madigan, Ed Begley, Jr., Gary Cole, Steven Weber and JoBeth Williams

  From Beth Henley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Crimes of the Heart, comes this story of the hard lives of pioneers on the high plains of Wyoming in the 1860s. Macon and Bess are two mail-order brides, lured to the West by the promise of new beginnings through marriage to men they've never met. As Abundance follows the two women through their friendship and adventures for the next 25 years, this Western epic unearths the dark underside of American mythology. Includes a feature with Chris Enss, author of Hearts West: True Stories of Mail-Order Brides on the Frontier.

  Posted by Donna Walker at Wednesday, March 25, 2026

• Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show, Tuesday, March 24 at 2:00 pm with guest writer/comedian Debbie Kasper

  Debbie Kasper is a stand-up comedian and writer. She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her work on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show." She also wrote for "Roseanne" during its ninth season. Her one-woman show, "Monkeys on My Back & Everywhere Else!" is now playing at the Odyssey Theater in Los Angeles. She co-wrote and co-stars in "Self-Help: The Comedy" and tours in the show.

  Posted by Donna Walker at Monday, March 23, 2026

• Pacifica Performance Showcase, Friday, March 20 at 2:30 pm, with guest Filmmaker Robert Sarkies ("Pike River")

  In honor of Women's International History Month, host Donna Walker welcomes filmmaker Robert Sarkies to discuss his film "Pike River" starring Melanie Lynskey, Robyn Malcolm and Lucy Lawless, based on the actual events surrounding the 2010 mining disaster in Pike River in New Zealand. Two remarkable, courageous women - one who lost her son, the other her husband - made it their mission to bring a negligent corporation to account, no matter the odds stacked against them, culminating in a political movement which brought Jacinda Ardern to power and a message of perseverance and hope.

  Posted by Donna Walker at Thursday, March 19, 2026

• LA Theatre Works, Sunday, March 22 a 10:00 pm, Henrik Ibsen's masterpiece "Hedda Gabler" starring Jocelyn Towne and J.D. Cullum

  Hedda and George have just returned from their honeymoon, but when her former lover Eilert appears with a brilliant new manuscript, George’s hopes for a professorship are dimmed. Hedda’s desperate dissatisfaction with her life leads to dangerous choices in this startling portrait of a woman hell-bent on destruction. English version by Doug Hughes. Also starring Gregory Harrison and Josh Bitton. Directed by Debbie Devine.

  Posted by Donna Walker at Wednesday, March 18, 2026

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