Overview

• The production opened Sunday at Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum, marking the Los Angeles premiere and final stop of a multi-city tour.
• Jocelyn Bioh’s 2019-set workplace comedy unfolds in a Harlem West African salon, centering community, labor and the daily realities of Black and immigrant women.
• Directed by Whitney White, who earned a Tony nomination for the Broadway staging in 2023, the show draws praise for its ensemble energy and comic bite.
• Cast members Bisserat Tseggai, Jordan Rice, Victoire Charles and Claudia Logan prepared with braiding workshops to authentically perform the salon’s craft onstage.
• Design contributions by Nikiya Mathis (hair and wigs), Dede Ayite (costumes) and David Zinn (scenic) help balance raucous humor with themes of immigration, undocumented status and citizenship pressures.