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Oh hey — I think you left a present under the tree. Could you do me a favor and unwrap that real quick? It’s COIN & GHOST’S 2025 SEASON! – 💀 THE INDEX OF FORBIDDEN BOOKS Directed by @celiamandela Co-Presented with @lalgbtcenter Named after the Vatican’s original banned book list, “The Index” is Coin & Ghost’s multidisciplinary solo performance festival designed to explore the off-limits. — 🕳️ THE AARON PLAY (Workshop) Written by @art_on_my_sleeve Directed by @thespomancer Co-Presented with @indyshakes “The Aaron Play” picks up right where Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus” left off: with its self-proclaimed villain buried up to his chest, watched by Roman guards, and visited by ghosts from his past, as he tries to talk his way out of a death sentence and reunite with his infant son. — 🪽 ROOM BY THE SEA (World Premiere) Written by @juanmigueljuanson Directed by @hashmotogram Co-Produced with @afterhourstheatreco A boy dreams of flight and his father dreams of safety – but a royal secret threatens to trap them both in a labyrinth they will never escape. “RBTS” is a story you know. It’s a story of families, class, and survival. But it is also the story of something else…something monstrous. — 🏀 THE HERITAGE (Workshop) Written by @thekjohnson A new play about the crossroads of athletics and activism – of politics, patriotism, and the cost of Black superstardom. — ✨ UNTITLED LYSISTRATA PROJECT (Workshop) Written by @rogerq.mason Directed by @thespomancer Witness the revolution through “Untitled Lysistrata Project,” a modern, feminist adaptation that centers Trans and Gender Non-Conforming sex workers and their clients. — 🎁 THE NAUGHTY LIST Directed by @queen.elisa.jasmine Mark your (advent) calendars for the return of C&G’s infamous holiday burlesque spectacular, a sexy fan-favorite that will have you begging for myrrh. — Link in bio to learn more about (and support) this season’s projects!

Look at this stuff — isn’t it neat? 🌈🪄💋🎤🏰 We had an absolute BALL earlier this month at QUEER MAGIC DRAG KARAOKE KINGDOM, and we hope you did too. All we can say for sure…is that our performers were fierce as all hell!!! Swipe for fireworks. . Photos by @thekjohnson

It’s Friday the 13th — LET’S CAMP THE PLACE UP A BIT, SHALL WE? 🌈🪄💋🎤🏰 Tickets still available for tonight’s QUEER MAGIC DRAG KARAOKE KINGDOM (8pm at the Renberg Theatre in Hollywood). It’s all the joy of a Haunted Mansion churro, without the drive to Anaheim! . Tickets at coinandghost.org/magickingdom or at the link in our bio! Photo by @julianjqn.

ONE SLEEP TILL DRAGMAS! 🌈🪄💋🎤🏰 Part Disney hits, part drag excellence, part spooky holiday hoopla, and a little bit of secret sauce: Queer Magic Drag Karaoke Kingdom hits the stage TOMORROW NIGHT, on Friday the 13th! Do you have your tickets yet? 👀 — @baca.desu, photo by @julianjqn

We heard you like drag queens. 😍 We do too. So for this Friday’s show, we went out and found seven of THE MOST STUNNING QUEENS/KINGS/MONARCHS that the city has to offer! Some will be familiar to C&G audiences (including Pixie Dot and Yogurt Parfay, pictured here in 2023’s “Joey’s Queernceañera”). Some may be brand-new to you. But they’re all about to tear the stage up something fierce, and Y’ALL AIN’T READY. 🌈🪄💋🎤🏰 QUEER MAGIC DRAG KARAOKE KINGDOM Friday the 13th at 8pm Co-Presented with (and hosted by) Los Angeles LGBT Center — Tickets at coinandghost.org/magickingdom (or at the link in our bio)!

THIS FRIDAY THE 13TH, it’s time for “Queer Magic Drag Karaoke Kingdom,” co-presented with Los Angeles LGBT Center! 🌈🪄💋🎤🏰 Act one features curated drag performances based on your fave animated movies…then we’ll take a lil’ intermission before coming back for OPEN MIC DISNEY KARAOKE. Visit coinandghost.org/magickingdom (or the link in our bio) for info and tickets! . . Photos by @julianjqn

We are exactly ONE WEEK AWAY from Queer Magic Drag Karaoke Kingdom — you got your tickets yet? — Link in bio or at coinandghost.org/magickingdom!

Don we now our gay apparel — it’s time to meet the performers for next week’s QUEER MAGIC DRAG KARAOKE KINGDOM! It’s a regular Who’s Who of Ho Ho Hoes, ready to put on a mother-tucking SHOWWWWW! #sleigh 🎵🌈 If you like drag queens. Or Disney. Or karaoke. Or Christmas. Or Friday the 13th. Then hop on your reindeer and meet us at the LA LGBT Center, because this is literally *the one show you will ever see* that combines all those things. 🎵🌈 Friday the 13th. 8pm. Tickets at link in bio and/or at coinandghost.org/magickingdom!

If you’ve spent much time around the nonprofit theatre world, you’ve probably heard some variation of the sentence “ticket sales only cover about 40% of our operating costs” (for C&G, that number is closer to 43%). This is partly because creating live theatre is so gosh-dang expensive — particularly if you’re committed to paying your artists equitably for their time and labor — but it’s also because this is the model. This is how American nonprofits are designed to run. 👾 // It’s not a bug. It’s a feature. // 👾 It’s easy to look at other countries that offer more government support for the arts (shoutout to the EU) and say “wow, wouldn’t that be nice, why can’t we have that here?” But the American nonprofit model DEMANDS community engagement. The theatres that thrive — hell, the theatres that SURVIVE — are the ones that people can’t imagine their community without. It is, inherently, a democratic and hyperlocalized industry model…which is kinda badass, if you stop to think about it. . So. If Coin & Ghost is important to you. If you would be sad if this company didn’t exist. If you want to be a part of the absolutely INSANE lineup of projects we have on tap for 2025 (which we are announcing soooooon). Then please consider hitting the DONATE link in our bio and making us a part of your philanthropic plans this very special Giving Tuesday. ❤️