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Up-and-coming troupe 12 Peers Theater returns with another high-concept show. Existence and the Single Girl follows a 12-year-old girl who’s obsessed with pondering ng the meaning of life, and d whose cure — as prescribed ed by a psychologist — is to become a pop-culture ture phenomenon menon named Ashley Love. It’ss easy as a Cosmo smo personality ality quiz! This his new comedy medy by local playwright ght Matt Henderson son is directed d by Todd Betker etker and comes complete omplete with original music. It opens tonight at Shadyside’s yside’s Maker Theater. Bill O’Driscoll Driscoll 8 p.m. Show continues through Feb. 21. 5940 Ellsworth Ave., Shadyside. $15-20. www.12peerstheater.org
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Mala Mala is an awardwinning LGBT documentary about Puerto Rico’s transgender community. The film, which screens at Pitt today, features diverse voices from business owners to sex workers and drag queens, and portrays a fight for personal and community
Sembène — The Film & Arts Festival celebrates Black History Month with eight affordable community screenings over four weekends. Some films, like tonight’s opener, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (from 2013, starring Idris Elba), at the Carnegie Library in Homewood, are well known. Also screening this weekend is Erroll Garner: No One Can Hear You Read, a new documentary about the pioneering, Pittsburgh-born jazz pianist (Feb. 7). And on Feb. 8, there’s Mapantsula (Hustler), a 1988 film that was the first anti-apartheid feature made by, for and about black South Africans and is sometimes called the South African The Harder They Come. BO Mandela: 6 p.m. (Homewood). Festival continues through Feb. 27 (various locations). Suggested donation per screening: $2. www.sembenefilmfestival.org
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acceptance. Mala Mala aims to bridge the gap between American and Latino LGBT culture. Following the screening will be a discussion with co-directors Dan Sickles and Antonio Santini. Zacchiaus McKee 4 p.m. Posvar Hall, Room 1500, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland.
“Not until I started to work for Andy And did I realize what re a pack rat he iis,” a former assistant a tto Andy Warhol, W Benjamin Liu, once said. Liu says one of his rresponsibilities was to w pack all 610 pa Warhol’s of W Capsules. An Time Ca collector of art, avid collect photographs, Fiestaware, ph dental molds newspapers, den and other minutiae, Warhol began filling time capsules in 1974. Chief Warhol archivist Matt Wrbican and Time Capsules cataloguer Erin Byrne join Liu to open and discuss one of these unique snapshots of history tonight. ZM 7 p.m. 117 Sandusky St., North Side. Free with Good Fridays