Runaway Home at The Fountain Theatre

Three years after Hurricane Katrina, the unhealed wounds of New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward continue to fester. In this powerful, funny and deeply moving mother-daughter story, 14-year-old runaway Kali (Camille Spirlin of ABC’s American Koko, Fox TV’s Rosewood and Nickelodeon’s Marvin Marvin) embarks on a journey to pick through the wreckage of what used to be her life, rhyming, stealing and scamming her way through the still-destroyed neighborhood. While the rest of the country's attention drifts, the community's residents are left to repair the damage from the inside out. As their attempts at renewal leave a path of destruction in their wake, Kali bears witness to what the floodwaters left behind. Sept 16 – Nov. 5: Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m. & Mondays at 8 p.m.; $5-$35; Fountain Theatre, 5060 Fountain Ave. (at Normandie), Los Angeles, CA 90029; (323) 663-1525; www.FountainTheatre.com.