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Anniversary Time “Out in Front,” a weekend of theater, comedy, music, poetry and dance celebrating the Mark Taper Forum’s 25th season, will take place on the Taper’s stage Oct. 1-4. American Indian musician John Trudell and his Graffiti Man band and the Latino comedy troupe Culture Clash will perform each evening. Among the other performers will be Shishir Kurup, Rose Portillo, Victoria Ann-Lewis and Alan Toy, the Kitchen Cultural Choir, the Hittite Empire, Lula Washington’s Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Theatre, Amy Hill and Roger Guenveur Smith.