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8 pm: Theater

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Susan Miller, a breast cancer survivor, performs “My Left Breast,” her solo, seriocomic odyssey exploring being gay, the trials and joys of motherhood and overcoming cancer. The award-winning play counts among its honors an Obie and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, given to American and British women playwrights for best play.

* My Left Breast,” Celebration Theatre, 7051-B Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 and 7 p.m. through March 1. $20. (213) 660-8587.

all day: Art

“Treasures of Korea: Contemporary Korean Clay, Metal and Fiber Art” is an overview of contemporary Korean crafts opening Friday. Participating artists--12 Korean and three Korean American--are representative of the three major art centers in Korea: Seoul National University, Hong-ik University and Ewha Women’s University, as well as American universities. On Saturday, ceramic artist Yoonchung Park Kim will present a slide lecture on the exhibit, followed by a workshop in clay, metal and fiber art.

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* “Treasures of Korea: Contemporary Korean Clay, Metal and Fiber Art,” Korean Cultural Center, 5505 Wilshire Blvd. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Ends Feb. 26. Free. Lecture, Saturday, 10 a.m.-noon, with workshop to follow. Free. (213) 936-7141.

7:30 pm: Movies

“Luis Bun~uel in Mexico,” a selection of the 20 films of the iconoclastic Spanish master made there in the 1950s, will be shown over three weekends this month in LACMA’s Bing Theater. The series starts Friday at 7:30 p.m. with “Los Olvidados” (1950), Bun~uel’s timeless masterpiece in its depiction of juvenile delinquency, and “Illusion Travels by Streetcar” (1953), in which two conductors, learning their streetcar is about to be junked, go on an unscheduled tour of Mexico City neighborhoods.

* “Luis Bun~uel in Mexico,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd. Feb. 6 to 21, weekends only. $4 and $6. (213) 857-6010.

7:30 pm: Music

Double your pleasure: Donna Parker and Jonas Nordwall, two organists from Portland, Ore., offer an evening of mixed-repertory music at the Crystal Cathedral, performing on an Aeolian-Skinner organ. A sit-down dinner in an adjacent arboretum precedes the music.

* Organists Donna Parker and Jonas Nordwall, Crystal Cathedral, 12141 Lewis St., Garden Grove. $15. (714) 544-5679. For dinner reservations, call (714) 544-5679.

8 pm: Dance

After a recent premiere of what The Times called “a potent, near-flawless blend of humor and pathos,” Laura Gorenstein’s “Angel’s Domain” comes to Occidental College, performed by her locally based, all-female Helios Dance Theater. A CalArts graduate, who created the dances for Stevie Wonder’s music video “Treat Myself,” Gorenstein founded Helios five years ago to examine women’s issues--especially, she says, “ways in which I and other women shape our identities and interactions in the face of male precedence.”

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* Helios Dance Theater, Keck Theater, Occidental College, 1600 Campus Road, Eagle Rock. Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m. $10 (students, seniors) to $20. (213) 259-2922.

8 pm: Theater

The 1992 award-winning “Melody Jones (A Striptease in Two Acts)” is back in town, playing an eight-week run at Theatre/Theater. Written by Dan Gerrity and Jeremy Lawrence from David Galloway’s novel, the play is about the strippers, employees and patrons of a ‘70s strip joint, where souls as well as flesh are bared.

* “Melody Jones (A Striptease in Two Acts),” Theatre/Theater, 1713 Cahuenga Blvd., Fridays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7 p.m. Ends March 29. $20-$25. (888) 566-8499, (818) 789-8499.

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FREEBIE: Pianist Horace Tapscott and bassist Art Davis at the L.A. County Museum of Art, 5:30 p.m. (213) 857-6000.

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