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* Jazz. The 22nd edition of the Playboy Jazz Festival, June 17 and 18, will feature headliners Dianne Reeves, Count Basie’s Orchestra, Boney James, Regina Carter, John Scofield and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, among others, at the Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave. $15 to $90. (323) 850-2000.

* Film. The second annual “Method Fest Independent Film Festival” (named for Lee Strasberg’s method acting theory) will feature 18 feature films and 15 shorts, accompanied by workshops, symposiums and a music festival June 16 through 23 at the Laemmle Playhouse 7, 673 East Colorado Blvd.; the Balcony Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Ave.; and other nearby venues in Pasadena. “Poor White Trash,” with Sean Young, William Devane and Jason London, will open the festival. Opening- and closing-night tickets, $35; centerpiece film, (June 18), $20; individual screenings, $5 to $7; seminars, $7; workshops, $10; weekend pass including all screenings and seminars, $80; full festival pass including all screenings and seminars, $125. (310) 535-9230 or https://www.methodfest.com.

* Theater. Legendary iconoclastic performance artist Rachel Rosenthal presents her last work as a solo artist, “Ur-Boor,” about a woman trapped in an orbiting space capsule with a talking computer. Opens June 16 at 8 p.m. at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, and plays Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. through June 24. $10. (213) 485-1681.

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* Dance. Two programs make up the “This Is Nureyev!” film festival June 16 and 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the Bing Theater at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. $5 (museum and AFI members, seniors and students) to $7. (877) 522-6225.

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