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Last Chance: Ends This Weekend

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* Theater. August Wilson’s “Jitney,” focused on the owner of an unlicensed Philadelphia cab company who is facing the city’s plan to shut him down--as well as the return of his estranged son, receives its final performance Sunday at the Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown Los Angeles. Today and Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2:30 and 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. $29 to $42. (213) 628-9772.

* Music. The Los Angeles Bach Festival will end Sunday with the Los Angeles Bach Festival Chorus, Orchestra and soloists performing Bach’s “Passion According to St. Matthew,” 3 p.m. at First Congregational Church, 540 S. Commonwealth Ave., Los Angeles. $20 to $25. (213) 385-1345.

* Jazz. Drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts, an associate of both Wynton and Branford Marsalis, demonstrates his own skills as a composer and bandleader on the new Columbia CD “Citizen Tain.” His group closes a six-day run Sunday, 7 and 8:30 p.m. at the Jazz Bakery, 3233 Helms Ave., Culver City. $20. (310) 271-9309.

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* Museums. “El Alma del Pueblo: Spanish Folk Art and Its Transformation in the Americas,” the first major exhibition to explore the folk art of Spain and its impact on Latin America and the United States, closes Sunday at the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, 5814 Wilshire Blvd. Today-Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Adults, $3.50; students and seniors, $2.50; children under 12, free. (323) 937-4230.

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