Jaja's African Hair Braiding Tickets

Name: Jaja's African Hair Braiding
Start: 2025-10-01
End: 2025-11-09
Location: Center Theatre Group at the Mark Taper Forum

Where hair is styled and lives are untangled.

Three women stand and gesture animatedly inside a colorful African hair braiding salon, with bright decor, salon chairs, and hair products visible throughout the space.

Two women are in a brightly decorated salon; one stands smiling while braiding the other's hair, who sits in a salon chair and looks up, smiling. Photos and products fill the colorful background.

A group of women in colorful dresses celebrate joyfully inside a vibrant hair salon decorated with hair product posters and salon equipment.

About Jaja's African Hair Braiding

Step into the vibrant world of Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, a beloved Harlem hotspot where West African immigrant braiders work their magic on the locals’ locks. Amidst the lively buzz of a scorching summer, love ignites, dreams soar, and secrets unravel. But beneath the surface of this riotous comedy lies a current of uncertainty, pushing this close-knit community to confront the challenges of being outsiders in their own neighborhood.

From the pen of Tony Award-nominated Ghanaian American playwright Jocelyn Bioh (School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, Kirk Douglas Theatre) and directed by Tony Award nominee and Obie Award winner Whitney White, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding is “a play that is equally affecting as it is hilarious,” hails Entertainment Weekly.