2022 was filled with acclaimed productions of plays, jazz concerts, and arts education programs. Take a look! Posted in Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles, Theater, theatre Tagged 2022, actors, Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles, performing arts, plays, theater, theatre, year by Stephen Sachs Lois Tandy may have been in her nineties, but she could be shrewd and […]
Chef Baltazar Gaytan If you’ve visited our Fountain Café in the last three months, you’ve already noticed the number of changes occurring. With its cheese and delicious snicker doodles topped with black Himalayan salt, its savory pastries, improved wines, finer coffee, its warm and inviting atmosphere, the Café is becoming the place to visit before […]
by Todd London Todd London I’m reading Dave Eggers’ new novel, The Circle. It takes place inside a Google-like company by the same name. As the book begins, the Circle’s latest hire, Mae, tours the sparkling, communitarian campus, “400 acres of brushed steel and glass.” “It’s heaven,” she thinks. The walkway wound around lemon and orange trees […]
Tracy Middendorf and Morlan Higgins in “After the Fall” at the Fountain Theatre (2002, photo by Ed Krieger); Tommy Schrider and Tracy in “Battle of Black and Dogs” at Yale Repertory Theatre (2010) by Mark Kinsey Stephenson Tracy Middendorf was hailed for her “delicious mixture of beauty and raw emotional vulnerability that makes you care […]
The Fountain Theatre has been awarded a grant in the amount of $42,300 through the LA County COVID-19 Arts Relief Fund administered by the LA County Department of Arts and Culture. The purpose of this funding is to provide economic relief to arts nonprofits suffering from business interruptions due to COVID-19-related closures from March 1 – December 30, […]
by Todd London Todd London I’m reading Dave Eggers’ new novel, The Circle. It takes place inside a Google-like company by the same name. As the book begins, the Circle’s latest hire, Mae, tours the sparkling, communitarian campus, “400 acres of brushed steel and glass.” “It’s heaven,” she thinks. The walkway wound around lemon and orange trees […]
Clifton Campbell and his wife Kim at the 2017 Academy Awards. “The feeling I get sitting in a theatre just before the houselights fade is one that is very personal for me,” admits TV producer and writer Clifton Campbell. “Excitement for what’s about to unfold. The anticipation of bold ideas told through flawed and deeply […]
The Fountain Theatre is pleased to announce that esteemed financial adviser Miles Benickes has joined its Board of Directors. Miles Benickes is Managing Director for Municipal Trading and Executive Vice President for Hilltop Securities Inc. “Going to the theatre has always been a part of my life since growing up in New York in the […]
by Terri Roberts …and we couldn’t be more excited! Recently, we shared video with you of our cleared-out parking lot getting re-paved. With that job completed, we were ready for the big, exciting deliveries: the trussing and the stage. Trussing is the aluminum support structure around the perimeter of the stage from which lighting and […]
by Stephen Sachs In theatre and baseball, nothing beats watching a well-made play. Right now, the Dodgers are the hottest team in baseball. Burning up the National League West, nearly 10 games ahead in first place and streaking toward the playoffs with only 30 games left to play. They’ve achieved an astounding turnaround since the […]
Maya Lynne Robinson and Karen Malina White, Runaway Home, 2017. The Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Branch this week announced its nominees for the 28th Annual NAACP Theatre Awards. The nominating committee is one year behind in its honoring process, only now selecting theatre productions opening January 2017 through December 2017. The Fountain Theatre’s acclaimed 2017 Los Angeles […]
Tim Cummings and Bill Brochtrup in “The Normal Heart” by Dale Reynolds The HIV/AIDS crisis has slipped from the consciousness of the American public in the last decade or so, as fewer and fewer white folk die from it (or are newly infected) and as GLBT acceptance has become more mainstream. But back in the […]
Tim Cummings, Bill Brochtrup, “The Normal Heart”, Fountain Theatre, 2013. by Tim Cummings “Hello, you don’t know me. I hope you get this message. Sometimes, when you try to send a message to someone you’re not ‘friends’ with on Facebook, it gets blocked, or you have to ‘approve’ it. I hope you’ll approve this message […]
The Hannah company gathers for a party photo. A packed house of passionate theatregoers, donors and guests, friends and family, and the invited press enjoyed Saturday night’s Opening performance of our California Premiere of Hannah and the Dread Gazebo by Jiehae Park. A collaboration between the Fountain Theatre and East West Players, the audience reflected […]