October 2023

The play Bakersfield Mist  gets its title from a famous painting by Jackson Pollock called Lavender Mist, now hanging in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. “It is impossible to make a forgery of Jackson Pollock’s work,” Time magazine critic Robert Hughes claimed in 1982. It is a telling comment that gets to the heart […]

The Fountain Theatre will open its 2017-18 season of new plays with an urgent warning against the proposed policies of the Trump administration, followed by statements on social justice, inclusion, acceptance of “the other,” prejudice, the role of government and the need for human connection. “The Fountain has always been committed to speaking out for […]