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Tracy Middendorf Looks Back on her LA Fountain Years

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 […]

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“In the Red and Brown Water”, Fountain Theatre The Fountain Theatre has been honored with 8 Ovation Award nominations, including the prestigious categories of Best Season and Best Production of a Play, it was announced last night at an event hosted by LA Stage Alliance. The Ovation season ran from September 2012 to August 2013 […]

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 […]

Troy Kotsur and Erinn Anova in “Cyrano” at the Fountain Theatre (2012). Just announced: The Fountain Theatre has earned 6 LA Drama Critics Circle Award nominations for its acclaimed 2012 productions of Cyrano and In the Red and Brown Water. In addition, the Fountain has also been honored by the LADCC with the Polly Warfield Award for […]

Next at the Fountain: The LA Premiere of a Boldly Original New Play “In the Red and Brown Water”

Oya can run faster than anyone—but not fast enough to escape her destiny. Shirley Jo Finney directs the long-awaited Los Angeles premiere of In the Red and Brown Water. Lyrically weaving together elements of urban contemporary realism with West African mysticism, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s lusciously theatrical and boldly original new play opens at The Fountain Theatre on October 20. How far will fast, beautiful […]

Another Emmett Till Moment in Newtown?

History repeats itself, for better and worse. And certain plays, like historical events, resurrect with new relevance in our hearts and minds at specific moments in time in our lives. “The Ballad of Emmett Till” (Fountain Theatre, 2011) In 2010 The Fountain Theatre produced the West Coast Premiere of The Ballad of Emmett Till. Emmett Till was […]

Fountain Theatre mourns the loss of long-time friend and acclaimed playwright, Athol Fugard

by Terri Roberts Director Stephen Sachs (left) with playwright Athol Fugard (center) and the cast of the Fountain’s 2012 production of The Blue Iris (L to R): Jacqueline Schultz, Julanne Chidi Hill, and Morlan Higgins On March 8th, celebrated South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director, Athol Fugard, who was also a long-time friend and […]

Human stories at the heart of Athol Fugard: ‘I go where my imagination wants me to go’

Athol Fugard at the Fountain Theatre “At the heart of it all is a face and a human story, never an idea. I only put words to paper if I have a story to tell,” says Athol Fugard as he reflects on 60 years as a writer and playwright. “Every play generates expectations and demands,” […]

Ed Krieger: The photographer who chronicled Los Angeles theater

Ed Krieger, 2006. by Stephen Sachs A life in the theatre is filled with photographs. We who act, direct, write, compose, design, produce or publicize theatre make use of countless of photographs, in a career and a lifetime. Production stills, headshots, publicity photos, prints for posters, snapshots for marketing brochures. We post JPEGS of ourselves […]

Fountain Theatre produces new play ‘Fatherland,’ true story of son who turned father in for Jan 6 attack on Capitol

A 19-year-old son faces the hardest day in his life when he testifies in federal court against his father after informing on him to the FBI. The Fountain Theatre presents the world premiere of Fatherland, a new work of verbatim theater conceived and directed by Fountain artistic director Stephen Sachs. Performances take place February 25 through March 30, with Pay-What-You-Want previews beginning February 22. […]

Intimate Excellent | the Fountain Theatre blog

by Terri Roberts/Photos by Cooper Bates Last Saturday, November 16, Fountain Theatre friends and family gathered in the Blossom Ballroom of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to honor retiring Founding Artistic Director Stephen Sachs for his 34 years of leadership and service to the Fountain and the Los Angeles theatre community at large. The occasion also […]

Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell Speaks Out to Oppose AEA’s Referendum on LA’s 99-Seat Theatres

Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell speaks to the press in Hollywood. In a strong show of local government support to LA’s intimate theatre community, Los Angeles City Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell spoke out yesterday to oppose the controversial referendum proposed by Actors Equity Association (AEA) that would significantly alter the 99 Seat Theatre Plan, which has helped intimate […]

Playwright John Biguenet on the Magic of Language in ‘Broomstick’

Jenny OHara in ‘Broomstick’ at the Fountain Theatre John Biguenet’s new play, Broomstick, opening at the Fountain Theatre this Saturday in its west coast premiere, features a witch who might be in the habit of cooking children or perhaps giving enemies “a little push or two” down a well to their death. Where does Biguenet’s […]

Fountain Actress Sandy Martin is “Dynamite” on new Fox TV Series

Sandy Martin in “A House Not Meant to Stand” Actress Sandy Martin blew audiences away with her performance as Bella in the recent Fountain production of Tennessee Williams’ A House Not Meant to Stand. StageandCinema hailed it as “a career-transforming performance”, exclaiming “Sandy Martin’s great performance does for Bella McCorkle what one imagines Laurette Taylor did […]

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