He has strolled down many red carpets in his celebrated career. At the Writers Guild Awards, the Tony Awards, the Emmy Awards, the Venice Film Festival, and the Oscars. He wrote the screenplay for Hacksaw Ridge, nominated Best Picture for this year’s Academy Awards. The world will be watching the Oscar ceremony this Sunday, and […]
‘Cyrano’ at New York Theatre Workshop The Fountain Theatre and Deaf West Theatre brought their lyrical and romantic deaf/hearing updated-version of Cyrano to New York last Monday, April 29, for a special staged reading at the acclaimed New York Theatre Workshop. The staged reading was performed for a full house of NY theater producers and invited […]
‘Citizen: An American Lyric’ at the Fountain Theatre The Fountain Theatre’s acclaimed and award-winning world stage premiere of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine, adapted for the stage by Stephen Sachs, has been chosen by Center Theatre Group for the inaugural Block Party: Celebrating Los Angeles Theatre at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Directed by Shirley […]
They came. They listened. They watched. They partied. A packed house of young playwrights, colleagues and friends filled the Fountain last night for the final round of our Rapid Development Series (‘Rap Dev’) play reading series. Part new play development program, part social event, Rap Dev offers playwrights thirty years old and younger the opportunity […]
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John Patrick Shanley Award-winning playwright and screenwriter John Patrick Shanley gave a commencement speech to students at College of Mount Saint Vincent in New York. In the speech, he described how seeing the play Cyrano de Bergerac changed his life and transformed how he viewed his own self-image: “I saw a play called Cyrano de Bergerac. The main […]
While I have lived in Los Angeles for years, I did not discover the Fountain Theatre until my son, Daniel*, performed in this theatre. Friends and associates from the UCLA Faculty Women’s Club and the SORO Neighborhoods Council joined me and we have been coming back ever since. The exceptional quality of the productions make […]
by Deborah Lawlor Cristina Hall I am thrilled with the very special Forever Flamenco coming up this Sunday, July 24 at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre. This show features a singer, Jose Cortes, and a dancer, Cristina Hall, who are both new to Forever Flamenco and to LA audiences. Cristina, a native of San Francisco has been […]
by Stephen Sachs Lois Tandy may have been in her nineties, but she could be shrewd and mischievous. In the many years I knew her, and Lois was a Fountain friend and supporter for over a decade, every encounter was a delightful mix of droll repartee and honest affection. We enjoyed each other’s company. […]
Award-winning author and music educator Eric Booth (Julliard, Stanford, the Kennedy Center) shares his distinction between art and entertainment. For Booth, entertainment confirms what we already know. It affirms our sense of the world. We laugh or cry or are thrilled by entertainment that mirrors back life as we know it and says to us, […]
Hannah and the Dread Gazebo by Jiehae Park, opening at the Fountain Theatre on August 17th in its Southern California Premiere, has been named a finalist for the Francesca Primus Prize, sponsored by the American Theatre Critics Association and the Francesca Ronnie Primus Foundation. The award, presented annually since 1997, recognizes the best work by […]
Actors Gilbert Glenn Brown and Matthew Hancock. Our thrilling Los Angeles Premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney‘s The Brothers Size is now officially launched with rehearsals underway. The first table reading of this beautifully powerful play took place last week at the Fountain and everyone in the company — actors, designers and production team members — were […]
George Saunders by Colin Dabkowski In a profile that ran a week ago in the New York Times Magazine, Syracuse-based author George Saunders devised a little thought exercise to describe his ideal audience. Saunders conjured 10 imaginary readers, and assumed for the sake of argument that three or four of them were already hooked on […]
The Fountain Theatre is pleased to welcome veteran theater producer and public relations consultant Diana Buckhantz to its Board of Directors. Diana Buckhantz recently produced the critically acclaimed new musical Songbird in New York City which is about to have a second production at Two Rivers Theatre this June before an eventual return to New […]