By Terri Roberts Election Day has come and gone. As of this writing, millions of ballots are still being counted. The process may be slow and frustrating, but taking the time to make sure every voice, every vote, is heard and counted is American democracy in action. It’s why the Fountain Theatre launched its get-out-the-vote […]
by Victoria Montecillo On June 29, I, along with 131 other LA County Arts Commission interns, attended an arts summit held in Pasadena. Having never before attended a professional-type conference before, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. It seemed like a great opportunity to meet other people in the intern program at different organizations, […]
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 […]
by Stephen Sachs This is the story of a table saw. A steel-framed Sears Craftsman table saw manufactured when things were built to last. My father bought the saw more than fifty years ago, when he was forty-three, to cut lumber at the new home he had just bought in Westlake Village for his young […]
“In the Red and Brown Water” (Fountain Theatre) by Lyn Gardner I love nothing more than a theatre full of people leaning forward in their seats so they don’t miss a word. And the roar of a crowd enjoying themselves can be immensely seductive. But being one of the first people into an empty auditorium […]
By Terri Roberts Election Day has come and gone. As of this writing, millions of ballots are still being counted. The process may be slow and frustrating, but taking the time to make sure every voice, every vote, is heard and counted is American democracy in action. It’s why the Fountain Theatre launched its get-out-the-vote […]
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, […]
Heather Wolf at the casting table for ‘I And You’ at the Fountain Theatre. by Heather Wolf Ready? Show of hands: How many actors have ever wished to be the proverbial fly on the wall at an audition? Well, volunteering to be an audition reader may just contribute to that most integral tool in an actor’s […]
by Stephen Sachs I understand it now. I get it. Why Provincetown has lured playwrights and painters for decades. Some artists anchor here and never leave. Others flock in seasonally, migrating like birds and humpback whales, lingering for a period of nourishment before moving on. For painters like Edward Hopper it was the light. The […]
2018 intern Saif Saigol (center) with Fountain staff. Know a college student looking for a paying job this summer? A young person who likes theatre and enjoys working in a crazy, eccentric theatrical environment? Search no further. The Fountain is the place. The Fountain Theatre is now accepting applications to hire one Development Intern for 10 weeks […]
Brenda Marsh The Fountain Theatre is delighted to welcome Brenda L. Marsh, C.P.A., C.F.E., as a new member to our Board of Directors. Brenda is an accountant and partner with the Los Angeles accounting firm Goren, Marcus, Masino & Marsh. She joined the firm in 1993, and became a partner January 2003. Brenda has a Bachelor […]
Students can now see a Friday night play free at the Fountain. When Artistic Director Stephen Sachs shared his thoughts on the Fountain Theatre blog last Friday, he never dreamed his post would go viral. It did, big time. His observations on the free performance of Broadway’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” at Madison Square Garden […]
By Terri Roberts I have a ritual I perform every night, no matter what. I write out a list of the things I am grateful for that day and text it to a dear friend. He, in turn, sends me his nightly Gratitude List as well. We have been doing this, without fail, for almost […]
Stephen Sachs Fountain Co-Artistic Director Stephen Sachs will travel to China this week to direct the docudrama, TOP SECRET: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers for LA Theatre Works. The play, written by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons, dramatizes the Freedom of the Press confrontation in 1971 between the Washington Post and the Nixon administration […]