by Stephen Sachs The outside world goes away whenever I work on a play. More so, when I’m out-of-town. And when the town happens to be a soothing and idyllic seaside village like this, the dream work of play-making dissolves into the dream world around me and the outside world recedes from consciousness like a […]
Host Dayna Devon (“L.A. Unscripted“) profiles the Fountain Theatre and its exciting plans for an Outdoor Stage this summer as a game-changing response to COVID-19. Posted in Los Angeles, Theater, theatre Tagged COVID-19, Dayna Devon, Fountain Theatre, KTLA, L.A. Unscripted, Outdoor Stage, pandemic, performing arts, Stephen Sachs, theater, theatre
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 […]
(back row) Simon Levy, Stephen Sachs, Scott Tuomey, (front row) Deborah Lawlor, James Bennett, Barbara Goodhill. What’s up at the Fountain? FountainTheatre.com This entry was posted in Arts, arts organizations, Drama, Fountain Theatre, Theater, theatre and tagged arts organizations, Barbara Goodhill, Deborah Lawlor, Fountain Theatre, Happy Holidays, James Bennett, Los Angeles, performing arts, Scott Tuomey, Simon […]
Writer Larry Powell. By Terri Roberts It was just last month that the Fountain Theatre announced it had joined forces with playwright Larry Powell, his producing partner Angelica Robinson, and their Tell Me a Story Productions to bring Powell’s exciting 12-part tragicomedy, The Gaze…No Homo to Fountain audiences. Presented via the theatre’s new digital platform, […]
Ejike and Victoria Ndefo, Stephen Sachs, Opening Night ‘Citizen: An American Lyric’ The Fountain Theatre is pleased to welcome retired Aerospace Engineer Ejike Ndefo to its Board of Directors. Ejike and his wife, Victoria, are avid theatre lovers, and have been part of The Fountain Family for more than fifteen years. “Victoria and I have been […]
Stephen O’Mahoney, Tim Cummings Dear Fountain Theatre, I was going to write a hardcopy letter but decided to use this route instead. Please, if you think it appropriate, pass my comments along to all of the cast members. As you know, I was in the audience last Friday. Somehow or other I had missed seeing […]
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 […]
The final bow for ‘On the Spectrum’ at the Fountain Theatre. The final bow for our acclaimed West Coast Premiere of On the Spectrum finally came last Sunday, April 28th, ending a wonderful run of rave reviews and enchanted audiences. Critics and theatergoers were swept away by the heartfelt vulnerability of the script by Ken […]
Gilbert Glenn Brown, Matthew Hancock and Theodore Perkins by Gabby Lamm Before this past Saturday, I had seen neither a Fountain Theatre production nor a Tarell Alvin McCraney play. I had no idea what to expect from The Brothers Size; I didn’t know the plot, the context, or the actors. I was blown away. If […]
Director Guillermo Cienfuegos in the Fountain Cafe. by Guillermo Cienfuegos How the Los Angeles premiere of Between Riverside and Crazy, this great, Pulitzer Prize winning play by Stephen Adly Guirgis managed to fall into my hands, I’ll never know. But I’m grateful for it. I feel so fortunate to be given the opportunity. And to […]
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By Jona Yadidi During these challenging times, it is more important than ever to connect. In this new series of blog articles, Community Chats, we will talk with different community partners about issues of community and gathering together in a virtual world. To start, the Fountain’s own Community Engagement Director, France-Luce Benson, talks about the […]
by Sylvie Drake When Stephen Sachs was a student at Agoura High, he won a national high school writing award and was offered several writing scholarships. He turned them all down. Why? “I wanted to be an actor,” he answered a bit sheepishly. He became one in the 1980s, but it’s the old story. As […]