Mid-life journeys in “Heart Song” at the Fountain Theatre by Rachel Ditor I have read countless coming-of-age stories. As a teenager and young adult many of those stories were lifesavers. I still struggled but I didn’t feel alone anymore. I’m discovering now a subset of this genre, the coming-of-middle age story. I don’t feel I […]
Actors Chip Bent and Maleni Chaitoo, two cast members from our smash hit production of Cyrano, got together on their own time and created this ASL Music Video, “Sexy and I Know It”. Check it out! This entry was posted in actors, Arts, Deaf, Fountain Theatre, new plays, performing arts, plays, theatre and tagged “Sexy […]
by Saif Saigol It’s the end of August – the time of year that’s defined by back-to-school sales, the switch from iced coffee to hot coffee, and that one last outing with white pants before Labor Day comes and goes. For me, this week signifies the end of my internship with The Fountain and my […]
This portrait of Ben Bradley has just been painted by artist and Fountain Family member Diane Levin. “I had the pleasure of meeting Ben twice and of discovering his beautiful soul,” says Diane. Ben Bradley was our longtime and beloved Fountain Theatre producer and director. He was murdered in 2010. Says Diane: “The painting is meant […]
Aria Alpert and Daniel Billet in “Photograph 51” in the West Coast premiere at the Fountain Photograph 51, seen in its West Coast premiere in 2009 at the Fountain Theatre, is now being made into a movie produced by Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) and actress Rachel Weisz. Playwright Anna Ziegler is writing the screenplay. The […]
by Catherine Trieschmann The rhythm of my life as a writer has been fairly consistent the past five years. I usually incubate with a new project for a season, which means staying home and writing in between childrearing, housekeeping and wandering the grocery aisles with a make-up bag full of coupons in the middle of the […]
The Fountain Theatre is dedicated to producing new plays that reflect the cultural diversity of Los Angeles and the the nation. To serve Latino/a audiences, we launched our 2012-13 season earlier this year with the West Coast Premiere of El Nogalar by Latina playwright Tanya Saracho. “El Nogalar” (2012, Fountain Theatre) Playwright Anne Garcia-Romero reports […]
This portrait of Ben Bradley has just been painted by artist and Fountain Family member Diane Levin. “I had the pleasure of meeting Ben twice and of discovering his beautiful soul,” says Diane. Ben Bradley was our longtime and beloved Fountain Theatre producer and director. He was murdered in 2010. Says Diane: “The painting is meant […]
Aria Alpert and Daniel Billet in “Photograph 51” in the West Coast premiere at the Fountain Photograph 51, seen in its West Coast premiere in 2009 at the Fountain Theatre, is now being made into a movie produced by Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) and actress Rachel Weisz. Playwright Anna Ziegler is writing the screenplay. The […]
by Stephanie Jones If Anton Chekhov were Latino, playwright Tanya Saracho would have him covered. El Nogalar, her Mexico-set spin on the Russian classic The Cherry Orchard, comes to the Fountain Theatre by way of Chicago. Saracho wrote the play in 2004 while performing as an actor in Luis Alfaro’s Electricidad, at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. The […]
This portrait of Ben Bradley has just been painted by artist and Fountain Family member Diane Levin. “I had the pleasure of meeting Ben twice and of discovering his beautiful soul,” says Diane. Ben Bradley was our longtime and beloved Fountain Theatre producer and director. He was murdered in 2010. Says Diane: “The painting is meant […]
This portrait of Ben Bradley has just been painted by artist and Fountain Family member Diane Levin. “I had the pleasure of meeting Ben twice and of discovering his beautiful soul,” says Diane. Ben Bradley was our longtime and beloved Fountain Theatre producer and director. He was murdered in 2010. Says Diane: “The painting is meant […]
by Catherine Trieschmann The rhythm of my life as a writer has been fairly consistent the past five years. I usually incubate with a new project for a season, which means staying home and writing in between childrearing, housekeeping and wandering the grocery aisles with a make-up bag full of coupons in the middle of the […]
by Saif Saigol It’s the end of August – the time of year that’s defined by back-to-school sales, the switch from iced coffee to hot coffee, and that one last outing with white pants before Labor Day comes and goes. For me, this week signifies the end of my internship with The Fountain and my […]