The Fountain Theatre has been awarded a grant in the amount of $42,300 through the LA County COVID-19 Arts Relief Fund administered by the LA County Department of Arts and Culture. The purpose of this funding is to provide economic relief to arts nonprofits suffering from business interruptions due to COVID-19-related closures from March 1 – December 30, […]
Kristin Carey, Joanna Strapp in ‘Reborning’. by Mindy Farabee Sometimes art imitates life and sometimes life imitates art. And somewhere in between, sometimes things get curious. Hollywood’s Fountain Theatre recently opened a play dealing with parenthood, the mystery of creation and the scars of loss. What it’s literally about is reborning, a thriving subculture in […]
Diarra Kilpatrick I was born and raised in Detroit, MI. My mom was always really dedicated to nurturing the artist in me as I was growing up. She put me in every arts or literature program she could find and I thrived in them, so there was no way I was gonna grow up […]
“In the Red and Brown Water” (Fountain Theatre, 2012) The Los Angeles Times has honored the The Fountain Theatre’s critically acclaimed Los Angeles premiere of In the Red and Brown Water by selecting it to its year-end list of Best Theatre in 2012. LA Times Theater Critic Charles McNulty, who hailed the production as “sensational” in his […]
This is not a real baby. In the Fountain Theatre’s upcoming LA Premiere of Reborning by Zayd Dohrn, Kelly is a young artist who creates reborn babies. What is a reborn baby? What is reborning? A reborn doll is a manufactured vinyl doll that has been transformed to resemble a human baby with as much […]
Fountain Co-Artistic Director and Writer/Director Stephen Sachs is in Cape Cod for the opening of his new play, Bakersfield Mist, at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre. by Stephen Sachs Monday, August 8 Wellfleet Harbor sits nestled on the edge of Cape Cod just a few hamlets over from Provincetown. A tiny beachfront resort village famous for […]
Diarra Kilpatrick I was born and raised in Detroit, MI. My mom was always really dedicated to nurturing the artist in me as I was growing up. She put me in every arts or literature program she could find and I thrived in them, so there was no way I was gonna grow up […]
Technical rehearsals are a slow, painstaking process. When all of the technical and design elements — light cues, sound cues, sets, props, costumes — are layered in and integrated with the timing of the actors. Whenever I work at other theatres around the country I’m always curious to witness how other companies run a tech. […]
The Fountain Theatre announced last week that a guilty verdict has been reached in the trial of the man accused of murdering longtime Fountain director/producer Ben Bradley. The defendant was found guilty of second-degree felony murder on November 23 in the Los Angeles Superior Court Criminal Courts Building in downtown Los Angeles, following a three-week […]
Joanna Strapp in ‘Reborning’ The Fountain Theatre’s Los Angeles Premiere of Reborning by Zayd Dohrn opened last weekend to powerful reactions from audiences and critics. Reviews are starting to trickle in and already the production has been hailed by LA Splash as “another hit for the Fountain Theatre” with “fabulous acting.” Reborning is a funny […]
Fountain Co-Artistic Director and Writer/Director Stephen Sachs is in Cape Cod for the opening of his new play, Bakersfield Mist, at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre. by Stephen Sachs Monday, August 8 Wellfleet Harbor sits nestled on the edge of Cape Cod just a few hamlets over from Provincetown. A tiny beachfront resort village famous for […]
Another unforgettable afternoon at the Fountain Theatre. Thirty students from Ramona Elementary School around the corner on Mariposa Street walked over to the Fountain Theatre Friday morning for a special visit that included a lesson on Native American storytelling and the making their own colorful animal masks. Teacher Eric Arboleda’s 3rd grade class have been […]
The cast of REBORNING with playwright Zayd Dohrn. Chicago playwright Zayd Dohrn was at the Fountain Theatre last night to catch a performance of our LA Premiere of his riveting play, Reborning. He enjoyed the production very much and met with the cast and production team upstairs in our cafe after the performance. Born and […]
Another unforgettable afternoon at the Fountain Theatre. Thirty students from Ramona Elementary School around the corner on Mariposa Street walked over to the Fountain Theatre Friday morning for a special visit that included a lesson on Native American storytelling and the making their own colorful animal masks. Teacher Eric Arboleda’s 3rd grade class have been […]