Darius R. Booker, Morgan Camper, and Derek Jackson in “Gunshot Medley” by Dionna Michelle Daniel “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.” This sentence has stuck with me since the first time I read Claudia Rankine’s book, Citizen: An American Lyric. That sentence has been a jumping-off point and inspiration […]
Deanne Bray and Troy Kotsur The Fountain Theatre is very pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant from the David Lee Foundation in the amount of $32,000 to support and enhance the budget of the world premiere of its new deaf/hearing production, Arrival & Departure, which will combine American Sign Language and Spoken […]
A fabulous performance, an exuberant standing ovation, and a lively party afterward highlighted the opening night of our remounting of the hit comedy/drama, Bakersfield Mist. The relaunch Saturday night was enjoyed by a full house of happy patrons, Fountain Friends and Family, and exclusively invited VIP Donors. Written and directed by Stephen Sachs and performed […]
The Fountain Theatre has gobbled up 26 Theater Awards from Stage SceneLA for our acclaimed 2013-14 productions of The Normal Heart, My Name is Asher Lev and The Brothers Size. StageSceneLA editor Steven Stanley announced the winners this week after seeing and reviewing 268 productions from September 1, 2013 through August 31, 2014. The overall […]
A lively discussion on religion, family and art. A happy group of Fountain Theatre supporters enjoyed a lovely evening of food, drinks and lively conversation last night at the beautiful Westwood home of Dorothy and Stanley Wolpert. The exclusive Fountain Insider Event also included the cast and director of our current hit production of My […]
Jason Karasev, Anna Khaja and Joel Polis in ‘My Name Is Asher Lev’ at the Fountain Theatre (2014). by Jonathan Mandell “Art and religion share the psychological state of transportation—being transported. We all love being taken out of ourselves, temporarily.” – Jonathan Haidt, NYU professor, author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics […]
by Terri Roberts On August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was abducted from the home of his great uncle, Mose “Preacher” Wright, in the still-dark hours of a Mississippi morning. The two abductors were white; one of them carried a flashlight and a gun. Together, they forced the black teenager into the back of a […]
The cast from “Cyrano” take a bow after performing a scene at “Signin’ in the Street” at Downtown Disney, March 18. Cyrano April 28 – June 10 (323) 663-1525 More Info Get Tickets This entry was posted in actors, Arts, Deaf, Fountain Theatre, performing arts, plays, playwright, theatre and tagged American Sign Language, ASL, Cyrano, […]
Tracy Middendorf and Morlan Higgins in “After the Fall” at the Fountain Theatre (2002, photo by Ed Krieger); Tommy Schrider and Tracy in “Battle of Black and Dogs” at Yale Repertory Theatre (2010) by Mark Kinsey Stephenson Tracy Middendorf was hailed for her “delicious mixture of beauty and raw emotional vulnerability that makes you care […]
The Pride flag flies over the Fountain Theatre. by Stephen Sachs Some days, our building is tagged by graffiti. That’s life in East Hollywood. Some mornings, I arrive at the Fountain front door and discover a freshly sprayed scribbling on our beige stucco facade. It happens. The scrawling is usually small and, most often, gang […]
An aspiring actress on the Fountain Theatre stage. By Lisa Phillips There are many things I don’t know about life and how the world works, but there are two things I know for certain. The first is that many young people are less prepared for the working world than they were 20 years ago. The […]
Polly Carl by Polly Carl Something profound happened on the first Tuesday in November, something I’m still trying to digest fully. To my mind the election results represent a victory of love over hate, of human dignity over market forces, of public service over private gain. Those who spewed hate toward women weren’t reelected. Those […]
“Self-Portrait With Cut Ear”, by Vincent Van Gogh by Al Kennedy Suffering. Now there’s an artistic word. Or so you’d think. I have been doing my best to avoid suffering. I have been trying to write for at least a quarter of a century, and I can say very firmly that in my experience, suffering […]
‘Citizen: An American Lyric’ at the Fountain Theatre by Josh Gershick Citizen: An American Lyric, the play, takes its title and text from a book of prose poetry by Claudia Rankine, finalist for 2014 National Book Award in Poetry and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, among other plaudits. Writing in […]