Looking for a part-time job? Be part of the Fountain Family? The award-winning Fountain Theatre is seeking to immediately hire a Box Office manager to operate the ticket window on performance dates. Must be good with people and have basic math/computer skills. Duties include ticketing, handling cash + credit card sales, interacting with patrons, submitting […]
Continuing its 12-year relationship with Athol Fugard, The Fountain Theatre celebrates the master playwright’s 80th birthday with theU.S. premiere of his newest play. Directed by Stephen Sachs and starring Morlan Higgins, Julanne Chidi Hill and Jacqueline Schultz, The Blue Iris opens at the Fountain on August 24, with low-priced previews beginning August 18. Described by Time magazine as “the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world,” Athol Fugard celebrated his […]
Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, Fountain Theatre, 2023. by Stephen Sachs “Isn’t that the theatre where they did Last Summer at Bluefish Cove?” It was 1990, and I heard that a lot. My business partner, Deborah Lawlor, and I had just acquired the Fountain Theatre in East Hollywood. We had only an empty building and […]
Lowes Moore Hi, I’m Lowes Moore III. I am currently the Development Intern at the Fountain Theatre. I am a rising junior at Occidental College in Los Angeles. I major in Economics, with an emphasis in business, and my minor is in Music, with an emphasis in vocal performance. I developed a passion for the […]
Troy Kotsur and Erinn Anova (photo by Ed Krieger) by Philip Brandes Texting and email may have replaced quill and ink in “Cyrano” — Stephen Sachs’ contemporary re-envisioning of Edmond Rostand‘s classic drama — but the problematic nature of communication remains a constant. If anything, the theme gains new dimension and impact through the collision […]
Three friends embark on a joyous journey of sisterhood, discovering their inner ‘duende’ through a flamenco class for middle-aged women. Heart Song, the newest comedy/drama from Stephen Sachs (Bakersfield Mist, Cyrano), opens at The Fountain Theatre on May 25 with Shirley Jo Finney (In the Red and Brown Water) directing and choreography by internationally renowned […]
Terrylene and Freda Norman. Sweet Nothing in my Ear, Fountain Theatre, 1997. By Stephen Sachs Whatever happened to empathy in this country? A candidate for President mocks a person with physical disabilities on national television — and still gets elected. Undocumented children are pulled from their parents and locked into cages. Hateful tweets fly between […]
Hello Fountain Family! My name is Annie Barker and I will be the Production Intern at the Fountain Theatre this summer. I’m an incoming senior at Loyola Marymount University, studying Theatre Arts and English because I thrive under the looming cloud that is inevitable unemployment. Outside of the theatre, I love going to Disneyland, volunteering […]
The CITIZEN company Friday night was an exclusive gathering at the Fountain Theatre of special patrons invited to enjoy an early performance of the world stage premiere that they helped make happen. Executive Producers of Citizen: An American Lyric and their guests were welcomed to the Fountain for a preview performance in their honor, followed […]
Gilbert Glenn brown and Matthew Hancock (photo by Ed Krieger) The Fountain Theatre has been granted the rights to extend its Los Angeles premiere production of The Brothers Size by Tarell Alvin McCraney, initially announced as a limited engagement, through Sept. 14. Directed by Shirley Jo Finneyand starring Gilbert Glenn Brown, Matthew Hancock andTheodore Perkins, The Brothers Size (like the other plays in McCraney’s “Brother/Sister Plays” trilogy) is […]
Matthew Hancock, Jennifer Finch “Do anything, but let it produce joy.” ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass Our company of theatre artists for our upcoming LA Premiere of I And You produced joy at the first rehearsal Monday afternoon at the Fountain. Actors Matthew Hancock and Jennifer Finch met for the first time under the […]
Actresses Amy Pietz, Victoria Platt, Suanne Spoke, and Sabina Zuniga Varela will combine their versatile talents to play the same lead character in a special reading of Natural Shocks, Lauren Gunderson’s funny and powerful new play on gun violence and gun control, at the Fountain Theatre on Friday, April 20th at 11:19am. Co-Artistic Director Stephen […]
by France-Luce Benson Josh Wilder might be the most down to earth wunderkind I’ve ever met. Barely in his 30s, he is the winner of numerous awards including the Jerome Many Voices Fellowship, the Lorraine Hansberry Award, and Holland New Voices – among others. But the Philly native truly represents “brotherly love” – spending his […]
The following interview with The Lifespan of a Fact director Simon Levy originally appeared on BroadwayWorld.com on Feb. 7, 2023. Written by Gil Kaan. Simon Levy, director, The Lifespan of a Fact The Fountain Theatre west coast premieres Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell & Gordon Farrell’s The Lifespan of a Fact, opening February 18th. Thank you for taking the time for […]