The cast of ‘The Chosen’ in rehearsal. Friendship, faith and fatherhood. Jonathan Arkin, Alan Blumenfeld, Dor Gvirtsman and Sam Mandel star in The Chosen, the award-winning stage adaptation by Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok of Potok’s beloved novel. Simon Levy directs for a January 20 opening at the Fountain Theatre, where performances continue through March 25. The Fountain celebrates the novel’s 50th anniversary (last April) with the West Coast premiere of Posner’s new, streamlined […]

by Simon Levy Note: Being sick away from home is not recommended when you’re at the start of workshopping a new work. I finally took myself to George Washington University Hospital ER on Wednesday night to find out what was going on. Apparently my oxygen level was below normal and they were fearful I might […]

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 […]

Claudia Rankine at the Fountain Theatre by Lynell George On the American “stage” — within mainstream media and in public discourse — the discussion of race and racism is often defined by spectacle: an event that we can collectively point to that plays out on our screens, large and small. It might be the grievous […]

Eddie Buck Cyrano actors Daniel Durant and Eddie Buck recently spent a day off from rehearsal to visit Marlton School for the Deaf in Los Angeles. The Marlton School is the only public day school for Deaf/Hard of Hearing students in kindergarten through 12th grade within Los Angeles Unified School District.  The school has a bilingual […]

Anna Khaja, Joel Polis and Jason Karasev in “My Name is Asher Lev” The Fountain Theatre is pleased to announce that it has received six 2014 Ovation Award nominations, including in the prestigious categories of Best Season and Best Production of a Play. Fountain productions eligible for the 2013-14 Ovation voting season were our riveting […]

A peer group of 2016 LA County interns. Know a college student looking for a paying job this summer? A young person who likes theatre and enjoys working in a crazy, eccentric theatrical environment? Search no further. The Fountain is the place. The Fountain Theatre is now accepting applications to hire one college student as […]

Maya Lynne Robinson and Karen Malina White, Runaway Home, 2017. The Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Branch this week announced its nominees for the 28th Annual NAACP Theatre Awards.  The nominating committee is one year behind in its honoring process, only now selecting theatre productions opening January 2017 through December 2017.  The Fountain Theatre’s acclaimed 2017 Los Angeles […]

Virginia Newcomb and Dan Shaked by Steven Sabel “It’s all a very personal saga for me,” says playwright Ken LaZebnik. He’s speaking about his play On The Spectrum. It was commissioned by Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis, where artistic director Jack Reuler directed the 2011 premiere as part of the Center of the Margins Festival. Then it tied for second place in last year’s […]

The Fountain Theatre believes students and young people must have the opportunity to engage and consider meaningful human issues through the experience of live theatre.  We love having students in our audience. They are the artists, arts patrons and arts leaders of tomorrow.  We’re always delighted when teacher Alan Goodson brings his students from Fashion Institute […]

New Fountain Theatre logo The Fountain Theatre has a new website and a new logo! After 23 years, it’s time to redesign our website and revitalize our logo. Our new website is sleek, classy, intuitive, user-friendly, and easy to navigate. Our new logo blends the influence of our original lettering with a contemporary style and adds the image […]

By Terri Roberts I have a ritual I perform every night, no matter what. I write out a list of the things I am grateful for that day and text it to a dear friend. He, in turn, sends me his nightly Gratitude List as well. We have been doing this, without fail, for almost […]

The Fountain Theatre will host a workshop production of a new play by Leigh Curran,  Body Beautiful on June 5-6 and 12-13 at 8pm. Thayer, a 72-year-old, gay psychotherapist and his ex-wife and great friend, Emma, decide to move back in together to take care of each other through their old age. Emma is still […]

by Jonathan Mandell “How do you make the magic?” students from a middle school in the Bronx asked after seeing their first Broadway show. Their attendance was an outgrowth of a conference Monday at TEDxBroadway 2014. TED, which started as a conference thirty years ago and has expanded into something of a movement, stands for “Technology, […]