Troy Kotsur as Cyrano. The forces behind a well-received stage production have worked together for a long time, forever bonding the Fountain and Deaf West theater companies. by Karen Wada Nearly a decade ago, an improbable dream came true for Deaf West Theatre and its founder, Ed Waterstreet. The small, L.A.-based company went to Broadway […]
Dancer Fanny Ara The hottest flamenco is at the Fountain! With only 80 seats in four rows, the Fountain Theatre is the perfect venue. Each performance features a roster of world-class Flamenco dancers, singers and musicians drawn from the rich pool of Flamenco artists in Southern California, with additional guest artists brought from San Francisco, […]
Troy Kotsur as Cyrano. The forces behind a well-received stage production have worked together for a long time, forever bonding the Fountain and Deaf West theater companies. by Karen Wada Nearly a decade ago, an improbable dream came true for Deaf West Theatre and its founder, Ed Waterstreet. The small, L.A.-based company went to Broadway […]
Enjoy this new video created from our critically acclaimed sold-out 2012 production of Cyrano. This world premiere of a new play, a re-imagined sign language spin on the romantic classic Cyrano de Bergerac reset in a modern city, has been named a Theater Highlight of 2012 by LA Stage Times. In this funny, poetic and […]
Victoria Platt and Bo Foxworth in ‘Building the Wall’ By Stephen Sachs One play was written more than 400 years ago, the other last October. Both written by playwrights worried about the future of their countries. One author took months to pen his work, the other took one week. One writer has been dead 400 […]
Victoria Platt and Bo Foxworth in ‘Building the Wall’ By Stephen Sachs One play was written more than 400 years ago, the other last October. Both written by playwrights worried about the future of their countries. One author took months to pen his work, the other took one week. One writer has been dead 400 […]
Snapshots from our party celebrating the magical sold-out run of the world premiere of Cyrano after the final performance on Sunday, July 29th. This slideshow requires JavaScript. Posted in actors, Arts, Fountain Theatre, new plays, performing arts, plays, theatre Tagged American Sign Language, ASL, Bob Hiltermann, Chip Bent, Cyrano, Cyrano de Bergerac, Daniel Durant, David Kurs, […]
Sharing some early rehearsal photos from our upcoming LA Premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney‘s In the Red and Brown Water, the struggle of a young female athlete’s need to rise above the stagnation of her Louisiana housing project, directed by Shirley Jo Finney. Enjoy! This slideshow requires JavaScript. In the Red and Brown Water Oct […]
Troy Kotsur and Paul Raci in a scene from “Cyrano”. Cast members from our acclaimed co-production of Cyrano were asked to perform a scene from the play at a Deaf West fundraising event honoring Ed Waterstreet last Saturday at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. A co-production between Fountain Theatre and Deaf West Theatre, Cyrano […]
by Marvin B. Farber Written after a riveting matinee performance of The Fountain Theatre and Deaf West Theatre co-production of a new play, Cyrano. Erinn Anova and Troy Kotsur in “Cyrano”. BRILLIANCE An inspired deaf poet patterns his poetry of love with graceful, sensual movements of the hands. American Sign Language Skill of the deaf actor his […]
Victoria Platt and Bo Foxworth in ‘Building the Wall’ By Stephen Sachs One play was written more than 400 years ago, the other last October. Both written by playwrights worried about the future of their countries. One author took months to pen his work, the other took one week. One writer has been dead 400 […]
Paloma Rios After a very successful year of presenting Forever Flamenco in the beautiful 300-seat Gallery Theatre in Barnsdall Park, Flamenco returns to the intimate 78-seat Fountain Theatre for one night only this Sunday, March 25th, at 8pm. Produced by Deborah Lawlor, the cozy Fountain is the perfect venue to enjoy Flamenco music and dance. […]
Fred Herko She knew him in the final years of his life. He shared her apartment months before he died. His memory, and the inspiration his passionate spirit ignited, has firmly gripped her for fifty-three years. Next week, Fountain Co-Artistic Director Deborah Lawlor pays tribute to her gifted and troubled friend with Freddy, her new […]
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, […]