by Terri Roberts In this final segment of our Conversations with Black Artists series, we talk with director Shirley Jo Finney, and actors Gilbert Glenn Brown and Theo Perkins. We are grateful to all of the wonderful performers and creatives who have been so generous with their time and shared their thoughts about issues around […]
Martyna Majok Have you ever met and talked with a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright? Now’s your chance. New York-based playwright Martyna Majok, author of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winning drama Cost of Living now playing at the Fountain Theatre, visits this weekend to host two special events at the Fountain to engage audiences and interact […]
My Name is Asher Lev Feb 15 – April 19 (323) 663-1525 MORE This entry was posted in Acting, actors, Arts, Drama, Fountain Theatre, new plays, plays, playwright, Theater, theatre and tagged actors, Anna Khaja, artistic director, Brooklyn, Chaim Potok, director, Fountain Theatre, Hasidic, Jason Karasev, Jewish, Joel Polis, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Premiere, My […]
Dick Price and Sharon Kyle by Dick Price and Sharon Kyle With his stunning world premiere presentation of Human Interest Story at the Fountain Theatre, playwright and director Stephen Sachs stitches together issues deeply affecting American society, delivering them with a witty edge and kinetic punch that thrilled the audience the night we attended. Our […]
Michael Elyanow by Michael Elyanow We hear it a lot about playwriting—that there’s no money in it. Whether or not that’s actually true, I had the opportunity to talk about this issue recently when I met with a young playwright, a senior at Northwestern University’s Creative Writing for the Media Program, who wanted to pick […]
Mondays at the Fountain Theatre are usually slow and quiet. The traditional day off for folks in the theatre, Mondays at the Fountain are usually spent catching up on office paperwork and reconciling reports from a weekend of performances. But yesterday was anything but quiet when a series of national news stories on our upcoming […]
Fountain Co-Artistic Director Stephen Sachs waves from the stage at the Ovation Awards. It was a memorable evening for the Fountain Theatre Sunday night, November 2nd, at the 2014 Ovation Awards hosted by LA Stage Alliance and held at the historic San Gabriel Mission Playhouse in San Gabriel. The Fountain was honored with the prestigious Best […]
We came to the Kirk Douglas Theatre on Monday night to express our gratitude to Center Theatre Group, we came to congratulate three local companies and their productions, we came to celebrate intimate theatre in Los Angeles. And, most of all, we came to PARTY! Approximately 300 theatre folk from all over the LA area […]
Martyna Majok Martyna Majok won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her original play Cost of Living. Staged at Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) last summer, after a brief run at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the Berkshires in Massachusetts, the play opens at the Fountain Theatre on October 20. Cost of Living tells two parallel, relationship-driven stories. […]
‘Citizen: An American Lyric’ at the Fountain Theatre by Lexi Lallatin Anytime I see a show that is addressing a hot topic issue, I have a small amount of trepidation. Because a majority of shows taking on the important subjects tend to do it from a soapbox, or in rare cases, stop being a show […]
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by Stephen Sachs The outside world goes away whenever I work on a play. More so, when I’m out-of-town. And when the town happens to be a soothing and idyllic seaside village like this, the dream work of play-making dissolves into the dream world around me and the outside world recedes from consciousness like a […]
Dorian Baucum and Diarra Kilpatrick and company in “In the Red and Brown Water” If you’ve had the unforgettable experience of seeing the Fountain Theatre’s critically-acclaimed Los Angeles Premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s In the Red and Brown Water, you can see by his heartfelt performance of Ogun Size that Dorian Baucum is a talented […]
‘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 […]