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An electrifying thrill filled the air Saturday night, March 18, as the Fountain Theatre opened the highly-anticipated world premiere of Building the Wall by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Robert Schenkkan. Even before opening, our bold National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere has earned national attention in the New York Times, the […]
Katina Dunn and Jose Tanaka By Mikey Hirano Culross A new documentary, exploring the reach of flamenco music and dance into Los Angeles, screens Friday at the Fountain Theatre. Conventional wisdom would have us assume that anyone directing a documentary has at least scant knowledge of the subject being explored. Asked how much she knew […]
A personal message from Co-Artistic Director Stephen Sachs. Donate Now This entry was posted in Art, Arts, arts organizations, Fountain Theatre, Hollywood, Los Angeles, new plays, non-profit organization, performing arts, plays, stage, Theater, theatre and tagged arts, arts organizations, contribution, donate, Fountain Theatre, Hollywood, kinship, Los Angeles, non-profit arts organization, nonprofit, Stephen Sachs, support, theater, […]
Matthew Hancock, Theodore Perkins and Gilbert Glenn Brown (photo by Ed Krieger) Shirley Jo Finney, director of the Fountain Theatre’s multiple award-winning production of In the Red and Brown Water in 2012, returns to direct the second play in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s “Brother/Sister Plays” trilogy. The Los Angeles premiere of The Brothers Size opens June […]
Photo by Jenny Graham by Terri Roberts Twenty months ago, the Fountain Theatre was forced to close in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Downstairs our stage was dark. Upstairs the café was empty. It was an unimaginable time. All of that has changed now. The success of preventatives (vaccines, masks, etc.) have allowed theatres to […]
Robert Schenkkan’s powerful new political thriller Building the Wall, now playing to sold-out houses at the Fountain Theatre, will open Off-Broadway at New World Stages for a limited run May 12 to July 9th. The New York production will feature Tamara Tunie (“Law & Order: SVU”) and James Badge Dale (“13 hours”, “The Departed”), directed […]
Dick Motika & Jerrie Whitfield The Fountain Theatre is thrilled to introduce two new members of its Board of Directors: Dick Motika and his wife, Jerrie Whitfield. Dick and Jerrie are avid arts supporters and share a love for theatre, especially The Fountain Theatre and Center Theatre Group. Fountain subscribers for many years, Dick and […]
Chauvet Cave by Eric Coble Emerging from the One Theatre World conference on plays for young audiences, this past May, life was pretty wondrous. And ringing in my head was a concept totally unrelated to any of what I’d just seen or experienced, except that it was perhaps at the very heart of the experience, and perhaps the heart […]
For many folks throughout Los Angeles, June means the end of school, the pageantry of graduation ceremonies and the long awaited start of summer. For the more than 600,000 LGBT citizens in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, June is LA Pride Month, when the city bursts into rainbow colors and Angelenos everywhere celebrate equality and inclusion […]
Tamlyn Tomita and Juanita Jennings in ‘Heart Song’ Our 2013 Fountain Theatre World Premiere production of Heart Song has been nominated for 2 NAACP Theatre Awards for excellence in acting and choreography. Juanita Jennings has been nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Maria Bermudez for Best Choreography. The 24th Annual NAACP Awards ceremony will be held Monday, […]
Judith Moreland and Bo Foxworth, ‘Building the Wall’, Fountain Theatre You know them as the New York-based organization that presents the Tony Awards and the Obies each year. But the American Theatre Wing provides a myriad of other remarkable services nationwide. It provides grants and scholarships, connect talents at all stages with educational and professional opportunities, […]
The Canon Theatre, Beverly Hills by Stephen Sachs She called to take me up on my offer. I struggled to place who she was. A young woman from my Playwrighting Group in Hollywood willing to volunteer to usher at my theatre in Beverly Hills for the perk of seeing our long running hit play for […]
Sam Mandel, Dor Gvirtsman with Deborah Kobylt Director Simon Levy and actors Sam Mandel and Dor Gvirtsman enjoyed chatting about our smash hit production of The Chosen with talk radio/TV host Deborah Kobylt on Wednesday. The acclaimed sold-out run of The Chosen has been extended to June 10th. A silent father, an ancient tradition and […]