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 […]
More Info/Get Tickets Posted in African American, artist, Arts, arts organizations, Drama, Fountain Theatre, hip hop, Los Angeles, Music, non-profit organization, performing arts, plays, playwright, Theater, theatre Tagged Fountain Theatre, friendship, hip hop, Hollywood, Hype Man, Idris Goodwin, justice, Los Angeles, new play, PLAY, playwright, racism, theater, theatre, West Coast Premiere What is hip hop? […]
Adolphus Ward is well-known to Fountain audiences for his mesmerizing and award-winning work as an actor in such acclaimed productions as Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Coming Home, and The Train Driver. What you may not know is that he is also a writer: a published novelist. Adolphus has been honored […]
Ottavio Taddei is Freddie in the lab workshop Be part of the process as Deborah Lawlor develops her new theatre/dance piece about ballet dancer and friend Freddie Herko. Directed by Frances Loy, the Freddie workshop is an exploration of blending dance movement and theatre to tell the compelling true story of the charismatic dancer who […]
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. […]
There’s an app for that, as the saying goes. But an increasing number of entrepreneurial theater folk have noticed that for a lot of day-to-day legit work, there isn’t an app for that — and they’ve set about remedying the situation. Take Jeff Whiting, the latest legiter to add the unlikely words “software developer” to […]
Morlan Higgins and Julanne Chidi Hill in “The Blue Iris” Back in the year 2000, legendary South African playwright Athol Fugard was residing in Del Mar, teaching playwriting, acting and directing at UC San Diego — while continuing to turn out the prolific body of work that had earned him worldwide acclaim. He heard from […]
Ipek Mehlum Maleni Chaitoo Ipek Mehlum, Maleni Chaitoo, Martica de Cardenas, Erinn Anova Victor Warren Backstage Video by Daniel Durant on Opening Night Cyrano Now – June 10 (323) 663-1525 More Info Get Tickets This entry was posted in actors, Arts, Deaf, Fountain Theatre, new plays, performing arts, plays, playwright, theatre […]
Director Simon Levy speaks to the cast of ‘The Normal Heart’. Yesterday was our first “meet and greet” rehearsal for our upcoming production of The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer, directed by Simon Levy. The groundbreaking drama about public and private indifference to the onset of the AIDS crisis, and one man’s fight to awaken […]
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 Carolyn & Bud Rorman It’s been 8 years since our introduction to the Fountain Theatre. We heard about To Be Young, Gifted and Black and put it on our list of “must see’s” as Bud’s cousin, Robert Nemiroff, had produced this play adapted from the works of Lorraine Hansberry Nemiroff. Of course, we were […]
Dan Shaked in On the Spectrum The Fountain Theatre’s West Coast Premiere of On the Spectrum has been named a Highlight of 2013 Theater by writer Don Shirley in LA Stage Times. Written by Ken LaZebnik and directed by Jacqueline Schultz, the funny and poignant play dramatized the relationship between two young people with autism. […]
The “take Fountain” mural across the street from the Fountain Theatre in Hollywood. When Johnny Carson asked Bette Davis for advice on “the best way an aspiring starlet could get into Hollywood,” Ms. Davis replied without hesitation, “Take Fountain.” Fountain Avenue is a local favorite for many people who use it to cut across Hollywood quickly. It runs parallel […]
Enjoy this new video created to honor the 25th Anniversary of the Fountain Theatre. It was screened for 200 guests at the Gala held Saturday, October 3rd, at The Redbury Hotel in Hollywood. Video created by Rosylyn Rhee, with original music by Woody Pak. This entry was posted in arts organizations, Drama, performing arts, Theater, […]