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Melina Young at the Fountain Theatre. by Melina Drake Young Hi. My name is Melina Drake Young and I’m the new Development Intern at the Fountain Theatre. This is supposed to be a chatty-get-to-know-me kind of piece, so let’s chat and get to know—well—me. I would say each other, but since this isn’t a real […]
Katie McConaughy and Susan Wilder in ‘Freddy’, 2017. by Randy Cohen The arts are fundamental to our humanity. They ennoble and inspire us—fostering creativity, goodness, and beauty. The arts bring us joy, help us express our values, and build bridges between cultures. The arts also are a fundamental component of healthy communities, strengthening them socially, […]
Check out this short new video of Hannah Wolf, fabulous director of Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, as she discusses how love and friendship are core themes of this iconic, funny, and poignant play. Set in 1974, Bluefish concerns a group of queer women who spend their summers together in a remote seaside town. Their […]
‘The Brothers Size’ company celebrates a wonderful run. On Sunday, September 14th, the Fountain Theatre celebrated the finish of the wonderful run of our LA Premiere of The Brothers Size with a party in our upstairs cafe. Actors, audience and company members gathered for food, drink and good times following the exhilarating and deeply moving […]
The Burrus ‘Baby Doll’ House today. In July, actress Lindsay LaVanchy was in the thick of rehearsals at the Fountain Theatre in the lead role of Baby Doll in our west coast premiere when she got a phone call from her agent. Lindsay had booked a guest starring role on the MTV series Scream. It […]
The cast of Detained. Photo by Jenny Webb. After a long list of rave reviews and a successful run of nearly three months, the Fountain Theatre’s world premiere production of the gripping docudrama, Detained, comes to an end on Sunday, May 15th. The final performances of Detained are May 9 and 14 at 8pm, and […]
Fountain Co-Artistic Director and Writer/Director Stephen Sachs is in Cape Cod for the opening of his new play, Bakersfield Mist, at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre. by Stephen Sachs Monday, August 8 Wellfleet Harbor sits nestled on the edge of Cape Cod just a few hamlets over from Provincetown. A tiny beachfront resort village famous for […]
Lauren Gunderson’s “I and You”, Fountain Theatre, 2015. By Lauren Gunderson Think of this pitch to a room of venture capitalists: “What we’re proposing is a scalable, repeatable product that makes vital intellectual and emotional wisdom portable, communicable, and adaptable and memorable. Everyone will use it and keep using it for millennia. We call it: […]
Deanne Bray and Troy Kotsur in “Arrival & Departure” Broadway World announced that the Fountain Theatre’s acclaimed world premiere of Arrival & Departure, written and directed by Stephen Sachs, earned four Broadway World Los Angeles Awards, including Best Play in 2018. Other Broadway World Los Angeles Awards for Arrival & Departure went to Troy Kotsur for […]
Check out this short new video of Hannah Wolf, fabulous director of Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, as she discusses how love and friendship are core themes of this iconic, funny, and poignant play. Set in 1974, Bluefish concerns a group of queer women who spend their summers together in a remote seaside town. Their […]
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in ‘Brief Encounter.’ Everyone has their most-cherished romantic movie. Even the professionals who make movies. When Time Out London recently polled 101 motion picture experts to select the 100 Best Romantic Films of all time, the panel voted the 1945 classic film Brief Encounter as #1, declaring it “the most romantic film […]
‘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 […]
“On the Spectrum” at the Fountain Theatre In the Fountain Theatre’s West Coast premiere of Ken LaZebnik’s On the Spectrum, Iris has autism and a deep, vivid inner life that she creates online on her “Other World” blog. That world comes to life on stage through the vision of director Jacqueline Schultz and the wizardry […]