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 […]
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The Fountain Theatre in Hollywood by Stephen Sachs Hollywood is heralded around the globe as the mesmerizing “movie capital of the world,” yet more plays are produced each year in Los Angeles than major motion pictures. In fact, Los Angeles has more live theaters and creates more theatre productions per year than any other city […]
by Jill Dolan Jill Dolan I’m coming late to the controversy over the resoundingly white male-written and -directed season announced for the Guthrie next year, in part because I’m tired of hearing myself rehearse the same old indignities at these repetitive insults to women’s artistry and integrity. Reading the many smart excoriations of Guthrie artistic director Joe Dowling’s defensive […]
Posted in Acting, actors, African American, Central Avenue, Citizen: An American Lyric, Fountain Theatre, performing arts, playwright, playwriting, poem, poetry, The Ballad of Emmett Till Tagged actors, Ben Bradley, Fountain Theatre, Ifa Bayeza, Los Angeles, new plays, performing arts, plays, Shirley Jo Finney, Stephen Sachs, theater, theatre The Fountain Theatre presents the West Coast premiere […]
Tina Lifford by Tina Lifford It’s too much. It’s too much! I could be talking about Trayvon Martin, James Craig Anderson, the massacre at Emanuel AME Church or the racist incidences of this past week, when African American churches in the South burned to the ground. However, I am not talking about these tragedies, at […]
by Terri Roberts On August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was abducted from the home of his great uncle, Mose “Preacher” Wright, in the still-dark hours of a Mississippi morning. The two abductors were white; one of them carried a flashlight and a gun. Together, they forced the black teenager into the back of a […]
Gilbert Glenn Brown and Suanne Spoke in ‘The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek’. The Fountain Theatre has been honored with 4 Stage Raw Awards for its 2015 productions of The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek and Citizen: An American Lyric. The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek was the West Coast Premiere of Athol Fugard’s new […]
Joel Polis and Jason Karasev by David C. Nichols Saw My Name is Asher Lev last night. Will likely be thinking about it for quite some time to come. The Fountain Theatre continues its ongoing roll with this potent three-hander based on Chaim Potok’s best seller about an Orthodox Jew in post-WWII Brooklyn torn between Hasidic tradition […]
Troy Kotsur as Cyrano The Fountain Theatre‘s acclaimed and sold-out co-production with Deaf West Theatre of Cyrano received two Ovation Award nominations last night. Actor Troy Kotsur has been nominated for Best Lead Actor in a Play for his lead role as Cyrano , and playwright Stephen Sachs for Best Original Play. The Ovation […]
The Spanish term for a heightened state of emotion and authenticity, “duende,” roughly translates to a single word, “soul.” It’s also the elusive ingredient at the heart of flamenco, the centuries-old art form whose Andalusian origins, while not completely known, are an exotic blend of Jewish, Arab, and Roma (also known as Gypsy) cultures. Commonly […]
Gilbert Glenn Brown, Suanne Spoke, Thomas Silcott, Philip Solomon “Maybe one day you will also walk many roads.” Nukain Mabuza, The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek Our company of theatre artists began their walk together on the road […]
In our current West Coast premiere of On the Spectrum, an online e-chat between two young people with autism blossoms into a friendship and unforgettable love story. Now’s your chance to chat live online with the two lead actors who play that autistic couple. Live chat with actors Virginia Newcomb and Dan Shaked from On the Spectrum tonight, Wednesday […]
Christina Rice and Wendy Horowitz from Los Angeles Central Library pick up Ed Krieger archives at Fountain Theatre. Photographer Ed Krieger captured hundreds of L.A. theater productions over the course of 40 years before his death on December 16, 2020. Now, the Fountain Theatre has arranged for his large collection of photos, negatives, slides and […]