Actresses Amy Pietz, Victoria Platt, Suanne Spoke, and Sabina Zuniga Varela will combine their versatile talents to play the same lead character in a special reading of Natural Shocks, Lauren Gunderson’s funny and powerful new play on gun violence and gun control, at the Fountain Theatre on Friday, April 20th at 11:19am. Co-Artistic Director Stephen […]
By Terri Roberts Over the past three decades, the Fountain Theatre has worked with a vast array of wildly talented Black actors, directors, designers and more. Many of them have worked with us on multiple productions over the years. We reached out to several of these wonderful artists and asked them a variety questions on […]
Sharing some early rehearsal photos from our upcoming LA Premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney‘s In the Red and Brown Water, the struggle of a young female athlete’s need to rise above the stagnation of her Louisiana housing project, directed by Shirley Jo Finney. Enjoy! This slideshow requires JavaScript. In the Red and Brown Water Oct […]
The Fountain Theatre will host a workshop production of a new play by Leigh Curran, Body Beautiful on June 5-6 and 12-13 at 8pm. Thayer, a 72-year-old, gay psychotherapist and his ex-wife and great friend, Emma, decide to move back in together to take care of each other through their old age. Emma is still […]
By Terri Roberts June is Pride month, a time of Mardi Gras-like celebration for the LGBTQ+ community that’s highlighted locally by the annual L.A. Pride Festival and Parade. The first Pride march, held June 28, 1970, was established to mark the one-year anniversary of the now infamous Stonewall uprising – an event widely seen as […]
Maleni Chaitoo from New York is ready to get to work at the Fountain. Rehearsals start tomorrow at the Fountain for the world premiere of the thrilling new deaf/hearing version of Cyrano set in a modern city. In this re-imagined new adaptation of the classic “Cyrano de Bergerac” Cyrano is a brilliant deaf poet hopelessly […]
The Fountain Theatre announces Fountain Voices, an innovative arts education initiative that utilizes the power of theater to promote compassion and acceptance of others. The program launched at Hollywood High School in Fall 2020 and is now expanding to the Compton Unified School District, where it will commence March 8 at Clarence A. Dickinson K-8.Integrating playwriting, critical thinking and performance, Fountain Voices […]
The study of theater has always been a slightly odd fit with higher education. Theater’s departmental needs are so different from the norm: Where other programs require smart classrooms, desks, and Wi-Fi, we seek vast, empty spaces with sprung wood floors and natural light. The inner life of a chemistry major should not affect the […]
I fell in love with Flamenco as a teenager listening to Carmen Amaya. From that time on I was always looking for live Flamenco-and that’s the real stuff not “Spanish Dance.” I came to find out that the Fountain Theatre was THE place. Debroah Lawlor has been the Flamenco Patron for Los Angeles. The Fountain’s […]
Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, Fountain Theatre, 2023. by Stephen Sachs “Isn’t that the theatre where they did Last Summer at Bluefish Cove?” It was 1990, and I heard that a lot. My business partner, Deborah Lawlor, and I had just acquired the Fountain Theatre in East Hollywood. We had only an empty building and […]
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Leith Burke in ‘Citizen: An American Lyric’ at the Fountain Theatre. by Rick Chertoff With the current discussion on race and apartheid in Israel/Palestine, Citizen couldn’t be more timely. Only seconds into Citizen: An American Lyric you’ll find yourself at the “ground zero” of any black person’s life in this country, faced with the inevitability […]
By France-Luce Benson The Fountain Theatre is proud to be participating in the L.A. County Arts Internship program, the largest paid arts internship program in the nation. Established in 2000 by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, the program provides undergraduate students with meaningful on the job training and experience working in nonprofit arts organizations. […]
Fountain Co-Artistic Director Stephen Sachs welcomes guests. Friends and supporters of the Fountain Theatre and East West Players gathered Sunday at the lovely Hollywood home of Diana Buckhantz to celebrate the upcoming California Premiere of Hannah and the Dread Gazebo by Jiehae Park. There is much to celebrate. The production marks the first time the […]