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 […]
Reaching out to students and making theatre available to young people is vitally important to the Fountain Theatre. And we love it when students reach back. Such was the case on October 24th when the Fountain hosted teacher Alan Goodson and his students from Fashion Institute for Design and Merchandising to a performance of our sizzling […]
Diarra Kilpatrick and cast in “In the Red and Brown Water” The 8 nominations for the Fountain Theatre are: PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR In the Red and Brown Water, Fountain Theatre ENSEMBLE The Blue Iris, Fountain Theatre LEADING FEMALE PERFORMANCE Diarra Kilpatrick, In the Red and Brown Water SUPPORTING FEMALE PERFORMANCE Jacqueline Schultz, The Blue Iris […]
Vickie Ramirez, unidentified, Nikkole Salter, Roberta Uno, Dionna Michelle Daniel, Marissa Chibas, Lynn Nottage (photo: ArtsChangeUs) by Dionna Michelle Daniel On March 6th, I had the pleasure of participating in the book launch at The Public Theater for the anthology Contemporary Plays by Women of Color edited by Roberta Uno. Not only was a scene from […]
The upstairs rehearsal room at the Fountain last night was transported back to 1964 and Andy Warhol’s Factory with the first reading of the new play, Freddie, written by Fountain Co-Artistic Director Deborah Lawlor. Freddie tells the unforgettable true story of Frederick Herko, the young avant garde dancer who galvanized audiences and those who knew him in New York’s […]
By Terri Roberts Here, in the second part of our series of conversations with Black artists who have frequently worked with the Fountain Theatre, we talk with actor and director’s assistant Erinn Anova, as well as actors Karen Malina White and Victoria Platt. More conversations to come. Stay tuned! Erinn Anova Actor: Central Avenue, Direct […]
Students wait in our cafe for the play to begin. There are few goals for the Fountain more gratifying and rewarding than reaching out and connecting with young people. We enjoyed that realization on Monday morning when 70 students from Glendale High School attended a special performance of our hit play My Mañana Comes. The cast […]
In our upcoming world premiere of Dream Catcher, Roy is a engineer working for a major solar power corporation to combat climate change. In this moving and informative essay, a NASA scientist shares his fight against global warming while battling cancer. by Piers J. Sellers I’m a climate scientist who has just been told I […]
While the cast of our summer production, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, have been hard at work rehearsing, Sets-to-Go has been hard at work building the incredible set designed by our fabulous scenic designer, Desma Murphy. Last week, the set for the Bluefish Cove beach cottage where a group of lesbian women spend their summers […]