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 […]
Technical rehearsals are a slow, painstaking process. When all of the technical and design elements — light cues, sound cues, sets, props, costumes — are layered in and integrated with the timing of the actors. Whenever I work at other theatres around the country I’m always curious to witness how other companies run a tech. […]
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. […]
Our west coast premiere of Athol Fugard’s beautiful new play, The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, has earned sold-out houses and rave reviews everywhere. Final two weeks! This acclaimed production must end December 14th. More Info/Get Tickets Posted in Acting, Art, arts organizations, Athol Fugard, Drama, Fountain Theatre, new plays, non-profit organization, Outsider Art, playwriting, […]
‘Broomstick’ set design by Andrew Hammer (photo by Ed Krieger) Jenny O’Hara’s mesmerizing solo performance in our acclaimed LA Premiere of Broomstick has been rightly hailed by critics as a “tour-de-force”. The same can certainly be said of the extraordinary set design by Andrew Hammer. Andrew has created an absolutely enchanting witch’s cottage that […]
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 […]
2018 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge by Nic Novicki On December 12, The Fountain Theatre graciously hosted a special screening of films from the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, an annual weekend film competition where participating teams have 55 hours to create a short film. Beyond props, locations and genre, the most important rule of the film challenge […]