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What Would Be on Your “Best of 2011” List for the Fountain Theatre? | Intimate Excellent

The end of another year is upon us. With the year-end parties and New Year resolutions come the flurry from Los Angeles theater critics of “Best of 2011” lists. The Fountain is pleased to appear on several. Which Fountain plays and artists would be on your “Best of 2011” list? Jenny O’Hara and Nick Ullett […]

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Metropolitan Opera | Intimate Excellent

In a first-time-ever collaboration, the Fountain Theatre and LA Opera present “Smashing Barriers in Opera and Beyond,” an in-person conversation with author, lecturer, and Metropolitan Opera commentator William Berger and internationally acclaimed opera singer Morris Robinson. This free event will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 19, at 8pm on the Fountain Theatre’s beautiful new Outdoor […]

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Next at the Fountain: West Coast Premiere of “El Nogalar” starts Jan 21 | Intimate Excellent

Director Laurie Wooleryand dramaturg Luis Alfaro team up on an explosive tale of humor and heartache in a changing Mexico. The West Coast premiereof El Nogalar (“The Pecan Orchard”) by Tanya Saracho opens at The Fountain Theatre on January 28, with low-priced previews beginning January 21. When the Galvan family returns home to Mexico after years in the U.S., they must come to terms with encroaching […]

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Mr. Levy Goes to Washington | Intimate Excellent

Simon Levy Fountain Producing Director/Dramaturg Simon Levy flies off to Washington DC this weekend to direct one of the projects for the NNPN MFA Playwrights’ Workshop held annually at The Kennedy Center. Since 2006, the National New Play Network (of which the Fountain is a member) has presented a week-long summer workshop for recent plays of merit […]

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PHOTO SLIDESHOW: Full House for ‘Rap Dev’ Series for Young Playwrights | Intimate Excellent

A packed house of excited and eager young people filled the Fountain Theatre last night with lively energy as the Fountain launched  its new play reading series, Rap Dev, serving playwrights thirty years old or younger. Created and produced by Fountain Associate Producer James Bennett and Jessica Broutt, Rap Dev (short for Rapid Development) is […]

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Actor Sam Mandel shares how the message of ‘The Chosen’ is so timely and universal | Intimate Excellent

More Info/Get Tickets This entry was posted in actors, arts organizations, Books, Drama, Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles, new plays, non-profit organization, performing arts, plays, Theater, theatre and tagged actor, book, Chaim Potok, classic, Fountain Theatre, Jewish, Los Angeles, Sam mandel, The Chosen, theater, theatre. Bookmark the permalink.

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When Real Life Interrupts | Intimate Excellent

by Stephen Sachs She was sitting with friends in the third row of the center section. Good seats close to the aisle. She was enjoying our world premiere of Athol Fugard’s The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek. An older woman, she liked going to the theatre and had seen many plays over her long span of […]

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university | Intimate Excellent

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 […]

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Women: The Same Dream in a New World Since ‘Heidi’? | Intimate Excellent

THE day after my new play, “Rapture, Blister, Burn,” began previews Off Broadway I received a Facebook message from Wendy Wasserstein’s former assistant, a fellow playwright named Jenny Lyn Bader. Jenny had been in our first audience and wanted to tell me how much she had enjoyed the play. She said she wished Wendy were here to […]

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art | Intimate Excellent

Fountain Theatre’s “Citizen: An American Lyric” at Grand Park, Los Angeles, 2018. by Mary Gabriel In the late 1930s, amid a global economic collapse, the rise of fascism in Germany, Italy and Japan, and an ugly U.S. nationalism that targeted asylum-seeking immigrants, abstract artists working in New York pondered the perennial question: What is the […]

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imagination | Intimate Excellent

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 […]

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Art imitates life in site-specific Zoom play ‘Talking Peace’ by France-Luce Benson | Intimate Excellent

Playwright France-Luce Benson is the Community Engagement Coordinator at the Fountain Theatre, and host of the online gathering, “Saturday Matinees.” Art imitates life when the Fountain Theatre presents Talking Peace, a new 10-minute, site-specific “Zoom-within-a-Zoom” by acclaimed playwright France-Luce Benson. Talking Peace will premiere on day one of Alternative Theatre L.A.’s Together LA: A Virtual Theatre Festival, one of six short plays presented by […]

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Dominique Morisseau | Intimate Excellent

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 […]

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John Biguenet | Intimate Excellent

‘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 […]

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