Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
by Victoria Looseleaf 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 a…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 10:47AMFriday, October 18, 2019
by Guillermo Cienfuegos How the Los Angeles premiere of Between Riverside and Crazy, this great, Pulitzer Prize winning play by Stephen Adly Guirgis managed to fall into my hands, I’ll nev…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 12:12PMThursday, October 17, 2019
By Darlene Donloe Montae Russell is well known throughout Los Angeles theater circles for playing meaty roles. He’s played Charlie “Bird” Parker in Bird Lives!, Memphis in Two Train…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 12:08PMWednesday, October 16, 2019
Thursday, October 10, 2019
By Brendan Kiley What’s so special about theater? I’ve been asked that last question so many times, and asked it in return, never getting further than the theater enthusiast’s shopwor…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 12:10PMMonday, September 30, 2019
by Stephen Sachs It came from the young producer of a newly-formed immersive theatre company. His troupe eschews the conventional production of plays. Instead, it presents “multisensory ex…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 03:04PMFriday, September 27, 2019
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Monday, September 16, 2019
The acclaimed Fountain Theatre has obtained permission from Warner Bros to present a one-night celebrity reading of the Jeremy Larner screenplay for the Academy Award winning 1972 movie, The…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 12:36PMWednesday, September 11, 2019
Monday, September 9, 2019
The Fountain Theatre is pleased to announce that it has been awarded an Arts and Humanities grant from the Ahmanson Foundation in the amount of $50,000, doubling the amount awarded to the Fo…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 11:19AMFriday, September 6, 2019
What happens when you mix a Pulitzer Prize winning script, a company of phenomenal actors and a skilled director together in one room? You get magic. From the moment the first lines of Ste…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 10:38AMWednesday, September 4, 2019
As retired Dodgers veteran sportscaster Vin Scully would declare, “It’s time for Dodgers baseball!” With the warm nights of summer comes the annual Fountain Theatre Dodgers Game Night,…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 11:50AMTuesday, September 3, 2019
Ever question if LA has a real theatre community? A true sense of camaraderie? Doubt no more. Last night, members of the cast from the Sierra Madre Playhouse production of The Joy Luck Club…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 11:59AMThursday, August 29, 2019
Monday, August 19, 2019
A packed house of passionate theatregoers, donors and guests, friends and family, and the invited press enjoyed Saturday night’s Opening performance of our California Premiere of Hannah an…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 11:28AMWednesday, August 14, 2019
by Carolina Xique It’s an exciting time to be an artist. In the last few years, the arts industry has been experiencing a high production value in diverse storytelling aimed toward better …
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 12:06PMTuesday, August 13, 2019
by Melina Young Post-show blues. It’s a common phrase among theatre folk. As we close the final performance of the Fountain Theatre’s arts education program, Walking the Beat Hollywood,…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 11:18AMWednesday, August 7, 2019
Friday, August 2, 2019
The Wallis Annenberg Foundation has awarded The Fountain Theatre a $40,000 grant for general operating support. The Annenberg Foundation is one of the top private philanthropies in the cou…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 07:04PMTuesday, July 23, 2019
Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture has awarded The Fountain Theatre a 2019-20 Organizational Grant in the amount of $20,900 to support the creation and implementatio…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 01:17PMby Melina Young As a kid I was vehemently unpatriotic. A weird stance for a kid to take. I was indifferent to fireworks and staunchly against country music, which is all I understood patrio…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 11:04AMSunday, July 21, 2019
by Stephen Sachs First, she said no. She would not do it. When her grandfather asked her again in the Fountain Theatre lobby, she awkwardly took a step back in retreat, shy and embarrassed.�…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 01:31PMTuesday, July 9, 2019
Our California Premiere of Hannah and the Dread Gazebo is an opportunity for the Fountain Theatre and East West Players to bring their community of artists, staff, Board members and patrons …
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 04:37PMFriday, July 5, 2019
by Stephen Sachs Some days, our building is tagged by graffiti. That’s life in East Hollywood. Some mornings, I arrive at the Fountain front door and discover a freshly sprayed scribbling …
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 10:40AMMonday, July 1, 2019
by Melina Young I’m scared. Terrified in fact. There, I said it. But really, who isn’t? It may come as a shock to absolutely no one that to be a recent college graduate is legitimately t…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 10:51AMThursday, June 27, 2019
We’ve been told what it is, what it isn’t. What’s in it, what’s not. But how many have actually read it for themselves? Even some members of Congress haven’t read it. Robert Muelle…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 11:13AMWednesday, June 26, 2019
Creation myths and family histories meld in a wildly theatrical, startling new comedy that explores what it means to walk the edge between cultures. The Fountain Theatre, in association wi…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 12:06PMTuesday, June 25, 2019
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 a…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 09:53PM 
