Wednesday, September 12, 2018
by Stephen Sachs This is the story of a table saw. A steel-framed Sears Craftsman table saw manufactured when things were built to last. My father bought the saw more than fifty years ago, …
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 02:01PMMonday, September 10, 2018
The Fountain is presenting a free screening of the 1945 classic romantic film, Brief Encounter on Saturday, September 22 at 4:30pm. The screening is in conjunction with the Fountain’s …
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 04:10PMSaturday, September 8, 2018
Katy Sullivan will reprise her off-Broadway role in the West Coast premiere of Martyna Majok‘s Pulitzer Prize winning drama Cost of Living at the Fountain Theatre. Her acclaimed 2017 p…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 12:28PMFriday, September 7, 2018
Who says theatre nerds don’t like sports? Our annual Fountain Theatre Dodgers Game Night is a highly-anticipated event every year. Tuesday, a rowdy group of thirty Fountain Folk sat to…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 10:26AMFriday, August 24, 2018
by Saif Saigol It’s the end of August – the time of year that’s defined by back-to-school sales, the switch from iced coffee to hot coffee, and that one last outing with white pant…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 06:33PMFriday, August 17, 2018
The Fountain Theatre believes young people need access to the arts. Teens need to not only see art, they benefit from actively creating art themselves. That’s why the Fountain Theatre …
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 10:39AMThursday, August 16, 2018
Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. West Coast Premiere at the Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles. STORYLINE: Achingly human and surpri…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 05:34PMWednesday, August 15, 2018
The National Arts and Disability Center has awarded The Fountain an Arts and Accessibility Grant to support its upcoming West Coast Premiere of Martyna Majok‘s 2018 Pulitzer Prize winn…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 11:32AMFriday, August 10, 2018
Academy Award winning actress Marlee Matlin enjoyed seeing the Fountain Theatre’s world premiere of Arrival & Departure, hailing the innovative romantic drama as “magic”…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 10:30AMMonday, July 30, 2018
On July 19th, the Fountain Theatre witnessed it’s inaugural “book club” reading series WEDNESDAY’S @ THE FOUNTAIN and needless to say, it was a treat. WEDNESDAY’S @ THE…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 04:09PMWednesday, July 18, 2018
The Fountain Theatre seeks a friendly, motivated individual to fill a part-time position as a Bookkeeper. Must be a team player with a positive attitude who understands and enjoys the non-tr…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 09:09PMTuesday, July 17, 2018
by Bobby Steggert About two years ago, I completely turned my back on an acting career that I had spent twenty years building. I found myself increasingly discontented by the lack of contro…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 11:10AMMonday, July 16, 2018
Love was in the air on Saturday night for the opening of our world premiere of Arrival & Departure, the funny and poignant new play inspired by the classic romantic movie, Brief Encounte…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 05:36PMThursday, July 12, 2018
The Fountain Theatre has earned 7 Stage Raw Theater Award nominations for our world premiere production of Runaway Home by Jeremy J. Kamps, directed by Shirley Jo Finney. The Fountain produ…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 11:27AMWednesday, July 11, 2018
We put an old piano out front on the sidewalk hoping someone would take it. Instead, people in the neighborhood are playing it. This guy from NY was driving by, saw the piano on the sidewalk…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 12:10PMFriday, July 6, 2018
by Saif Saigol As a theatre lover, I have often struggled to qualify the artistic value of a show. What, for example, separates a great, large-scale Broadway musical from a great, smaller, e…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 10:07AMThursday, July 5, 2018
by James Bennett Sometimes the most important things in our lives aren’t singular, momentous events of shattering spontaneity, but instead, slow burns that steadily coalesce into an unstop…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 05:31PMMonday, July 2, 2018
On a beautiful Sunday morning at the lovely Encino home of Fountain board member Carrie Chassin and husband Jochen Haber, members of the Fountain Family and supporters of Arrival & Depa…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 10:58AMSaturday, June 30, 2018
By Dave Eggers This White House has been, and is likely to remain, home to the first presidency in American history that is almost completely devoid of culture. In the 17 months that Donald…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 10:49AMFriday, June 29, 2018
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Everyone has their most-cherished romantic movie. Even the professionals who make movies. When Time Out London recently polled 101 motion picture experts to select the 100 Best Romantic Film…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 09:57AMSunday, June 24, 2018
Hello Fountain community! My name is Saif Saigol and I am the new Development Intern at The Fountain Theatre this summer. A little bit about me: I am an Indian-Pakistani-Canadian raised in M…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 11:27AMWednesday, June 20, 2018
Our upcoming world premiere of Arrival & Departure is performed by a company of Deaf and hearing actors with an innovative blend of Spoken English, American Sign Language and open captio…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 11:14AMMonday, June 18, 2018
An unforgettable love story inspired by one of the most romantic movies of all time. Stephen Sachs directs Deaf actors Deanne Bray (Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye, Heroes) and Troy Kotsur (title role i…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 10:45AMTuesday, June 12, 2018
by Stephen Sachs Our six-month sold-out run of The Chosen came to an end on Sunday. In the opening moment of Aaron Posner’s stage adaptation of Chaim Potok’s classic novel, Reuven Malter…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 10:54AMMonday, June 11, 2018
After a critically-acclaimed, six month sold-out run, our production of Chaim Potok’s The Chosen celebrated its final performance yesterday to another full house and a standing ovation…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 11:05AMTuesday, June 5, 2018
Excitement was high and fingers were flying as the company of Deaf and hearing theatre artists gathered at the Fountain Theatre for the first rehearsal of Arrival & Departure, a new play…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 11:49AMFriday, June 1, 2018
Love is in the air this summer with the world premiere of Stephen Sachs’ new play, Arrival & Departure, inspired by the screenplay for Noel Coward’s Brief Encounter. Sachs di…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 10:27AMThursday, May 31, 2018
With great sadness, the Fountain Theatre mourns the loss of our dear friend and board member Dr. Ejike Ndefo, who passed away Tuesday, May 29th at USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center in L…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 09:50AMWednesday, May 30, 2018
The Fountain Theatre has been awarded a 2018 grant in the amount of $20,000 from The Shubert Foundation to support the general operating of the organization. The Shubert Foundation pro…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 12:18PMTuesday, May 15, 2018
by Dionna Michelle Daniel “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.” This sentence has stuck with me since the first time I read Claudia Rankine’s book, …
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