Tuesday, 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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Tuesday, May 8, 2018
by Stephen Sachs Every Monday night at the Fountain Theatre is Pay What You Want Night. One night each week, ticket payment is optional. We launched it last year as an offering to our commun…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 01:19PMMonday, May 7, 2018
The Fountain Theatre is very pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant from the David Lee Foundation in the amount of $32,000 to support and enhance the budget of the world premi…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 12:23PMMonday, April 30, 2018
The Fountain Theatre is now accepting submissions from hearing actors for the world premiere of Arrival & Departure, a funny and poignant new play written and directed by Stephen Sachs t…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 01:49PMFriday, April 27, 2018
Thursday, April 26, 2018
By Catherine Womack “It’s beach week, baby!” A tall, handsome college athlete cracks open a cold beer as he flops onto a worn sofa. The semester is over for Shane and his friends, and…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 12:14PMWednesday, April 25, 2018
by Sean P. Thomas The stage is set for a collection of Los Angeles’ creative minds to get a moment in the spotlight. Even better, those moments will take place in Downtown, and the perform…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 12:14PMTuesday, April 24, 2018
by Dionna Michelle Daniel Our Fountain Family is at the core of our theatre. This week, I had the privilege to sit down with a few of our patrons before the Monday night performance of our h…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 11:20AMMonday, April 16, 2018
Actresses Amy Pietz, Victoria Platt, Suanne Spoke, and Sabina Zuniga Varela will combine their versatile talents to play the same lead character in a special reading of Natural Shocks, Laure…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 10:36AMFriday, April 13, 2018
Director Simon Levy and actors Sam Mandel and Dor Gvirtsman enjoyed chatting about our smash hit production of The Chosen with talk radio/TV host Deborah Kobylt on Wednesday. The acclaimed s…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 12:16PMTuesday, April 10, 2018
Know a college student looking for a paying job this summer? A young person who likes theatre and enjoys working in a crazy, eccentric theatrical environment? Search no further. The Fountain…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 12:33PMFriday, April 6, 2018
The Fountain Theatre’s critically acclaimed, award-winning stage adaptation of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric has been chosen as the centerpiece of Our L.A. Voices, a new f…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 12:13PMWednesday, April 4, 2018
By Dionna Michelle Daniel Last week’s blog post, I asked our Fountain friends and community to send in their own stories about how confronting “The Other” led to a deeper understandi…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 01:14PMTuesday, April 3, 2018
After taking a brief hiatus for the Passover holidays, our smash hit production of Chaim Potok’s The Chosen restarts its critically acclaimed run this weekend. With every performance s…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 01:20PMMonday, April 2, 2018
The Fountain Theatre continues to expand and broaden its Board of Directors with an elite team of highly-regarded and successful business, arts, legal and financial professionals. The Founta…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 11:05AMSunday, April 1, 2018
Twenty-eight years ago today, on April 1st, 1990, co-founders Deborah Lawlor and Stephen Sachs opened the doors of the Fountain Theatre. What began as a dream and an empty building on Founta…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 04:19PMWednesday, March 28, 2018
by Dionna Michelle Daniel Several summers ago, I had one of the strangest morning commute experiences of my life. I was working as a spoken word mentor to youth at Authoring Action Organizat…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 12:06PMTuesday, March 27, 2018
by Sabina Berman We can imagine. The tribe launches small stones to bring down birds from the air, when a gigantic mammoth bursts in on the scene and ROARS –and at the same time, a tiny hu…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 12:10PMMonday, March 26, 2018
Steven B. Green in ‘The Chosen’ at the Fountain Theatre (photo by Ed Kreiger) The Fountain Theatre’s hit production of Chaim Potok’s The Chosen has been extended a se…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 07:21PMWednesday, March 21, 2018
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 R…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 01:02PMTuesday, March 20, 2018
The Fountain Theatre’s critically acclaimed and award-winning stage adaptation of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric has been chosen as the centerpiece of a new festiva…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 11:52AMThursday, March 15, 2018
by Stephen Sachs In quantum mechanics, the observer effect is the theory that observing a particle changes the particle being observed. Werner Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle de…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 02:20PMWednesday, March 7, 2018
by Stephen Sachs Eight words. A statement declared in eight simple words jumped out at me in a feature story on playwright Tony Kushner in today’s New York Times. The eight words were …
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 01:37PMFriday, March 2, 2018
It’s Oscar Weekend. The Academy Awards are this Sunday night. Critics and fans are placing their bets, handicapping the nominees, calculating the winners. Fancy gowns and tuxedos have …
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 09:25PMSaturday, February 24, 2018
By Linnea Sage Name: Sam Mandel Side hustle: Chief operating officer of the Ketamine Clinics of Los Angeles Years acting: 13 Favorite acting credits/opportunities: I had a blast working wi…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 12:25PMWednesday, February 21, 2018
The Fountain Theatre is delighted to welcome attorney Lois R. Fishman to its Board of Directors. Lois brings her sharp intelligence, wealth of experience, and passion for theatre to our grow…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 10:22AMTuesday, February 20, 2018
In the wake of nearly two-dozen rave reviews and six weeks of sold-out houses, the Fountain Theatre has extended its run of The Chosen and increased performances from three to four per w…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 06:06PMFriday, February 16, 2018
The Fountain Theatre is pleased to welcome veteran theater producer and public relations consultant Diana Buckhantz to its Board of Directors. Diana Buckhantz recently produced the criticall…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 05:49PMWednesday, February 14, 2018
by Stephen Sachs She called to take me up on my offer. I struggled to place who she was. A young woman from my Playwrighting Group in Hollywood willing to volunteer to usher at my theatre in…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 11:51AMSunday, February 11, 2018
What’s it like to grow up in a house where your father is the author of a beloved internationally best-selling novel dubbed “the Jewish Catcher in the Rye” that is taught …
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