by Logan Myles Stacer For 31 years, the Fountain Theatre has proudly maintained its identity as Intimate and Excellent. With the opening this month of An Octoroon, we are doubling down on ou…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 11:40AMJoin us as we count down to commemorate Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the United States. On Saturday, June 19th — the date known as Juneteenth — come to the F…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 07:55PMby Terri Roberts The Memorial Day holiday may have been a three-day weekend for most, but at the Fountain Theatre the cast and crew of our Los Angeles premiere of An Octoroon were digging in…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 03:27PMby Terri Roberts Recently, actress Aleisha Force (Human Interest Story) stopped by the Fountain Theatre simply to pick up her belongings which had been locked in a dressing room since March …
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 06:47PMCasting is complete and rehearsals begin this week for the Los Angeles premiere of a radical, incendiary and subversively funny Obie award-winning play by MacArthur Foundation “Genius Gran…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 01:39PMby Terri Roberts …and we couldn’t be more excited! Recently, we shared video with you of our cleared-out parking lot getting re-paved. With that job completed, we were ready for the big,…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 12:03PMThe Fountain Theatre is now casting roles for its Los Angeles Premiere of the Obie Award-winning play, An Octoroon, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The production will launch the new Outdoor Stag…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 11:33AMby France-Luce Benson One of the many things I’ve desperately missed in this time of isolated lockdown is the beautiful ritual of sharing space with fellow writers to do what we love most …
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 02:36PMJOIN US IN THE CREATION OF NEW WORK THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF APRIL The Fountain Theatre is thrilled to participate in The Dramatists Guild’s annual End of Play Initiative. Throughout the mo…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 04:18PMby Stephen Sachs Theirs is a unique relationship unlike any I have witnessed in my thirty-five years of creating theater. They have been paired for decades. They have worked, travelled, and …
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 02:43PMOn St. Patrick’s Day, we raise a pint to Irish playwright Conor McPherson and our award-winning Los Angeles premiere of SHINING CITY.
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 07:59PMby France-Luce Benson On March 12, 2020, I flew from Los Angeles to Ft. Lauderdale to watch my 14-year-old niece, Shelby, act in her first play. The year prior we’d spent months, at her re…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 04:50PMOn March 12, 2020, we were forced to shut down our hit production of the world premiere of HUMAN INTEREST STORY due to the COVID pandemic. One year later, after an unimaginable period of clo…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 11:59PMThe Los Angeles premiere of An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins will inaugurate the new outdoor stage at the Fountain Theatre later this spring. Judith Moreland will direct. Winn…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 09:39AMHost Dayna Devon (“L.A. Unscripted“) profiles the Fountain Theatre and its exciting plans for an Outdoor Stage this summer as a game-changing response to COVID-19.
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 11:30AMby Terri Roberts In this final segment of our Conversations with Black Artists series, we talk with director Shirley Jo Finney, and actors Gilbert Glenn Brown and Theo Perkins. We are gratef…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 12:00PMCurious about the future of Los Angeles theatre and our game-changing Outdoor Stage? Artistic Director Stephen Sachs chats with theatre journalist Steven Leigh Morris.
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 10:36AMWe are so proud of Rabbi Anne Brener, author of “Mourning and Mitzvah” and a beloved member of our Fountain Theatre board of directors. She was the special guest on CNN’s “We Remembe…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 05:34PMBy Jona Yadidi During these challenging times, it is more important than ever to connect. In this new series of blog articles, Community Chats, we will talk with different community partners…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 08:20PMThe Fountain Theatre announces Fountain Voices, an innovative arts education initiative that utilizes the power of theater to promote compassion and acceptance of others. The program launch…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 05:14PMBy 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 assistan…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 10:15AMBy Terri Roberts Over the past three decades, the Fountain Theatre has worked with a vast array of wildly talented Black actors, directors, designers and more. Many of them have worked with …
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 06:43PMby France-Luce Benson I was on a crowded beach in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil celebrating the new year. Surrounded by beautiful, dancing, sweaty bodies I ran towards the ocean to jump the wave…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 11:10PMThe Fountain Theatre has received nine nominations for the 31st Annual Ovation Awards, including the prestigious category of Best Production of a Play for overall excellence. Last season, th…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 09:31PMThe Fountain Theatre will host “L.A. Theatre Pays Tribute to Ed Krieger,” a virtual memorial for longtime theater photographer Ed Krieger, on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021 at 2 p.m. PT. Krie…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 03:55PMThe Fountain Theatre has received approval from the City of Los Angeles to install a temporary outdoor stage for the purpose of presenting live performances and other events during the pande…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 01:29PMAs the Fountain Theatre continues to add public-spirited individuals to its nonprofit arts organization, it welcomes Rabbi Anne Brener to its board of directors. She is a longtime friend and…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 06:10PMThe Fountain Theatre is pleased to announce that actor, director and producer Theo Perkins has joined the board of directors. Perkins is known to Fountain audiences for his dazzling performa…
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