The Fountain Theatre board of directors has announced criteria in its national search to replace outgoing artistic director Stephen Sachs, who will retire at the end of 2024. Sachs has b…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 10:19AM“If you hold your hand closed, nothing good can come in. The open hand is blessed, for it gives in abundance, even as it receives.” –Bridget “Biddy” Mason Tonight, March 7, at 7pm,…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 02:20PMAfter 34 years as artistic director, Fountain Theatre co-founder Stephen Sachs has announced his retirement at the end of 2024. “The more than three decades spent launching, nurturing,…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 10:59AMA 19-year-old son faces the hardest day in his life when he testifies in federal court against his father after informing on him to the FBI. The Fountain Theatre presents the world premie…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 06:37PMThree hit productions of invigorating plays, transformative arts education programs, and the loss of two deeply significant Family members marked 2023 as a year we will always remember.
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 09:58AMThe Fountain Theatre is casting the lead role for its upcoming World Premiere of Fatherland, a new play conceived and directed by Artistic Director Stephen Sachs. The riveting and powerful d…
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SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 09:28AMThe Fountain Theatre will host a celebration to honor the memory of Shirley Jo Finney at the Kirk Douglas Theatre on Tuesday, Dec. 12 beginning at 7 p.m. A respected and beloved Los…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 04:19PMThe Fountain Theatre is seeking a Black actress with dance training or who moves well for the West Coast Premiere of FREIGHT: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green starring J. Alphonse Nichols…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 04:35PMThe Fountain Theatre and the Los Angeles theater community are mourning the death of celebrated director Shirley Jo Finney, who passed away on October 10, 2023 at the age of 74 following an …
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 06:19PMThe Fountain Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green, a timely and timeless theatrical journey written by Howard L. Craft, directed by Joseph…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 06:27PM“Critical hope is needed.” Walking the Beat, the Fountain Theatre’s innovative community-building program that sees cops and kids working together to create theater, presents two fr…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 05:28PMby Terri Roberts Fountain audiences know Tim Cummings as an impassioned actor who brings gritty depth and honesty to every role he undertakes. From his searing work as political activist Ned…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 10:01AMby Stephen Sachs “Isn’t that the theatre where they did Last Summer at Bluefish Cove?” It was 1990, and I heard that a lot. My business partner, Deborah Lawlor, and I had just acquired…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 10:08AMCheck out this short new video of Hannah Wolf, fabulous director of Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, as she discusses how love and friendship are core themes of this iconic, funny, and poignant…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 02:47PMWhile the cast of our summer production, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, have been hard at work rehearsing, Sets-to-Go has been hard at work building the incredible set designed by our fabulou…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 12:34PMSet in 1974, a group of queer women spend their summers together in a remote oceanfront town on Long Island. Their lesbian enclave is disrupted when Eva, a naïve straight woman recently sep…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 11:27AMWelcome to Bluefish Cove. The Fountain Theatre will transform the parking lot surrounding the set on its outdoor stage to create an oceanfront experience for its 40th-anniversary production …
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 06:43PMFountain Theatre co-founder Deborah Lawlor passed away Tuesday, May 2, at the age of 83. After graduating from Bennington College, Lawlor’s extraordinary career began in the ’60s as a da…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 03:52PMThe Fountain Theatre is now casting for all roles in its 40th Anniversary production of Jane Chambers’ landmark play, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove. The play ran for two sold-out years at t…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 10:19AMBy Terri Roberts Earlier this month, eager students and their chaperones from three area high schools visited the Fountain Theatre for specially arranged morning performances of our current …
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 12:26PMThis Thursday, March 16, the Fountain Theatre launches another new entry in its celebrated lineup of dance and music offerings. Intermezzo: Chamber Music at the Fountain is a bi-monthly seri…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 11:50AMFrance-Luce Benson has been honored by the Entertainment Community Fund (formerly the Actors Fund) with the 2023 Teaching Artist Award for Innovative Curriculum. France-Luce was recognized f…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 04:28PMThe following interview with The Lifespan of a Fact director Simon Levy originally appeared on BroadwayWorld.com on Feb. 7, 2023. Written by Gil Kaan. The Fountain Theatre west coast premie…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 08:09PMThe Fountain Theatre is pleased and honored to welcome award-winning journalist Erin Aubry Kaplan to its Board of Directors. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Ms. Kaplan brings a longtime pass…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 07:46PMby Thomas Floyd When Jeremy Kareken and David Murrell set out to adapt the 2012 book “The Lifespan of a Fact” for the Broadway stage, the longtime creative partners thought they were tac…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 04:12PMWhat happens when telling the truth gets in the way of a good story? The Fountain Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of the Broadway hit play, The Lifespan of a Fact, by Jeremy Kareken…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 10:41AM2022 was filled with acclaimed productions of plays, jazz concerts, and arts education programs. Take a look!
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 08:05PMby Stephen Sachs Lois Tandy may have been in her nineties, but she could be shrewd and mischievous. In the many years I knew her, and Lois was a Fountain friend and supporter for over a deca…
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