Posts Tagged ‘Fountain Theatre’
FATHERLAND
Monday, February 26th, 2024
Words like riveting and gut-wrenching only begin to describe Stephen Sachs’ ripped-from-the-headlines World Premiere docudrama Fatherland and the performances delivered at The Fountain Theatre by Los Angeles stage dynamo Ron Bottitta and remarkable L.A. newcomer Patrick Keleher.
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FREIGHT
Wednesday, November 29th, 2023
Audiences are flocking to the Fountain Theatre and with good reason. J. Alphonse Nicholson’s tour-de-force star turn as a man with five lives in Howard L. Craft’s off-Broadway-to-L.A. hit Freight is the stuff awards are made for.
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LAST SUMMER AT BLUEFISH COVE
Monday, July 24th, 2023
Last Summer At Bluefish Cove, Jane Chambers’ groundbreaking lesbian romantic dramedy, has returned to the theater that first introduced it to L.A. audiences 40 years ago in a superb outdoor revival that makes Fountain Theatre the place to be This Summer In Los Angeles.
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THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT
Tuesday, March 7th, 2023
A simple fact-finding assignment pits Gen Z against Gen X and accuracy against truth in The Lifespan Of A Fact, the very funny—and very discussion-prompting—latest from the Fountain Theatre.
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IF I FORGET
Saturday, July 30th, 2022
A long-simmering family feud fuels Steven Levinson’s hilarious and harrowing off-Broadway tragicomedy If I Forget, dazzlingly reconceived for the Fountain Theatre by director Jason Alexander.
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THE CHILDREN
Sunday, November 28th, 2021Its Best Play Tony nomination aside, I found Fountain Theatre’s Los Angeles Premiere of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children to be a depressing, upsetting downer.
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AN OCTOROON
Tuesday, June 29th, 2021
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins resurrects and reimagines a creaky pre-Civil War melodrama in his adventurous, genre-bending, meta-theatrical 2014 Obie Award winner An Octoroon, not only a long-awaited Fountain Theatre Los Angeles Premiere but a much-anticipated return to live, in-person play-going on the Fountain’s newly constructed open air stage.
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