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The Fountain's

2008 Season

TheatreMania Article

Playbill Article

President Roosevelt

Rabbi Stephen Wise

Rabbis March on Washington, 1943

July 3 - August 24, 2008

WEST COAST PREMIERE

Nominated for the 2007 New York Drama Desk Award for

Best New Play

THE ACCOMPLICES
a true story

by Bernard Weinraub

directed by Deborah LaVine

(director of A Shayna Maidel and Kindertransport)

The true story of Hillel Kook (aka Peter Bergson).

The FBI spied on him.

The State Department wanted him deported.

Jewish leaders opposed his activities.

Yet despite this intense and sometimes frenzied opposition, firebrand activist Hillel Kook (known as Peter Bergson) succeeded in shattering the wall of silence that surrounded news about Hitler's annihilation of the Jews.

During World War II, Kook spearheaded an extraordinary campaign of public rallies, hard-hitting newspaper advertisements, and lobbying in Congress that forced America to confront the Holocaust. Whether by mobilizing hundreds of rabbis to march on Washington, or by recruiting Hollywood celebrities such as Ben Hecht, Edward G. Robinson, Paul Muni, and Eddie Cantor to support the Jewish cause, Kook displayed an uncanny ability to take a long-ignored issue and propel it to the forefront of public interest.

Veteran NY Times reporter Bernard Weinraub writes a blistering account of the fight to save millions, and the conspiracy of silence and inaction that continues to haunt us to this day.

Wikipedia Entry on

Hillel Kook/Peter Bergson

Previews begin July 3

Opens July 12

Closes August 24

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Romare Bearden

September 11 - November 2, 2008

From the creative team of

JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE,

and one of America's greatest playwrights,

winner of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize, we're proud to present

the Los Angeles Revival of:

AUGUST WILSON'S

GEM OF THE OCEAN

directed by

Ben Bradley

(OVATION Award Best Director and Best Production,

Joe Turner's Come and Gone)

Set in 1904 at 1839 Wylie Avenue in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania's Hill District, Aunt Esther, the drama's 287-year-old fiery matriarch, welcomes into her home Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union Armym, and Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama searching for a new life. Citizen Barlow is in search of redemption. Aunt Esther is not too old to practice healing; she guides him on a soaring, lyrical journey of spiritual awakening to the City of Bones.

Wikipedia Entry on August Wilson

Previews begin September 11

Opens September 19

Closes November 2

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November/December 2008

(dates to be announced)

WORLD PREMIERE

Don Juan in L.A.
An Erotic Flamenco Fantasia

created by

Deborah Lawlor

starring

Timo Nunez

Timo Nunez Website

A contemporary version of the Don Juan story set to the passionate rhythms of Flamenco in a nightclub in Los Angeles, where Don Juan is the town's hottest DJ.

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