Madre
by Yaelisa
Featuring:
Jason McGuire “El Rubio”, Guitar
Yaelisa, Director/Dancer
Juan Murube, Singer
Tiana Alvarez, Dancer
Vanessa Albalos, Dancer
Alexandra Rojo, Dancer
Tim Cummings (The Normal Heart, Daniel’s Husband, White Rabbit Red Rabbit) with VERY SPECIAL GUESTS discussing THE LIGHTNING PEOPLE PLAY. The new all-ages novel that explores and celebrates the majesty, impact, and magic of theatre.
Emmy-nominated Brian Quijada will fill our theatre with imagination, resilience, and heart this summer. In hosting his very own TV variety show, a young man learns about the beauty and flaws of the American dream through the eyes of his Salvadoran grandmother – magically portrayed as a hand puppet. A West Coast Premiere, DC Theatre Arts hailed it as “beautiful and deeply touching.”
FEATURING
Antonio Triana - Guitar / Director
Vanessa Albalos - Dancer
Fanny Ara - Dancer
Reyes Barrios - Dancer
Juan Murube - Singer
Timo Nunez - Dancer
Johnny Sandoval - Percussion
What Happened to Flamenco?
Fanny Ara - Dancer
Vahagni - Guitar
Vardan Ovsepian - Piano
Diego Alvarez - Percussion
Every night is opening night. The Fountain Theatre presents the Los Angeles premiere of White Rabbit Red Rabbit, the global sensation by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour that explores the restrictions, censorship and denial of individual choice faced under a harsh regime. In this theater experience like no other, a different actor will step onto the stage at every performance and be handed a script they’ve never seen before. No rehearsal, no director. Wild and utterly original, White Rabbit Red Rabbit is emotionally vulnerable at times, hilarious at others, and always pushing the boundaries of what it means to be present: spontaneous, playful, interactive and unpredictable. Join the Fountain team for a piece of baklava and a conversation in the upstairs café after every performance.
The Fountain Theatre presents a staged reading of
A LESSON FROM ALOES
featuring artists from Antaeus Theatre Company:
Tony Amendola, Gregg Daniel, Lily Knight
Directed by Elizabeth Swain
Dramaturg, Tara Moore
a discussion of Athol’s legacy will follow the reading
Forever Flamenco
Lágrimas y Amor
Tears & Love
by Reyes Barrios
Guitar: Antonio Triana
Cante: Reyes Barrios
Baile: Alex Rozzo
Baile: Ryan Rockmore
Baile: Rina Orellana
Cajon: Johnny Sandoval
Join us for the launch of a new program at the Fountain Theatre CONVERSATION IN ACTION! It’s become clear that many within our community want and need a place to gather, strategize, and organize! Join us for a night of poetry, music, and community building that will inspire us all to move our ideas into action! This interactive community building program will be led by our new artistic director Raymond O. Caldwell featuring performer Marty Austin Lamar.
June lives alone in a small farmhouse in Alabaster, Alabama, three years after a tornado killed her family. June is covered with scars from the catastrophe, with only her two goats, Weezy and Bib, as companions. Alice, a noted photographer from New York, has come to take pictures of June for a photo series on women with scars. But Alice has scars of her own and is desperately trying to outrun her pain. The sensual tension/attraction between June and Alice is immediate, but what they need from each other transcends anything physical. A play about healing and the power of women.
FEATURING
Dancers: Wendy Castellanos, Vanessa Acosta, Cristina Hall
Guitar: Antonio Triana
Percussion: Johnny Sandoval
Singers: Antonio de Jerez, Reyes Barrios
A good man in a bad system.
Daniel is a caring, warm-hearted middle-aged man who suddenly finds himself unable to work. Katie hopes for a fresh start for herself and her teenage daughter. Both must navigate the nightmarish unemployment and public housing system while clinging to their dignity and humanity. A powerful, timely, and poignant story of people coming together in the face of a Kafkaesque network that refuses to see them as human beings. U.S. Premiere of the stage adaptation based on the acclaimed, award-winning film by Ken Loach film (Palme d’Or and BAFTA awards).
Walking the Beat is a creative writing, theater and multi-media summer residency for local high schoolers and police officers. Together, students and officers create an original piece of theater, based on their own writings and reflections about the effect of gun violence personally, and within their communities.
