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The Fountain Theatre is a non-profit producing organization established in 1990 by co-founders Deborah Culver and Stephen Sachs dedicated to providing a nurturing, creative home for multi-ethnic theatre and dance artists. Here we develop provocative new works or explore a unique vision of established plays that reflect the immediate concerns and cultural diversity of contemporary Los Angeles and the nation.

Upcoming Shows

ECO

ECO

Oct 2 – Oct 4, 2026

Following its successful world premiere at the Lincoln Park Theatre Festival, ECO comes to the Fountain Theatre for a limited engagement. Not every love story is about the end. Some are about what remains. ECO is an intimate and visually striking original play by Jorge Durán...

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Articles

Review: COME FROM AWAY at Roger Rocka's Dinner Theater

Review: COME FROM AWAY at Roger Rocka's Dinner Theater

by Edmund Whelan · September 30, 2026

When the US airspace shut down after the attacks of 9/11, what happened to the planes already on their way? Hit Broadway musical Come From Away, penned by Canadian composer-lyricist couple Irene Sankoff and David Hein, recounts the story.…

Review: SPIDER’S WEB at Group Rep At Lonny Chapman Theatre

Review: SPIDER’S WEB at Group Rep At Lonny Chapman Theatre

by Harker Jones · September 30, 2026

Agatha Christie is perhaps the most successful and prolific mystery writer in history. Nicknamed the Queen of Crime, she wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, introducing the world to household-name detectives like Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.…

Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Delights at La Mirada Theatre

Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Delights at La Mirada Theatre

by Michael Quintos · September 27, 2026

The brand new McCoy Rigby Entertainment production of the cheeky, macabre classic musical LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS—now on stage through October 11, 2026 at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts—is quite possibly the most eye-popping, delightfully entertaining iteration of the stage show yo…

Review: BEGIN AGAIN at the Old Globe Theatre

Review: BEGIN AGAIN at the Old Globe Theatre

by Evan Henerson · September 25, 2026

Director Loren Latarro’s production is smooth and lovely, ablaze in song and possessed of some choice bites of visual dazzle that give the production its dreaminess.…

Review: Krysta Rodriguez Makes OC Cabaret Debut at Segerstrom Center

Review: Krysta Rodriguez Makes OC Cabaret Debut at Segerstrom Center

by Michael Quintos · September 22, 2026

To kick-off the 2026-2027 run of their often Broadway-centric Cabaret Series, Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa tapped not only a proven Broadway star, but an OC native, too for a triumphant homecoming concert: Krysta Rodriguez. Marking her Center cabaret debut, Rodriguez performed to rap…

Review: THE VISIT at Pasadena Playhouse

Review: THE VISIT at Pasadena Playhouse

by Harker Jones · September 16, 2026

Tony winner Darko Tresnjak directs a nuanced and unsettling update of the 1956 Swiss play, adapted here by Maurice Valency.…

Review: World Premiere Musical WILD CHILD Debuts at Laguna Playhouse

Review: World Premiere Musical WILD CHILD Debuts at Laguna Playhouse

by Michael Quintos · September 15, 2026

Featuring book and lyrics by Dan Marshall and music by composer Julianne Wick Davis, WILD CHILD is an ambitious, sincerely earnest, and, at times, cleverly innovative new musical about a group of teenagers who are forced to join an outdoor wilderness therapy program where they must grapple with iden…

Past Shows

25 total · showing 1–10

Fly Me to the Sun

FeaturedFly Me to the Sun

Sep 5 – Oct 12, 2025

What do you get when you mix two young American brothers with one Salvadoran abuela, one late-night talk show, and one (if somewhat tarnished) American dream? The Fountain Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of Fly Me to the Sun , written by two-time Jeff Award-winner and...

White Rabbit Red Rabbit

White Rabbit Red Rabbit

May 11 – Jun 22, 2025

The Fountain Theatre presents 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...

Alabaster

Alabaster

Feb 14 – Mar 30, 2025

The Fountain Theatre presents the Los Angeles premiere of Alabaster , a funny and poignant new play about healing and the power of women. For three years since the death of her family in a tornado that left her covered in scars, June has been living and creating “outsider” art...

I, Daniel Blake

I, Daniel Blake

Oct 11 – Nov 24, 2024

The Fountain Theatre presents the U.S. premiere of a powerful, timely and poignant story about people coming together in the face of a Kafkaesque government bureaucracy that refuses to see them as human beings. Daniel is a caring, warm-hearted middle-aged man who suddenly finds...

Fatherland

Fatherland

Feb 25 – Mar 30, 2024

The Fountain Theatre presents the world premiere of a riveting true story. A 19-year-old faces the hardest day in his life when he testifies in federal court after informing the FBI of his father’s involvement in the Jan 6 attack on Capitol. Fast-moving, powerful, and...

Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green

Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green

Nov 9 – Dec 16, 2023

The Fountain Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of a timely and timeless theatrical journey. J. Alphonse Nicholson (Broadway's Tony award-winning A Soldier's Play ; co-star P-Valley on Starz; Netflix’s They Cloned Tyrone ) reprises his off-Broadway, tour-de-force star turn...

Last Summer at Bluefish Cove

Last Summer at Bluefish Cove

Jun 16 – Aug 27, 2023

Welcome to Bluefish Cove. The Fountain Theatre transforms the parking lot surrounding the set on its outdoor stage to create an oceanfront experience for its 40th anniversary production of the groundbreaking drama, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove by Jane Chambers. Set in 1974, a...

The Lifespan of a Fact

The Lifespan of a Fact

Feb 17 – Apr 2, 2023

What’s more important: writing the truth, or telling a good story? The Fountain Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of the Broadway hit play, The Lifespan of a Fact , by Jeremy Kareken , David Murrell and Gordon Farrell . Simon Levy directs for a February 18 opening, with...

Numbered Days

Numbered Days

Feb 14 – Feb 14, 2023

Two-time Emmy, Peabody and SAG award-winning actor Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad) stars as playwright Corey Madden in an audio theater production of Maddens moving and poetic memoir. The real-life love story of two passionate people who use the power of music and words to sustain them...

If I Forget

If I Forget

Jul 22 – Sep 10, 2022

The Fountain Theatre presents a political and deeply personal play about history, responsibility, and what were willing to sacrifice for a new beginning. Jason Alexander (Seinfeld) directs the Los Angeles premiere If I Forget by Tony Award-winning playwright Steven Levenson...

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