The Fountain Theatre News

The Accomplices - The West Coast premiere of The Accomplices has been extended through September 14.

Nili Kook and Rebecca Kook, the widow and daughter of Hillel Kook, will attend the 2 pm matinee of The Accomplices on Sunday, August 3 and participate in a talk-back with the audience following the performance at The Fountain Theatre.

The previously-announced production schedule for the upcoming Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange's acclaimed play 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf' is being temporarily delayed, producers Whoopi Goldberg and DreamTeam Entertainment Group announced jointly today.

Nili Kook and Rebecca Kook, the widow and daughter of Hillel Kook, will attend the 2 pm matinee of The Accomplices on Sunday, August 3 and participate in a talk-back with the audience following the performance at The Fountain Theatre.

Whoopi Goldberg and DreamTeam Entertainment Group are pleased to announce that two-time Grammy Award winner India.Arie will make her Broadway stage debut this fall in a new, re-envisioned production of Ntozake Shange's acclaimed play, FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF.

Westport Country Playhouse (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director) will stage a masterful blend of comedy and drama, 'The Pavilion,' by Craig Wright, award-winning playwright and Emmy-nominated writer/producer of television's 'Lost,' 'Six Feet Under' and 'Dirty Sexy Money.' Directed by Chad Rabinovitz, Playhouse artistic associate, the production will run from May 13 through May 31.

Tony Award-winner Tonya Pinkins (Jelly's Last Jam, Caroline or Change) and Tracie Thoms (Broadway's Drowning Crow, TV's Cold Case) star in And Her Hair Went With Her, a tour de-force for two actors by Zina Camblin.

Tonya Pinkins and Tracie Thoms star in the Los Angeles production of The Fountain Theatre's And Her Hair Went With Her by Zina Camblin and directed by Diane Rodriguez

Joseph Ruskin and Jacqueline Schultz star in Israel Horovitz's humorous and poignant pas-de-deux, Park Your Car in Harvard Yard, at International City Theatre. Hope Alexander directs the four-week run at ICT's home in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center, May 2 through May 25. Low-priced previews begin April 29.

The Fountain Theatre is pleased to present four premieres and one revival in 2008.

Victory - the United States premiere of Athol Fugard's new play about the search for hope in the 'New South Africa' - has extended performances through March 23 at the Fountain Theatre

Local playwright Yussef El Guindi has been named ACT's 2008 New Play Award winner for his new work Language Rooms. ACT will present two staged readings, followed by post-play discussions with the playwright and director, FREE to the public, on March 7 & 8 at 7:30PM in its Bullitt Cabaret space.

The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles will present the West Coast premiere of The Accomplices, the first play written by former New York Times Hollywood correspondent Bernie Weinraub.

Fountain Theatre's co-artistic director Stephen Sachs will direct the U.S. premiere of Athol Fugard's play Victory opening the theatre's 19th Season on January 25th, starring Morlan Higgins, Lovensky Jean-Baptiste and Tinashe Kajese stars...

Playwright Stephen Sachs has adapted his original play, Sweet Nothing In My Ear, for a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie set to air on CBS in April.

Ars Nova presents, as part of the OUT LOUD series, a free reading of Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat, by Yussef El Guindi, directed by Joanna Settle. Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat on Monday, October 29 at 7 PM at Ars Nova

This week we talk to the director Stephen Sachs and actors, Morlan Higgins and William Dennis Hurley of the new play by Athrol Fugard, 'Exits and Entrances' which is now playing at Primary Stages.

The Drowsy Chaperone, Michael John LaChiusa and Matthew Bourne were among the winners of this year's Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards

The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has announced its nominations and special awards for excellence in Los Angeles and Orange County theatre for the year 2005. The 37th Annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards ceremony will take place Monday, March 13 at the El Portal Theatre, located at 5269 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood.