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The Art of Teaching Theatre: Endings and Rituals

Throughout the school year, we are asking Los Angeles educators for their most inspiring and essential ideas for teaching and integrating theatre in the classroom. If you’re a local educator with a passionate and innovative approach to working with students or a self-growth strategy to share with colleagues, pitch your blog idea to Education@Ce...

The Art of Teaching Theatre: Endings and Rituals

August Wilson's Historic Cycle Touches the Future

Alone on the Mark Taper Forum stage one evening in early March, Philip Patrick Bucknor performed an excerpt from August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. He finished and … silence. Then, explosive, roaring applause. It was a dual accolade that would be cherished by actors far more experienced than Bucknor, a high school senior, and it...

August Wilson's Historic Cycle Touches the Future

The Rock Critic’s Journey

“The first Mistake of Art is to assume that it’s serious” – Lester Bangs

From "Freed-Man" to Free: The Distance of the Journey

This article was originally written by Lynell George for the program for the production of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone directed by Phylicia Rashad at the Mark Taper Forum in spring 2013. The below post is an excerpted version of the original article. Center Theatre Group's Los Angeles National Finalists of the August Wilson Monologue Compet...

Bid Whist

In Immediate Family, emotions boil to a crisis point over a game of cards. The Bryants sit down to play Bid Whist as an alternative to arguing. At first, the trash-talking is done in good fun and with love. As the game progresses — although the words they use are about the game — it starts to get personal. They end up attacking and ganging...

Blind Spots, Bias, and Bigotry

We all have biases, and often without being aware of it. Unconscious prejudices, while they aren’t as combative as out-right bigotry, become blind spots that take away our ability to truly see those around us, to recognize and respect them as individuals.