April

The library I grew up visiting doesn’t exist anymore. My refuge was Benjamin Franklin Library in Boyle Heights and that’s where I got lost in The Chronicles of Narnia, I indulged my teenage angst with The Chocolate War and was profoundly moved by the epic East of Eden. The library was a place to catch up on homework, do some research or be...

As part of Center Theatre Group’s The Shop project, dozens of Boyle Heights residents diligently attended their local library on Saturdays to learn skills and tips every wardrobe and costume designer knows to execute and maintain a show. They wowed at the detail in the costume designs and were excited to figure out via their new knowledge...

Center Theatre Group is very fortunate to have cultivated deep relationships with some of the nation’s preeminent playwrights. Playwrights like Luis Alfaro, Carla Ching, Jason Grote, Kinan Valdez, Sheila Callaghan, Dan O’Brien and David Adjmi. These playwrights have also agreed to lead Free Writing Workshops at The Shop as part of The Shop...

When you open the doors to a library you expect to see lots of books and people milling about from shelf-to-shelf or tapping away at computers. But, when you walk into a library in Boyle Heights you encounter something different, something surprising, what you find are mannequins dressed from head-to-toe in clothing you may have seen before, b...

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