2016 | Center Theatre Group

Ask a Parisian what the greatest place on Earth is and you can be pretty sure of the answer you are likely to receive—and rightly so. Paris is special. Its boulevards and spirit have inspired artists of every cloth to create some of the world’s greatest works of art—including the creators of Amélie, A New Musical, which plays the Ahmanson Th...

Nine Times Paris Came to Broadway

Since our founding in 1967, Center Theatre Group has been sending shows to Broadway. Our very first World premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre, the musical The Happy Time from songwriting team John Kander and Fred Ebb, directed and choreographed by Gower Champion, and starring Robert Goulet and David Wayne, transferred to The Broadway Theatre, and rece...

From Center Theatre Group to Broadway

Most of Amélie, A New Musical (onstage at the Ahmanson Theatre December 4, 2016 – January 15, 2017) takes place in Montmartre, a neighborhood in Paris known as an artistic and bohemian enclave.

Montmartre

RED HOOK, BROOKLYN, CIRCA 1950. Since the 1800s, Red Hook has been a neighborhood of immigrants—first the Irish, then Germans, Norwegians, and now the Italians. There are no skyscrapers here. Residents have a clear view of the Statue of Liberty across the water, whose mighty presence first welcomed them to the United States.

A Snapshot of Red Hook, Brooklyn Circa 1950

In Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge, two young men, Marco and Rodolpho, attempt to make their mark in the land of the free. Originally from Sicily, Italy, these two dreamers trade orange groves and piazzas to spend nights sleeping on the floor of a cousin’s house and days working on the docks. What drove them to leave their homeland for a...

A 1950s Immigration Story in 21st-Century Los Angeles

Critics and audiences have lavished praise on the cast of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge, onstage at the Ahmanson Theatre through October 16, 2016. With a minimalistic set, spare costumes, hardly any props, and no intermission, this production focuses on the performances—as if taking on iconic roles in the American theatre weren’t dau...

Getting into Character for ‘A View From the Bridge’

Almost exactly 101 years after Arthur Miller’s birth, Center Theatre Group is thrilled to be bringing the work of one of America’s master playwrights back to our stages to open our 50TH Anniversary Season. Our history with Miller began in December 1972, our sixth season, with a highly successful production of The Crucible starring Charlton Hest...

Arthur Miller Wows Center Theatre Group Audiences Once Again

On July 18, 2016, Center Theatre Group Board of Directors Member Manuela Cerri Goren and her husband James Goren opened their incredible home to donors and theatre artists for an enchanting evening. Donors at the Benefactor level and above and their guests entered the event through a stony walkway to find a clear blue pool, vibrant yellow canopies,...

‘Grey Gardens’ Guests Delight Donors

The name “Ivo van Hove” doesn’t flow off the tongues of Angelenos yet—but it will soon. (For the record, it’s pronounced “EE-vo van HOE-va.”) The 57-year old Belgian director of A View From the Bridge, which plays the Ahmanson Theatre September 7 – October 16, 2016, has been called avant-garde, minimalistic, provocative, and groundb...

Meet Ivo van Hove

The Beales of Grey Gardens have been the subject of two cult documentaries, an HBO film, countless op-eds, and even Grey Gardens—The Musical (which plays the Ahmanson Theatre through August 14, 2016). Images of the two famous (and fabulous) hermits from the 1975 documentary are so beloved that they have inspired everything from fashion designers...

The Edies After ‘Grey Gardens’

Madonna. Cher. Judy Garland. Liza Minnelli. "Little" and "Big" Edie Bouvier Beale. How did two reclusive former Long Island socialites become gay icons, and what does the LGBT community find so appealing about the women at the heart of Grey Gardens?

The Gay Icons of ‘Grey Gardens’