2016 | Center Theatre Group

Suzan-Lori Parks has been named one of Time magazine’s “100 Innovators for the Next New Wave.” She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and a MacArthur “Genius” award recipient. Her plays, screenplays, poems, and songs have garnered countless awards from organizations across the United States. Her most recent pl...

Creating Roads: a Conversation with Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks

Playwright Bathsheba Doran mined her own experiences in family, romance, and friendship to write The Mystery of Love & Sex, which plays the Mark Taper Forum through March 20, 2016. The play follows Charlotte and Jonny as they negotiate their long and complicated relationship with each other...and with Charlotte’s parents....

Bash into the Playwright Behind 'The Mystery of Love & Sex'

The American Civil War is the backdrop of Suzan-Lori Parks’ new play, Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), which plays the Mark Taper Forum April 5–May 15, 2016. But this tale of a slave who must decide whether to fight in the war on the side of the Confederacy also offers insight into racial dynamics and identity...

Conversations from the Classroom: Teaching Theatre Students About Access, Equity, and Inclusion

Steeped in anti-war and civil rights movements as a young man, Robert Egan was ﬁrst drawn to theatre because it could help combat the racial and political injustices of the social world in which he found himself. So he threw himself in. He was a Producing Director here at the Mark Taper Forum for 20 seasons. He launched the Taper’s New Work Fes...

A Road Map to Gentleness

Spend a two-show day at the Mark Taper Forum with The Christians choir member Gabi Rosamond. Join her for a tour of the show's backstage world.

A Two-Show Day at 'The Christians' with Gabi Rosamond

Bathsheba Doran’s The Mystery of Love & Sex, which plays the Mark Taper Forum from January 27 through March 6, 2016, begins with a dinner party thrown by two college students, Charlotte and Jonny, for Charlotte’s parents—a party teetering on disaster as Charlotte invites her parents to dine on undressed salad and unbuttered bread while se...

On Sex, Detective Fiction, Dinner Parties, and Edward Albee