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Every time I meet a parent, without fail, I’m asked about programs for their children. It’s wonderful that parents and caretakers want their children to have access to more resources, but I remind them that many of our programs are for adults. Parents and caretakers work hard and deserve their own time to be creative, to socialize, to learn a n...

Designing an Experience for Parents

I’ve come to know that community encompasses more than just a group of people from a specific neighborhood, ethnicity, or age, and so, I’ve developed three “lenses” that I look through as I design community programs: community, Center Theatre Group, and artists. Each lens allows me to see who and what is represented or...

The Boyle Heights Chronicles: Use More Lenses, Find More Intersections

Samuel Beckett wrote plays and poetry, novels and short stories, criticism and nonfiction, TV scripts and radio teleplays. But despite coming of age alongside the art of cinema, he was not a filmmaker. With one notable—largely forgotten—exception: in 1964, seven years after the premiere of Endgame (which plays the Kirk Douglas Thea...

Samuel Beckett’s Adventure in ‘Film’

Tony Amendola is a partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, a member of Center Theatre Group’s Corporate Circle. He represents private sector and nonprofit employers in all areas of labor and employment law. He is also an advisor to Center Theatre Group’s Human Resources department....

A Century of Supporting Creative Expression in L.A.

On June 5, 1951, a Latino African-American surfer named Nick Gabaldon paddled 12 or 13 miles north from the Santa Monica-Venice border to the Malibu Pier—a journey that cost him his life. Gabaldon had taught himself to surf at the Ink Well, a section of beach at the end of the Santa Monica Pier reserved for African-Americans; he couldn&#...

Richard Montoya and Roger Guenveur Smith Excavate ‘American Venice’

Samuel Beckett once wrote, Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness So it might be a little odd to imagine him joking with a friend about translating his book Pour finir encore et autres foirades “Wet Fart” (It was published in English as Fizzles). However, even a cursory glance at Beckett’s life will reveal a ma...

Will the Real Samuel Beckett Please Stand Up?

We are halfway through the third year of programs in and around Boyle Heights as part of Center Theatre Group’s The Shop initiative and community programs, and each day I still learn something new, I meet someone who has never been to the theatre, and I find myself in awe of the creativity unleashed at a workshop, play reading, or costum...

What I've Learned Three Years In

The works of Samuel Beckett have left a lasting mark on our culture. At their best, they inspire existential contemplation, deep introspection, and a heartfelt interrogation of the human condition. But Beckett lovers are quick to point out that his work is meant to be quite funny (or at least as funny as contemplating existence can be). And as one...

Waiting for Elmo and the New York Critics with Parodies Inspired by Samuel Beckett

The path to becoming a medical doctor is long but direct: pre-med classes, then the MCAT exam, then medical school, then residency, then licensing—and finally, you're a fully fledged M.D. The road to a career in theatre, on the other hand, is full of forks, twists, and curves (some of them hairpin).

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