2017 | Center Theatre Group

As 2017 begins, we’re officially celebrating Center Theatre Group’s 50th Anniversary. We’ll be spending much of the year looking ahead to the next 50 years of theatre in Los Angeles and beyond, but we’re also honoring our past. From January – May, each of our issues of Performances will feature a timeline of one decade in our history. We'...

Zoot Suits, Performance Artists, and 50 years of History

A slate of beloved movies are taking America’s stages by storm in 2017. Here at the Ahmanson Theatre through January 15, 2017, and on Broadway beginning in April, is Amélie, A New Musical. And Amélie and her Montmarte crew (as well as her beloved gnome) are in excellent company. Check out our list of new and upcoming musicals based on films....

The Movies to Musicals of 2017

On April 25, 2001, global cinema changed forever, and a new era began in French cinema with the release of Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain (called simply Amélie in the U.S., and the movie on which the new musical onstage at the Ahmanson Theatre through January 15, 2017 is based). Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet—who had previously directed...

The Cinematic Sensation that Was ‘Amélie’