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

Since 2003, Brighton, England-based Tim Crouch and his collaborators have been making theatre that defies description, convention, and expectations—and Adler & Gibb, playing the Kirk Douglas Theatre through January 29, 2017, is no exception. Crouch wrote, co-directed, and acts in the production; before he became a theatre maker, he was an act...

Tim Crouch Explains Himself (Kind of)

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’

2016/17 is a season of firsts at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. The 13th season at our space in Downtown Culver City is jam-packed with five World premieres, one American premiere, and our inaugural Block Party. It is also a season that reflects the diverse and innovative ways regional theatres like Center Theatre Group commission new work, collaborate...

Raising Collaboration to an Artform