2019 | Center Theatre Group

It took 20 years—or 100 years, depending on how you count—for Indecent to get to Broadway. It all started in Poland in 1907, when a young Yiddish writer named Sholem Asch wrote a play called God of Vengeance. Or perhaps it all started in the stacks of the library at Yale Law School in the late 1990s, when a graduate drama student encountered th...

An Extraordinary Journey to Broadway and Beyond

There are many key moments in a play’s journey to the stage: the initial idea, the first draft, the first rehearsal, the opening night. In the midst of these typically are numerous workshops, formal and informal, where actors, the playwright, and perhaps a director read and listen to the play aloud to see how it works as a piece of theatre....

Forging Plays, Building Community

For five weeks this summer, every day will be Take Your Daughter to Work Day for one father on the Center Theatre Group staff. Producing Director Douglas C. Baker’s daughter, Blair Baker, is part of the company of The Play That Goes Wrong, which is onstage at the Ahmanson July 9 – August 11, 2019. Blair, a New York-based actor, is an understudy...

When Theatre Is the Family Business

There is a story we want to tell you.

There Is a Story We Want to Tell You

Center Theatre Group has a celebrated history of bringing playwright Samuel Beckett’s works to our stages over the last three decades, including a festival in 1990 that featured Play, Krapp’s Last Tape, and Happy Days. Upon that offering of the now legendary artist’s plays, Founding Artistic Director Gordon Davidson wrote, “Beckett’s play...

Are You Beckett Enough?

To say the Falsettos touring cast feels grateful to be part of the revival is an understatement. It might be more accurate to say it’s like a dream come true.

Meet the 'Tight-Knit' Family of 'Falsettos'

The revival of Falsettos (onstage at the Ahmanson Theatre April 16 – May 19, 2019) might never have come to be if it wasn’t for a chance meeting in Manhattan. At a benefit dinner at The Public Theater, director/writer James Lapine met producer and Jujamcyn Theaters President Jordan Roth. When Lapine asked him, What’s your bucket list show? Ro...

‘Welcome to Falsettoland’

In an era of increased focus on social inequity and strife, Antaeus Theatre Company’s production of Native Son—onstage at the Kirk Douglas Theatre April 18–28, 2019—delivers a powerful message of what is possible when society and our communities fail to acknowledge the flaws in the system....

"Hard Medicine to Take"

Empathy is everything…

Empathy is Everything

Antaeus Theatre Company has always been known as a “classical” theatre company, featuring playwrights such as Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Shaw. But a question that fascinates, confounds, and inspires us is: What is a "classic?"

What is a "Classic?"

You may be familiar with the saying change is the only constant in life. While we deal with small, everyday changes without much thought, how we deal with major changes that challenge what we know and believe are the struggles that keep us up at night, and feature prominently in countless powerful plays. Such is the case with Skylight Theatre Compa...

A British Play Set in the Netherlands Comes to Los Angeles