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A Q&A with Ian Barford

Ian Barford has originated four roles in Tracy Letts’ canon of plays: Little Charles in August: Osage County (which he continued on Broadway), Ray in Mary Page Marlowe, Mr. Carp in The Minutes, and Wheeler in Linda Vista, which he steps back into at the Taper January 9 – February 17, 2019....

A Q&A with Ian Barford

A Q&A with Captain Beverley Bass

Suddenly I’m in the cockpit / Suddenly everything’s changed … Suddenly there's nothing in between me and the sky. It’s impossible not to clap or pump your fist or cheer as Becky Gulsvig, who plays Beverley Bass in the national tour of Come From Away (at the Ahmanson November 28, 2018 – January 6, 2019), sings the story of how Bass became...

A Q&A with Captain Beverley Bass

Center Theatre Group Launches Apprenticeship Program

Let’s say you’ve fallen in love with theatre. You think you might want to make a career out of working behind the scenes. You may have some experience with university theatre productions; you may have some experience in a different kind of work setting. But you don’t know anyone who’s done a job like the one you think you want to do. What�...

Center Theatre Group Launches Apprenticeship Program

'Valley of the Heart' Community Conversations Revisit Japanese American Internment and Redress, and Envision a More United America

Amidst news of family separations and migrant caravans at the Mexico-United States border, Luis Valdez’s Valley of the Heart—onstage October 30 – December 9, 2018—could not have come to the Taper at a more pertinent moment.

'Valley of the Heart' Community Conversations Revisit Japanese American Internment and Redress, and Envision a More United America

The Making of 'Come From Away'

Twenty-eight hours after leaving Paris, France for Dallas, Texas, American Airlines Captain Beverley Bass and her passengers and crew disembarked in the Newfoundland, Canada town of Gander, population approximately 10,000. “Most airline pilots will spend their entire career knowing about Gander but never landing there,” recalled Bass of the loc...

The Making of 'Come From Away'

A Letter from Michael Ritchie: December 2018

Dear Community Member, This month we have two terrific productions onstage that—in very different ways—use the art of theatre to illuminate key moments in our American history.