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‘Miscast’ for a Very Good Cause

The Center Theatre Group Affiliates’ Angels’ Cabaret was an evening of surprises and laughter for the 270 donors, supporters, and friends who filled the ballroom at the Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel in Bel-Air on April 18, 2016.

‘Miscast’ for a Very Good Cause

Designing an Experience for Parents

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

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

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 what spaces are...

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

What I've Learned Three Years In

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 costume de...

What I've Learned Three Years In

Los Angeles Theatre's Next Generation

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).

Los Angeles Theatre's Next Generation

Two L.A. Communities Peer 'Through the Looking Glass'

Through the Looking Glass seeks to foster a dialogue between the communities of Montebello and Leimert Park by creating a play inspired by individual residents’ autobiographies—written not by themselves but by their counterparts in the other community. For seven months, Center Theatre Group and playwright and poet Jerry Quickley hosted workshop...

Two L.A. Communities Peer 'Through the Looking Glass'