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A Bridge to Boyle Heights

The walk across the First Street bridge from Boyle Heights into Downtown Los Angeles takes mere minutes, but for families juggling the many working parts of their busy lives, crossing that river may feel like crossing an ocean.

A Bridge to Boyle Heights

Courtney Love and Todd Almond Rock Out for Donors

Rock ’n’ roll and musical theatre, Kansas City and Los Angeles, the Pacific Palisades and “Malibu,” and Center Theatre Group donors and artists came together for an unforgettable evening under a 100-plus-year-old oak tree on a Saturday night this fall. The occasion: a CTG benefit to celebrate and support the opening of Todd Almond’s Kansa...

Courtney Love and Todd Almond Rock Out for Donors

Puppets and Polyester and Masks - Oh My!

Center Theatre Group’s Costume Shop team has dressed a caged tiger and a future American president, a royal court and time-traveling ghosts. But they’ve never done anything quite like the costumes designed by Ingrid Ferrin for Popol Vuh: Heart of Heaven. Popol Vuh was a months-long collaboration of CTG, El Teatro Campesino, and Boyle Heights co...

Puppets and Polyester and Masks - Oh My!

CTG Donor George Takei Takes Broadway

George Takei has been part of the Center Theatre Group family of donors for decades, supporting productions as an Artistic Director’s Circle member along with his husband, Brad Takei, and participating in fundraisers and other donor events. In October 2012, Center Theatre Group donors had a chance to show their support for him in turn....

CTG Donor George Takei Takes Broadway

In the Community: Leimert Park is Excited About Cultural Exchange

After I started my work as the Leimert Park community liaison for Center Theatre Group’s Through the Looking Glass, I quickly learned that people were excited to be involved in a project that could help dispel myths about their South Los Angeles neighborhood—and the people who dwell there. They were also clearly excited to learn about the...

In the Community: Connecting Boyle Heights Residents to ‘Popol Vuh: Heart of Heaven’

When I first got hired to be a community liaison for Center Theatre Group’s Popol Vuh: Heart of Heaven project in collaboration with El Teatro Campesino, I Googled “liaison.” I had heard the word before, but I wanted to know what it meant and what my job would entail. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a “liaison” is “a p...