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Breaking Barriers: Phylicia Rashad

Throughout the United States, March is recognized as Women’s History Month, which highlights the contributions, inequalities, and experiences women have faced throughout history and contemporary society. It’s an important step in uplifting women of all backgrounds and ensuring their stories are amplified. This week, we are reflecting on the car...

Breaking Barriers: Phylicia Rashad

Crafting Belonging

When her performance at the University of Santa Cruz was canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Kristina Wong had no idea where to turn to. Suddenly, she went from bowing on stage in front of audiences to sheltering in her apartment in Koreatown, Los Angeles. As the world slammed to a halt, Wong couldn’t help but worry. Will somebody please think...

Crafting Belonging

Breaking Barriers: Marsha Norman

This article contains references to sexual harassment.Throughout the United States, March is recognized as Woman’s History Month, which highlights the contributions, inequalities, and experiences women have faced throughout history and contemporary society. It’s an important step in uplifting women of all backgrounds and ensuring their stories...

Breaking Barriers: Marsha Norman

The Black Artists of Yesterday, Today, and the Future

We continue our educational exploration for Black History Month, an annual observance that honors the important people and events in Black culture and the history of the United States. Though the month seeks to uplift Black joy, it also is a reminder of the work that must be done as a country to fight against systemic racism, police brutality, and...

The Black Artists of Yesterday, Today, and the Future

The Black Artists of Yesterday, Today, and the Future

This week, we are looking into the work of playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith as we continue our educational exploration for Black History Month, an annual observance that honors the important people and events in Black culture and the history of the United States. February is Black History Month, an annual observance that honors the importa...

The Black Artists of Yesterday, Today, and the Future

A Historic Season of Firsts

The writers of the 2022/2023 Season at the Mark Taper Forum convened to discuss their roles and work in a monumental season—the first in which each play was written by a woman-identifying, transgender, or nonbinary artist.

A Historic Season of Firsts

Finding Hope in Horror and Hauntings with Danny Robins

Danny Robins has been searching for ghosts his whole life. He has become an award-winning writer, broadcaster, and producer by finding and telling real-life ghost stories. His podcast series, The Battersea Poltergeist, became a worldwide phenomenon that combined drama and documentary that will now become a TV show with Blumhouse Productions, which...

Finding Hope in Horror and Hauntings with Danny Robins

L.A. Writers’ Workshop

The L.A. Writers’ Workshop Festival will take place over two weekends in September at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Since its inception in 2005, Center Theatre Group has fostered a cohort of playwrights to help them write new plays. For the first time in the history of the L.A. Writers’ Workshop, all ten playwrights from a single group will have th...

L.A. Writers’ Workshop

Meet Playwrights Aja Houston and Rosie Narasaki

Every year, Center Theatre Group commissions two to three playwrights as part of Community Partnerships to develop short plays that will be performed in public libraries across Boyle Heights. While the past few short plays have been transitioned onto an online platform (Community Stories) due to COVID-19, CTG is looking forward to the return of li...

Meet Playwrights Aja Houston and Rosie Narasaki

Michael Ritchie to Retire as Artistic Director on December 31, 2021

Ritchie’s Tenure as Only the Second Artistic Director of Los Angeles’ Largest Nonprofit Theatre Organization Will Have Spanned 17 Years

Michael Ritchie to Retire as Artistic Director on December 31, 2021

Meet the Playwrights Behind the Community Stories Project

As a direct response to the pandemic interrupting Center Theatre Group’s community programs such as our free workshops and library play reading series, Community Partnerships Director Jesus A. Reyes devised a virtual solution—the Community Stories project. “All in-person community programs have taken place at sites throughout Boyle Heights, b...

Meet the Playwrights Behind the Community Stories Project
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