News: Onstage

Gay Berlin, Before Hitler Came to Power

Bent director Moisés Kaufman was surprised to discover that in the 1920s and early 1930s, Berlin was home to over 100 gay bars—far more than you’d find in any global city today. The first scenes of Bent take place there in 1934, just as that world came crashing down. Why was pre-World War II Berlin an epicenter of gay life, and what was t...

How ‘Bent’ Made Gay History

It was a passing reference to “pink triangles” in As Time Goes By, a 1976 play about a century of gay life, that caught Martin Sherman’s attention. As he put it recently, “It was one of those awful clichés—you could see the light bulb going off over my head.” That eureka moment led to Bent, Sherman’s path-breaking 1979 drama abo...

From "Freed-Man" to Free: The Distance of the Journey

This article was originally written by Lynell George for the program for the production of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone directed by Phylicia Rashad at the Mark Taper Forum in spring 2013. The below post is an excerpted version of the original article. Center Theatre Group's Los Angeles National Finalists of the August Wilson Monologue Compet...

Students create models of Chavez Ravine homes

Center Theatre Group supported 16 students from the Academy of Visual Arts at Culver City High School as they constructed models of the homes that were demolished in the historic neighborhoods now known as Chavez Ravine to make way for Dodger Stadium.  The students created these models, which were displayed at the home adjacen...

A Classic Opening of 'The Price'

Center Theatre Group donors celebrated legendary playwright Arthur Miller's The Price at a special opening night dinner, held Saturday, February 21, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.