'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
A New Play Debuts in Boyle Heights A Tuesday afternoon in September found playwright and MacArthur Genius Luis Alfaro rewriting his newest work in an at once unlikely and completely appropriate setting: a Los Angeles public library parking lot in Boyle Heights. A New Play Debuts in Boyle Heights
Stitching Together Craft, Family, and Community in Boyle Heights On a Saturday morning in June, a multigenerational group of friends and family gathered around sewing machines and bolts of colorful fabrics at Center Theatre Group’s The Shop. Stitching Together Craft, Family, and Community in Boyle Heights
From Product Design to Props A peace pipe. A vial of arsenic. A mango-wheat beer. A necklace that can ward off evil spirits. An intricately carved jewelry box. From Product Design to Props
The Politics of Casting Why don’t we see more Asian Americans onscreen and onstage with accents that aren’t played for laughs? Is it OK for a Japanese actress to play Korean or Taiwanese? And why, if they live in New York City, don’t the characters on Friends have any friends who aren’t white? The Politics of Casting
Center Theatre Group Partners with East West Players on 'Soft Power' In 2018, Ahmanson audiences will experience Soft Power, a World premiere from theatrical titans David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) and Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home). Center Theatre Group Partners with East West Players on 'Soft Power'
Chisme y Queso In Spring of 2017, the bar Eastside Luv was transformed into a theatre. Inside the tiny Boyle Heights venue young crowds danced to 1980s pop, drank sangria, and gossiped in English and Spanish. It was quintessentially Los Angeles. It was Chisme y Queso. Chisme y Queso
Working in Community From 2012–2016, three of Southern California’s leading regional theatres programmed ambitious initiatives to engage local communities—primarily Latinx—they felt were underrepresented as patrons at their theatres. With funding from the James Irvine Foundation’s Exploring Engagement fund, all three companies experimented with partnerships... Working in Community
Gossip, Cheese, and Theatre in Boyle Heights Across the street from Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights, tucked tightly onto a corner, is a very small bar. And although it’s early on a Sunday evening, inside the very small bar is a very big party. Gossip, Cheese, and Theatre in Boyle Heights
Creating Connection Through Community Conversations “Los Angeles is a city where, in many ways, it is hard to connect with other human beings,” said Center Theatre Group Director of Social Strategy, Innovation and Impact Leslie Johnson. Creating Connection Through Community Conversations
The Local Theatre Movement When playwright and MacArthur “Genius” Luis Alfaro was a child, his mother would bring him to shows at the Ahmanson Theatre and Mark Taper Forum—but she would wait in the parking lot of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power while he sat in the audience, enraptured. Alfaro became an usher in 1979 and eventually became part of Center Th... The Local Theatre Movement
