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Before her internship at Center Theatre Group, Talin Abadian didn’t know careers in dramaturgy existed; now, she’s dramaturging a play on the refugee crisis at California State University, Northridge, where she is a graduate student in theatre. Before her internship, Jocelyn Lopez had never traveled on her own; inspired by a Center Theatre Grou...

How Do You Make An Arts Professional?

As a writer you write in isolation, but theatre is all about community, playwright Deborah Stein told a group of donors on November 30, 2017 at a special Artists and Educators Forum event at the home of Jody and David Lippman. She went on to explain the value of Center Theatre Group’s L.A. Writers’ Workshop, which creates a community for a grou...

Donors Go Inside the L.A. Writers' Workshop

The best piece of advice outgoing DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg ever received came courtesy of actor and philanthropist Kirk Douglas: You haven’t learned how to live until you learn how to give. Douglas and his wife, Anne, have been giving to causes and institutions across Los Angeles for decades, and to Center Theatre Group since t...

Kirk Douglas Learned to Live by Learning how to Give

On July 18, 2016, Center Theatre Group Board of Directors Member Manuela Cerri Goren and her husband James Goren opened their incredible home to donors and theatre artists for an enchanting evening. Donors at the Benefactor level and above and their guests entered the event through a stony walkway to find a clear blue pool, vibrant yellow canopies,...

‘Grey Gardens’ Guests Delight Donors

Watching theatre is one thing. Taking a performance to the next level and truly interacting with it is another. Anyone attending the Young Producers Circle Disgraced event on June 24, 2016 definitely partook in the latter....

Young Producers Circle Attends (and Interacts with) ‘Disgraced’

On June 8, 2016, Center Theatre Group donors at the Fan level and above were treated to an Up Close Dialogue between Producing Director Douglas C. Baker and Broadway theatre veteran and The Secret Life of the American Musical author Jack Viertel. Viertel, whose recent New York Times bestseller is subtitled “How Broadway Shows Are Built,” is cur...

Broadway Veteran Jack Viertel Delights Donors

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

Tony Amendola is a partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, a member of Center Theatre Group’s Corporate Circle. He represents private sector and nonprofit employers in all areas of labor and employment law. He is also an advisor to Center Theatre Group’s Human Resources department....

A Century of Supporting Creative Expression in L.A.

Just days after David Bowie’s death, Manuela Goren, a Center Theatre Group donor, and Diana Buckhantz, a member of the Board of Directors, traveled to downtown Manhattan to attend the New York Theater Workshop production of Lazarus. Written by Bowie with Enda Walsh and directed by Ivo van Hove, Lazarus is the sequel to The Man Who Fell to the Ear...

Center Theatre Group Donors Attend David Bowie's 'Lazarus'

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

On Friday, May 29, The Fringe @ CTG attended the first performance of Matilda The Musical in Los Angeles at the Ahmanson Theatre. Afterward, Fringe guests were invited to the Ahmanson Founders Room, where they were joined by Cassie Silva, who plays Mrs. Wormwood, Matilda’s mother, and Justin Packard, who plays the Escape Artist....

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