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Roses are blooming, chocolates are sweet, and love is the factor that makes it complete. Valentine’s Day is this month, and the sugary scent of love encompasses all. With our rose-tinted shades on, we thought this would be the perfect opportunity to take a walk down memory lane and look at some of our favorite love-centric productions presented h...

A Rose-Tinted Stroll

Have you been dreaming of meeting friends at the theatre while you sip a glass of wine at your latest socially distanced virtual happy hour? Would your colleagues take you more seriously if you were sitting onstage at the Ahmanson as opposed to next to a pile of laundry (true, it’s clean, but they don’t know that) for your next important work m...

Have your Next Zoom Meeting at the Theatre

Longtime Center Theatre Group Associate Artistic Director Diane Rodriguez passed away on April 10, 2020 after a two-year battle with cancer. We’re mourning this tremendous loss, and also celebrating a warm, generous colleague with an unforgettable laugh, a nurturing producer and collaborator who shepherded the work of more than 75 artists to our...

Remembering Diane Rodriguez

Dear Center Theatre Group Patrons, We are truly in unprecedented times. The COVID-19 crisis is something we have never seen in our lifetime, in the world at large and in its implications for our theatre community.

Art Goes On. And So Do We.

How many adults in the United States today identify as trans? What’s the difference between gender identity and gender expression? What does cisgender mean? What’s the best way to find out a colleague, friend, or patron’s gender pronoun?

Building a More Inclusive Company with TransCanWork

The following letter is excerpted from Reflections, The Taper at Twenty, a publication produced by Center Theatre Group in recognition of the Mark Taper Forum’s 20th Anniversary. In this section, Spalding Gray reflects on his time developing Swimming to Cambodia through Taper, Too. Taper, Too launched in 1983 at the John Anson Ford Theatre in Hol...

Memories of the Taper Also

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

When was the last time you talked to a playwright? How about someone at Center Theatre Group who wasn’t helping you out with a ticket? Playwrights, patrons, and theatre company come together in some configuration every night that we operate, yet we rarely have a chance to engage in meaningful dialogues with one another.

Triple Play Puts Playwrights, Patrons, and Theatres in Conversation

Some of the greatest and most innovative playwrights in American theatre have written major new works commissioned by Center Theatre Group, from Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit and Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 to Rajiv Joseph’s Archduke. As we celebrate our 50TH Anniversary, we are committing ourselves to doing more to support the...

Center Theatre Group Joins Forces with Top Playwrights and Theatres

When Center Theatre Group began at The Music Center in 1967, and Founding Artistic Director Gordon Davidson oversaw our works at the Mark Taper Forum, Tony Award®-winning producer Elliot Martin, another early leader of the organization, led the Ahmanson Theatre’s programming. Martin, who passed away on May 21, 2017, began Center Theatre Group’...

Our Theatre: Faces of the Future