All Stories About Center Theatre Group

Gordon Davidson: You Had to Love Him, and Very Often His Work Too

An enthusiast marked by youthful vigor and guilelessness, the Taper founder made great theatre in L.A. because he cared. He made us care too.

Lured to L.A. at the beginning of the regional theatre movement, he stayed and changed both.

Eight early-career theatre leaders will recieve grants to work with mentors at TCG member theatres.

New plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Quiara Alegria Hudes, David Henry Hwang, and Rajiv Joseph, as well as a revival of ‘Zoot Suit.’

Also included are new works by Stein | Holum Projects, Tim Crouch, Jon Robin Baitz, Ngozi Anyanwu, and three local companies.

The season will include Broadway productions, Fiasco Theater’s ‘Into the Woods,’ and the ‘Amelie’ musical.

The playwright’s work might deal with weighty subjects, but not so heavy that uplift is out of the question.

Whether telling her own story or others’, the playwright/performer brings her full presence and the truth of her imagination to the jam.

The longtime theatre writer for the LA Weekly and Stage Raw was already a local theatre leader; his new job just makes it official.

Writing a play about ancestors consumed by an atrocity became an unexpected passport to a homecoming.