Snehal Desai: At Last, a Roadmap for CTG
With a 7-show season at 2 of Center Theatre Group’s venues, the new artistic director is putting special focus on reviving the beloved, beleaguered Mark Taper Forum.
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With a 7-show season at 2 of Center Theatre Group’s venues, the new artistic director is putting special focus on reviving the beloved, beleaguered Mark Taper Forum.
With audiences and donations down by at least 20 percent, theatre leaders say the move was “unavoidable.”
Filling a major vacancy at the helm of the three-theatre L.A. company, Desai comes to the job after 7 years leading East West Players.
New plays at East West Players and People’s Light illuminate the collisions, and occasional solidarity, among people of color in a white-dominated culture.
How the historic Los Angeles company has stabilized both its mission and its finances.
While the pandemic has theatres reevaluating their programming, some are also making shifts toward a more humane working environment.
Tech will always be hard work, but it doesn’t have to be inhuman.
Seven new members join the board, and Kathryn M. Lipuma will serve as board chair.
How these leaders put their stamp on long-running theatres they inherited.
The director will take over for Tim Dang at the Los Angeles-based Asian-American theatre.