Director

Join us for a West Coast Premiere, one-night-only Staged Reading and Conversation of this brilliant new play by Drew Fornarola (NY Times Critics' Pick STRAIGHT, Off-Broadway’s The Ghost of John McCain), brought to life by film, tv, and stage veterans Sal Viscuso (Father Flotsky on “Soap”, original The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, "M.A.S.H.", Spaceballs, recurring “Scandal”) and Jack Plotnick (Gods and Monsters, Broadway’s Disaster!, Space Station 76, cult hit Girls Will Be Girls, recurring “Grace and Frankie”). Khanisha Foster (Celebration Theatre’s acclaimed A New Brain, KCRep, Virginia Stage) returns to direct.

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Fauci and Kramer

Los Angeles LGBT Center

This groundbreaking drama changed the American theatre forever, breaking down barriers on and off stage. Each of the Youngers, a Black family, has a different view of how to spend their father’s life insurance settlement to better the family. Will they open a business, send Beneatha to medical school or move to an all-white suburb? Praised for its “vigor as well as veracity” by the New York Times, this masterpiece seeks answers to the still-relevant questions posed in Langston Hughes’ poem Harlem: What happens to a dream deferred?

A Raisin in the Sun

South Coast Repertory

A timely revival of the Finn & Lapine show about second chances and the urgency of art, Celebration Theatre brings us into the world of this queer musical of “captivating eccentricity” (New York Times) with an intimate experience of pathos, humor, and just a little bit of magic—to bring us back to life.

A New Brain

Janice’s parents are prominent activists fighting for the integration of public swimming pools in 1960s Kansas. As injustice penetrates the warm bubble of her childhood, Janice grows apart from her family and starts a new life far away. When she receives a call asking her to speak at a ceremony honoring her father, she must decide whether she’s ready to reckon with her political inheritance and a past she has tried to forget. A deeply moving story about justice, legacy, memory and the ultimate challenge of forgiveness. Learn more about the production: read the show program.

Director

Khanisha Foster

Events

Past events

Nov 2, 2024

Fauci and Kramer · Celebration Theatre

Oct 22 - Nov 12, 2023

A Raisin in the Sun · South Coast Repertory

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