Tag: Mark Taper Forum
Letters to the Editor
Bravo to Chronicle My August ’23 issue of the Larchmont Chronicle just arrived. I’m so impressed you’re continuing a heritage — that is, print journalism — that seems ever on the wane. I’ve read daily newspapers for decades and note, with dismay, their shift in editorial policy (those that remain) and their ever-accelerating demise. So, the Chronicle is really admirable in […]
An inconvenient truth at the on-pause Mark Taper Forum
“How did you go bankrupt?” Hemingway wrote that — although the quote is sometimes attributed to Fitzgerald — the answer was: “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Theaters fail the same way. As reported in the Los Angeles Times (6/20/23) and elsewhere, the Mark Taper Forum is “pausing” production due to financial difficulties. The Taper’s executives […]
How is the health of local legit theater? Challenges confront Center Theatre Group and others
Theaters large and small in Los Angeles are facing post-pandemic and other challenges. Very close by, on Santa Monica Boulevard west of Vine Street to about Hudson Avenue, is “Theatre Row” — a bustling center for theater performance and acting instruction for 50 years. The district received official City of Los Angeles designation in 2015. […]
