It's true that one can almost miss the Fountain Theatre, a modest building in a funky neighborhood, and that, as Charles McNulty writes, from certain angles it looks like a shambling house ready to be gutted. Yet anytime I've ventured to the Fountain, I've left feeling bullish on small theater in L.A. One factor in the Fountain's success as one of L.A.'s top small theaters, McNulty writes, is artistic director Stephen Sachs. As the theater's 25th anniversary approaches, McNulty sat down with Sachs to talk about how one builds a theater into a place like the Fountain, how to maintain it and what is the Fountain of tomorrow.
Essential Arts and Culture: The view from the West End, Fountain Avenue and Renaissance Rome
