Take the journey…
Join Cornerstone Theater Company for an epic, year-long, ten-city, decade-in-the making, once-in-a-lifetime, world premiere theatrical road-trip across the greatest state in the nation! Journey with us from downtown Los Angeles to Arvin, Los Hills, Grayson & Westley, Pacoima, Fowler, East Salinas, Holtville, Eureka, San Francisco, then back to the L.A. Art’s District where it all began as each of these ten communities contributes to writing the play they inspire.
In California: The Tempest, “What’s past is prologue,” as playwright Alison Carey’s adaptation of The Tempest meets the challenges of the Golden State head-on in this traveling experience that conjures love, disaster, revenge, forgiveness & music (all that you would expect from Shakespeare!); mixed with earthquakes, drought, overdevelopment, food equity, state politics, fracking and immigration policy (all that you would expect from California!) as Prosper, Minerva, Caliban and Californians from across the state yearn to find the commonality in our diversity and imagine a healthy and inclusive future for California!
California: The Tempest is made possible in part by the Doris Day Charitable Foundation, Driscoll’s, the Ford Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the MAP Fund, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Surdna Foundation and Wilbur-Ellis.
