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In a watershed moment for LA arts, Snehal Desai becomes 1st person of color to lead Center Theatre Group

LOS ANGELES — Center Theatre Group announced Friday that it has appointed Snehal Desai artistic director, filling the role vacated by Michael Ritchie in 2021. The producing artistic director of East West Players since 2016, Desai is the first artistic director of color in CTG’s history.

Los Angeles Times · Apr 14, 2023

Constance Wu and Finn Wittrock bring horror, and audiences, to live LA theater with '2:22'

LOS ANGELES — Horror has been key in helping the film box office recover from a pandemic-induced torpor. The genre, it turns out, might be just as good for live theater.

Los Angeles Times · Nov 17, 2022

'We're driving straight up the cliff': Theater is back, but recovery proves perilous

LOS ANGELES — Throughout the first long, agonizing year of the pandemic, leaders in the performing arts united around the hope of safely reopening and resuming live performances. If only that could eventually happen, the reasoning went, things would turn out all right.

Los Angeles Times · May 12, 2022