California: The Tempest – Downtown Los Angeles
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California: The Tempest
Downtown Los Angeles
Cornerstone has been based in the downtown Arts District since 1999. Within a 5-block area of our Traction Avenue neighborhood, you can find ArtShare, Southern California Institute of Architecture, the Japanese Catholic Center, 5 Buddhist temples, eclectic galleries, dining establishments with diverse employees and clientele, longtime “pioneer” loft-dwellers, plenty of newcomers and a number of folks who live on the street. And artists of all kinds! Downtown Los Angeles is thriving, walk-able and very entertaining.
atTraction, 2008. Photo by Gary Leonard.
Performs June 18, 19 & 20, 2015
outdoors at Grand Park
200 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles CA 90012
(Directions and Parking Info)
8:00pm Curtain.
Admission is free. No reservations required.
For more information about the venue, visit GrandParkLA.org.
Local Community Partners include:
Grand Park
Los Angeles High School for the Arts
atTraction, 2008. Photo by Gary Leonard.
Downtown Los Angeles resident Elzie Alexander, who performed with Cornerstone in a previous production, is now part of the touring cast of California: The Tempest.
In 2008, Cornerstone collaborated with our own Arts District neighbors to create a new play called atTraction, written by Page Leong. It was directed by Michael John Garcés and included original music by Becky Dale. The stage for this play was the south-side of the 700 block of Traction Avenue. The audience sat on bleachers in the closed-off street while the play unfolded on the sidewalk, in the street, on rooftops and in the windows of the American Hotel. A Rear Window style mystery, the play followed a security guard’s convoluted assumptions and suspicions about all the local folks- artists, church goers, food servers, etc.—and their goings-on, all under the watchful eye of a giant Joel Bloom puppet commenting from Cornerstone’s rooftop. The play had a cast of 70 people—54 of whom were arts district residents—plus four dogs (also local!) and was attended by approximately 620 people.
atTraction, 2008. Photo by Gary Leonard.
