Thank you to everyone for giving us packed houses at every performance of 3 Truths!

After four years, six plays, and over 150 community artists, the Justice Cycle closed with a bang...thank you for taking the journey with us, Los Angeles!

Written by NAOMI IIZUKA
Directed by MICHAEL JOHN GARCÉS
June 4-12 at California Plaza in downtown L.A.

Presented by Cornerstone Theater Company and Grand Performances, nationally-celebrated playwright Naomi IIzuka’s 3 Truths weaves together a sprawling cast of Angelenos from all walks of life all asking one question: What Is The Truth?

As L.A.’s landmark Hall of Justice stands in the distance, Cornerstone Theater Company transforms downtown’s California Plaza into a dramatic judicial arena where fates are decided and lives hang in the balance. As laws have the power to separate and confine us, we come together in our quest to uncover three truths: your truth, my truth, and the truth.

Directed by Michael John Garcés, this epic world premiere event is the culminating “bridge” show of Cornerstone’s Justice Cycle, a four-year multi-play exploration of how laws shape and disrupt communities. Immediately following each performance, audience members are invited to join in dialogue with L.A.’s important civic and cultural leaders as they come together to discuss urgent issues of justice facing our city and beyond. Check back here or at GrandPerformances.org for more information about all post-show civic dialogues.

Cornerstone Theater Company is partnering with Gilead Sciences to produce a collection of original short plays exploring how urban communities are living and dealing with HIV/AIDS.

The plays: Page Leong's In a Word , Sigrid Gilmer's Head Trip and The Brothers , and Peter Howard's Long Term are presented as staged readings in cities across the country in an evening of performance and conversation titled:

BEYOND THE DIAGNOSIS:
Real stories of those who are living and thriving in the most serious epidemic of our time

Beyond the Diagnosis has been presented in major cities across the country including Los Angeles, Houston, Detroit, Baltimore, Ft. Lauderdale, Jackson, Atlanta, Washington, D.C. and New York. With each location Cornerstone and Gilead bring this program to, the short plays are created in collaboration with that city's HIV-positive residents.

This collection of plays reflect the passions and challenges faced every day by the people living with HIV/AIDS in that particular city and the health professionals who treat them. These plays share real stories of patients, family members, healthcare providers, case managers and social workers dealing with HIV treatment in cities all across the country. Each performance features a combination of professional actors as well as community participants from those who are directly affected by HIV/AIDS in their city.

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Cornerstone's four-year Justice Cycle, a series of six world premiere plays designed around the question of how laws create and disrupt L.A.'s communities, came to a dramatic conclusion in early June. Check back here in the coming weeks as we unveil our 25th theatrical season and our next cycle of plays .

Cornerstone Theater Company and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) have formed a groundbreaking partnership in the creation of Teatro Jornalero Sin Fronteras, a traveling theater troupe made up entirely of day laborers in Los Angeles.

Teatro Jornalero Sin Fronteras (TJSF) features 12 to 15 day laborers who meet at Cornerstone to rehearse original short plays meant to educate and spotlight the struggles of living and working as a day laborer without documentation in L.A. Since November of 2008, the troupe has performed over 40 times at job centers and work sites all over greater Los Angeles, for more than 3,000 fellow day laborers

Read the Cornerstone blog for regular updates from TJSF director Ethan Sawyer or contact him directly at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Teatro Jornalero Sin Fronteras in the Press:

Articles in the L.A. Downtown News and the Christian Science Monitor.


Radio interview with TJSF members on KPFK 90.7 FM:

Clips of the troupe performing at the Van Nuys Job Center in Van Nuys, CA: