The West Hollywood Musical [working title]

Original Book by Tom Jacobson
Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma
Lyrics by Shishir Kurup

Co-Directed by Michael John Garcés and Mark Valdez

West Hollywood, 1984. What happens when residents in a little urban pocket in western L.A. decide to band together in their quest for community, sanctuary and rent control? E. Pluribus Chaos!

The West Hollywood Musical [working title] follows the story of four UCLA friends who became pioneers of their generation by knocking down doors and uniting ex-Soviet immigrants, GLBTQ activists, and senior citizens in establishing West Hollywood as The Creative City…making it the vibrant cultural, artistic, and political hub it is today, more than 25 years later.

Heartbreaking, scary, triumphant...and musical.

October 14 - November 7, 2010

Fiesta Hall, Plummer Park
377 Santa Monica Blvd
West Hollywood, CA 90046

Thank you to everybody who came out to Pacoima to support our seventh annual Institute Summer Residency production of

It's All Bueno

Written by Sigrid Gilmer
Directed by Juliette Carrillo

Informed and influenced by Pacoima stories and perspectives, past and present.

Created in collaboration with and support from Project Youth Green, Youth Speak Collective, Maclay Community Center, Boys and Girls Club of San Fernando Valley, Discovery Charter Preparatory School, First United Methodist Church of Pacoima & Project GRAD of Los Angeles.

July 29, 30, & 31, 2010 @ 8:30pm

Performed outdoors at the Project Youth Green community garden in Jessup Park.

Production photos by José Zárate.

The seventh annual Institute Summer Residency students, artists, and staff in Pacoima:

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 .