Over six years, we presented nine world premiere plays that explored our relationship to the most elemental of needs – hunger. We looked at food equity, urban and rural farming, food addiction, community gardens, and many others issues. Café Vida Written By Michael John Garcés Directed by Lisa Loomer A collaboration between Cornerstone, Homeboy Industries...
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For our 25th season, we committed to re-engaging with former community collaborators, deepening our exploration and impact in Los Angeles.
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This series of five world premiere plays examined how laws create and disrupt communities.
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Cornerstone commissioned a series of plays exploring the question: How does faith unite and divide us?
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For this two-year cycle we worked with four Los Angeles neighborhoods that had little in common but their initials: “B” and “H”.
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In January of 1992, the Company moves to Los Angeles to explore urban communities.
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Cornerstone begins as a traveling ensemble, living and working primarily in rural communities across the United States.
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Cornerstone's Institute Summer Residency is a four-week production experience that includes adults interested in learning our methodology into an on-site community collaboration.
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Commissioned collaborations have allowed Cornerstone to partner with other arts institutions across the country.
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Cornerstone’s work alone as an ensemble and in collaboration with guest artists allows us to exercise different creative muscles from our community collaborators.
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Cornerstone Festivals have allowed our professional colleagues and past participants from different communities to come together and create their own, original works on a central theme or topic.
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