After 16 years on the road, the Echo Theater Company has found a home in Los Angeles’ Atwater Village neighborhood. The gypsy company’s settling down could be a boon for actors—particularly those staging solo shows. “I want to dedicate one night to all these people doing one-person stuff,” Chris Fields, the Echo’s artistic director, told Backstage. “It can be company members or not; I’m opening it up.” Katie Rubin’s “Why I Died, A Comedy!,” which opened Jan. 3, is the first solo show presented by the Echo. “I executive produced a run of this show at the Hudson Theatres that ran 18 shows, and during that run Chris came and saw the show and loved it,” said Rubin, who noted she’s splitting the box office with the Echo. Fields told her, “We want you to bring the show over [to the Atwater Village Theatre] when you’re done,” she said, and her...
- 1/8/2014
- backstage.com
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