JOSEPH STERN / MATRIX THEATRE

Click on the links below to read speeches, articles, honors and interviews:

• "An Actors' Theatre - To Be or Not To Be"
  Show Magazine, early 1970s - date unknown
   
• "Audience Need Prodding, Says Stern"
  Vareity, 1976 - exact date unknown
   
• "TV, Stage Producer Joe Stern Contends the Best Actors Don't Get Exposure"
  Drama-Logue, July 27 - Aug. 2, 1979
   
• Theater Lights
  Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Jan. 15, 1980
  (Newspaper clipping about Actors For Themselves moving into the Matrix Theatre.)
   
• "Waiver Wars"
  Los Angeles Daily News, October 3, 1982
   
• "'Betrayal' Stays Put at Small Equity Waiver Theater"
  L.A. Times, October 14, 1982
   
• "Theaters Feel They're Left Out of Festivities"
  L.A. Times, May 1983
   
• excerpt from "Publisher's/Critics' Awards to Susan Dietz and Joseph Stern"
  Drama-Logue, Jan. 5-11, 1984
   
• "Stirring the Waiver Waters"
  Drama-Logue, Aug. 16-22, 1984
   
• "Don't Go to the Movies"
  L.A. Times, May 26, 1985 (advertisement)
   
• "The Pugnacious Conscience of L.A. Theater"
  L.A. Times Calendar, Sept. 3, 1989
   
• "A Theater Where the Actor Comes First"
  L.A. Times Calendar, Sept. 3, 1989
   
• excerpt from "1993: It's a Wrap"
  Los Angeles Reader, Dec. 31, 1993
   
• "Hometown Boy Makes Waves"
  L.A. Times Calendar, Jan. 9, 1994
   
• Theatre Notes: "Outspoken Men Win an Ovation"
  L.A. Times, Sunday, October 6, 1996
   
• Ovation Awards Brochure
  Ovation Awards, 1996
  At the 1996 Ovation Awards, Joseph Stern was honored alongside legendary playwright August Wilson.
   
• Theatre Notes: "Overheard at the Ovations"
  L.A. Times, 1996
   
• "The Flexibility of Matrix"
  Brntwd Magazine, Winter 1997
  (Newspaper clipping about Actors For Themselves moving into the Matrix Theatre.)
   
• "Honour Producer Joe Stern"
  L.A. Stage Magazine, July/August 2005
   
• "Joe Stern Launches New Multicultural Season"
  L.A. Stage Blog, April 6, 2009

Articles about the Matrix's revolutionary Double-Casting Policy:

• "Seeing Double"
  L.A. Times Calendar, Oct. 24, 1993
   
• "The Matrix Experiment"
  Los Angeles Daily News, March 7, 1994
   
• "Double Casting Coups: The Matrix Theater Company"
  TheaterWeek, July 8, 1996
   
• "Lynnda Ferguson & Susan Sullivan"
  BackStage West, 1997
   
• "A Matrix of Creativity"
  L.A. Times Calendar, April 19, 1998
   
• "Not Nothing"
  BackStage West, Feb. 17, 2000

Articles written by Joseph Stern, founder of the Matrix Theatre Company:

• "Equity Waiver: For Fun or Profit?"
  Letters to the Editor, L.A. Times Calendar, May 2, 1982
   
• "How Will the Actors in our History Shape our Destiny?"
  Theatre L.A., Volume 1 Issue 4, June/July 1983
   
• Ovation Awards Speech: "Fail Better"
  As reprinted in Theatre L.A. News, Volume 9 Issue 7, December 1996

Feature Articles about Associates of the Matrix Theater:

• "A Director's Attachment to a Play Set in Czechoslovakia"
  L.A. Times, July 28, 1989 (Article about director Lee Shallat and her direction of "Wenceslas Square")
   
• "He Knows How to Handle Evil"
  L.A. Times, 1995 (Article about actor/director Andrew J. Robinson)
   
• "No Greyhound, She's Finally Broken Away From the Pack"
  L.A. Times, April 8, 1995 (Article about actress Claudette Sutherland)
   
• "Pam Dawber Enters a New Stage With The Water Children at the Matrix"
  Drama-Logue, April 30, 1998 (Article about actress Pam Dawber)
   
• "Playing the Naked City"
  L.A. Times Calendar, May 31, 1998 (Article about director Lisa James)
   
• "He's Playing the Director"
  L.A. Times Calendar, May 13, 2001 (Article about actor/director Andrew J. Robinson)
   
• "Creating a Set That's in Character"
  L.A. Times Calendar, Sept. 23, 2001 (Article about set designer Victoria Profitt)