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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
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"Don't Go to the Movies"
L.A. Times, May 26, 1985 (advertisement)
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"The Pugnacious Conscience
of L.A. Theater"
L.A. Times Calendar, Sept. 3, 1989
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"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
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"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.)
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"Honour Producer Joe Stern"
L.A. Stage Magazine, July/August 2005
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"Joe
Stern Launches New Multicultural Season"
L.A. Stage Blog, April 6, 2009
Articles about the Matrix's revolutionary Double-Casting Policy:
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"Seeing Double"
L.A. Times Calendar, Oct. 24, 1993
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"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:
Feature Articles about Associates of the Matrix Theater:
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"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")
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"He Knows How to Handle Evil"
L.A. Times, 1995 (Article about actor/director
Andrew J. Robinson)
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"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)
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"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)
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