The RUSKIN GROUP THEATRE's mission
is to expose the community to the enlightening
experience that theater can be while providing
outreach programs to people in need through our “Healing
through the Arts” program. We accomplish
our goals by producing “world class” plays
in our theater and through our outreach work.
Over
the last three years the Ruskin Group Theatre has
produced some of the most critically acclaimed
productions on the west side. In 2004 we turned
our lobby into an art gallery so that we could
give some of the talented local artists in the
area there own solo shows. The Gallery produces
four solo shows per year. In August of 2006 we
are teaming up with the group Fostering
Imagination to teach a group of foster children
acting culminating in having them perform scenes
specially written for them in November. The Scenes
will include Ruskin Actors as a way to mentor these
children. We plan on continuing our critically
acclaimed. L.A Café plays which have been
dubbed the “Fastest Theater in Town” because
five short plays go from conception to execution
in just 10 1/2 hours.
The Café Plays have won praise from audiences and the press alike. For
example, the Los Angeles Times said that “audiences revel in the 10 1/2-hour
creation cycle of five one-act plays, bound by a common theme and locale – all
must take place in a café – but otherwise are as diverse as the
minds from which they spring.
