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| Stages opened its first season in 1982 with an Ionesco Festival which featured the world premiere of the celebrated playwright´s Tales, along with Exercises de Conversation, The Ceremony and The King Dies. |
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| In 1986, founders Paul Verdier and Sonia Lloveras opened Café des Artistes providing their theatre patrons with the convenience of a French restaurant next door. |
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| In 1987 Stages took the Los Angeles Theatre community by storm with its Pavlovskyfest which featured three plays by Argentinean psychiatrist/actor/playwright Eduardo Pavlovsky. |
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| In October 1989, Stages presented the American premiere of 1789, an epic chronicle of the French Revolution, at the Las Palmas Theatre. Originally created by France´s Theatre du Soleil in 1970, Stages´ presentation of this work signified the first time that Ariane Mnouchkine allowed the work to be performed by another theatre. |
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| 1992 brought the celebration of Stages' 10th Anniversary which involved a year-long festival recognizing the arts and artists of the Americas, from Canada to Argentina. As the closing piece, Stages presented Eduardo Pavlovksy's Potestad performed in French by Jean-Louis Trintignant, at the Los Palmas Theatre in Hollywood. |
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| In 1993 Stages presented La Bęte, by American playwright David Hirson, at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre. The production gathered eight Drama-Logue Awards as well as the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Feature Performance. |
| In 1994 Stages Theatre Press
published its first work, Three Plays by Eduardo Pavlovsky. |
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| Since opening its doors in July of 1982, Stages Theatre Center, under the leadership of Artistic Director Paul Verdier, has repeatedly earned its reputation as "one of L.A.'s most consistently excellent theatres." |
| We invite you to join us and become a part of Stages' ongoing history . . . |