Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Snehal Desai

I Think About How We Can Use All the Tools at Our Disposal

Snehal Desai is the Center Theatre Group’s artistic director. He previously served as the producing artistic director of East West Players. Before taking part in the Zócalo, Thomas Mann House, and L.A. Review of Books program “How Should Arts Institutions Navigate the Culture Wars?”—part of the two-day conference “Arts in Times of Crises”—Desai joined us in the green room to talk about his one-man show, same-sex intimacy in India, and what he misses about Atlanta.

Staging a Life-Changing Project in El Salvador with Canada’s Stratford Festival

A Cultural Partnership Is Reviving Suchitoto, a Beautiful, Historic Town in a Troubled Nation

This piece was adapted from an interview with Antoni Cimolino, Edward Daranyi, and Mark Smith of Canada’s Stratford Festival.

The Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, is a 64-year-old Canadian repertory theater …