Interact Theatre Company has been bringing entertaining and culturally enriching to Los Angeles for over three decades. ITC's programming includes stage productions, bi-weekly play readings, a play development lab at Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood, a month-long summer theatre camp for underserved youth (INTERPLAY) produced in partnership with Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs P
erforming Arts Division, and staged readings of classic and award-winning plays for UCLA School of Law and the Los Angeles Public Library's LA MADE cultural enrichment program. ITC is the recipient of 95 awards for excellence in theatre and film (168 nominations), including Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, Ovation, Stage Raw, Garland, LA Weekly, Telly, and NAACP Awards.
“One of the most exciting theatrical hamlets in the urban forest"... "One of L.A.’s true theatre successes." -- Los Angeles Times
"The best acting ensemble currently to be seen in Los Angeles." -- San Diego Jewish Journal
HISTORY
In January of 1989, actor and director Barry Heins invited fifteen friends – all experienced stage actors homesick for the New York theatrical community – to a weekly play reading group held in a vacant apartment in Sherman Oaks. Before long, a pool of forty actors were involved in readings that consisted of everything from classic plays to new plays and screenplays. The quality of the work attracted other theatre professionals eager to collaborate. Directors came to hear plays, as well as playwrights and screenwriters who arranged to hear these talented actors breathe life into their new scripts. Ten months later, the group became the exclusive tenants of Theatre Exchange in North Hollywood, and Interact was born. On May 1, 1992, the company formally incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit theater. Interact’s loyal and supportive audience has followed the company to various stages and venues in the San Fernando Valley, the Westside, and Downtown LA, enjoying more than forty full scale productions of plays and musicals since its founding.