Theater on the Fringe

Stick with me.  This is a long quote from 25 years ago but it's really relevant right now. "Los Angeles has no great public monument which focuses attention and serves as a backdrop for a festival. Its disparate elements, its sprawl, its multiple cultures, all contribute to the city's central paradox - its identity lies in its diversity.  This reality combined with the fact that Los Angeles is essentially vehicular and Private rather than pedestrian and public, might lead one to believe the city is ill suited to host an arts festival..."