Robey Theatre Company
Robey Theatre Company is a Los Angeles-based non-profit theatre company. History. Robey Theatre Company was founded in 1994 by Danny Glover and Ben Guillory. It takes its name from the pioneering Black actor and activist, Paul Robeson. Robey's mission is to explore and develop relevant, provocative, and innovative new plays written about the Black American experience, as well as to reinterpret established works. The rich culture and history of Black people is a potent, beautiful, sometimes tragic but always inspiring and illuminating reality. Robey offers an environment to support the telling of these stories . In 2006 Robey Theatre Company joined a multicultural consortium called the "Cultural Roundtable" at THE "NEW" LATC, created to bring multicultural theatre to audiences in the Los Angeles Theatre Center venues in downtown Los Angeles. Other performance groups belonging to the Cultural Roundtable include the Latino Theater Company, Playwrights' Arena, Culture Clash, Cedar Grove OnStage, American Indian Dance Theatre and the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television. Robey Theatre Company developed Bronzeville, with playwrights Tim Toyama and Aaron Woolfolk, presenting its world premiere in April 2009, in association with THE "NEW" LATC. In 2019, the Robey Theatre Company was  featured in Juney Smith's documentary "The Robeson Effect" which headlined at the San Francisco Black Film Festival and the Pan African Film Festival. Productions. Robey Theatre Company has collaborated with East West Players, Greenway Arts Alliance, Center Theatre Group at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, Against Type Theatre Company and THE NEW LATC