PRESS
Click on the links below to read speeches, articles, honors and interviews:
TV, Stage Producer Joe Stern Contends the Best Actors Don't Get Exposure
Drama-Logue, July 27 - Aug. 2, 1979
"The Flexibility of Matrix"
(Newspaper clipping about Actors For Themselves moving into the Matrix Theatre.)
The 1984 Olympic Arts Festival Negotiations
L.A. Times, Los Angeles Herald Examiner & Variety, Summer 1983
Julie Harris: A Premiere 'Bell' Enthralls AFT/Matrix Benefit
Drama-Logue, Nov. 17-23, 1983
Personal letter to Joseph Stern from playwright Charles Gordone
July 29, 1987 (during the production of Gordone's "No Place To Be Somebody")
Producer combines conscience, creativity
(Originally printed in the Ventura County (Calif.) Star-Free Press, Wed., Nov. 22, 1989)
Hometown Boy Makes Waves
(Originally printed in the L.A. Times Calendar section, January 9, 1994)
Outspoken Men Win an Ovation
(Originally printed in the L.A. Times, Sunday, October 6, 1996)
Ovation Awards Brochure
At the 1996 Ovation Awards, Joseph Stern was honored alongside legendary playwright August Wilson.