Faces to Watch in ’92 : These are the people Calendar’s critics and writers think you’ll be hearing about in 1992. In some cases, they’re familiar people who will experience a transitional year. Some are newcomers who could have a breakthrough year. : KAROLE FOREMAN

Karole Foreman is rapidly becoming one of the most accomplished and staggeringly versatile stage actors in Los Angeles. Just within the past year, she played Maman in George C. Wolfe’s “Jelly’s Last Jam” at the Mark Taper Forum, a TV-warped adolescent in Murray Mednick’s “Heads” at the Padua Hills Playwrights’ Festival and chirpy Minnie Fay in “Hello, Dolly!” at Long Beach Civic Light Opera. Critics are beginning to take note, and she’s been signed by prestigious Hillard Elkins. She made her first big splash in “Minamata,” Reza Abdoh’s environmental epic at Los Angeles Theatre Center, and went on to appear in two of LATC’s biggest hits, “The Illusion” and “The Crucible.” Now that LATC is dead, Foreman is a living reminder of that theater’s impressive multicultural legacy.