Konstantine Stanislavski Love art in yourself and not yourself in art.
Harold Clurman The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.
By P. C. Clarke
This is the first of several articles I will write on the audience experience at small theatres. It is only my opinion, but it is based on years of attending performances at various small theatre venues in different cities, including Los Angeles.
Small theatres are, by and large, run By actors and For [...]
By Geoff Hoff
Stories about fathers and sons are a ubiquitous presence in western literature. Stories of fathers who destroy, or attempt to destroy their sons a large subset. John Patrick Shanley’s “Beggars in the House of Plenty” is one such story. Shanley’s play takes an interesting approach to the telling, however. Told, as is often [...]
By Geoff Hoff
I had a surreal experience today. I was in AOL (yes, I know, but I’ve had that email address for over fifteen years) and happened across one of those “Picture Gallery” articles (you know, the ones that open up in a new window and require you to scroll through a series of generic [...]
A TREATISE NAILED TO THE DOORS OF THE AMERICAN THEATRE
(in no particular order)
By Addison DeWitt
An under-educated audience.
A passionless existence lived by artists who must, by nature, lead the masses away from a passionless existence.
Political correctness of any kind for any reason.
Believing that the director is always right.
Pulled punches.
Fear of offending someone.
Pulled punches for fear of [...]
By Geoff Hoff
“In 1964, Samuel Beckett, Buster Keaton and Alan Schneider made a film. That much is true…”
That is the tag on the posters for Theatre of NOTE’s production of Patrick McGowan’s play, Film, and it seems appropriate, as much of the script seems historically inaccurate. This is not necessarily a bad thing; drama, it [...]
