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 Geoff Hoff
Full disclosure: I am good friends with one of the cast members of Land of the Tigers, Tim Sheridan.
Photo taken by Chelsea Cota
Land of the Tigers is two plays. Sort of. The first is an exquisitely silly parody of important, symbolic, avant guard, political, socially conscious and wholly pretentious theatre. The second is [...]
by Geoff Hoff
Macbeth and the Weird Sisters
It is always with a strange combination of excitement and trepidation that I see a new production of a Shakespeare play, especially one of the tragedies. Done well, any Shakespeare play can be electrifying, exhilarating, enlightening. Even done not quite so well, done by untrained actors with heart and [...]
by Geoff Hoff
Upon entering the Art/Work Theatre, the audience is confronted by a very evocative set – three beds, one a small, messy single, surrounded by black-light posters, photographs and other accoutrement that seem transported to modern time by any disenfranchised radical from any year from 1967 forward. Under it are many, many books, suggesting [...]
by Geoff Hoff
eLove, a Musical.com/edy is described in the press release as a “cyber love story where a man and a woman, searching for that ‘special online someone’, discover that love in the internet reveals a little more than either one had expected.” It is a typical boy meets girl, boy almost loses girl, boy [...]
by Geoff Hoff
The eight plays (actually seven the day I saw it) that make up the production called Misconceptions currently playing at Lonny Chapman’s Group Repertory Theatre are loosely connected sketches tied together by the notion that people have misconceptions about others and about themselves. The author, Art Shulman, called on the poster “the Neil [...]
by Geoff Hoff
I have wanted to see The Mystery of Irma Vep, written by Charles Ludlam, since I first heard about it some fifteen years ago or so. The idea of farce, parody, social commentary and Mr. Ludlam’s Ridiculous Theatricals Company mixed up with a play where two actors play eight characters seemed to me [...]
