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
I’m going to go about this review a bit backwards, talk about the actors, then about the play. One of the big draws, after all, is Megan Mullally. Megan Mullally is a hoot. She was a hoot as Karen on Will & Grace, she was a hoot in another small theatre [...]
by David Jette
Now running at the Lillian Theatre in Hollywood is Elephant Theatre Company’s world premiere of Block Nine, a same-sex noir by writer Tom Stanczyk. The play is performed by two alternating casts, one all male and the other all female, each with its own director and approach to the text. I [...]
by Joel Elkins
“As I come out: this action I now go on
Is for my better grace.”
The Winter’s Tale, Act 2, Scene 1
Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins, making its West Coast premiere at The El Centro Theatre, is a lighthearted, yet tender story of a boy coming of age – and out – in the [...]
by David Jette
The two year-old outfit Theatre Unleashed are presenting two commonly performed contemporary works in repertory at the Sherry Theater: Sarah Kane’s morbid 4.48 Psychosis and David Ives’ perennial favorite All in the Timing. The company calls their dual production ‘Contemporary Constructions’ and while they make a case for how these plays contrast in [...]
by Joel Elkins
Henry Murray’s Tree Fall, now making its world premiere at Theatre Theater, is a dark vision of the future of mankind, forecasting the gradual extinction of the human race. It would not be accurate to call Tree Fall post-apocalyptic, simply because no apocalyptic event occurred to precipitate the collapse. Instead, geologically subtle changes [...]
by Geoff Hoff
Having just seen (and written a review of) Shakespeare’s rarely produced play, Cymbeline, I was quite curious when I saw an announcement for The Actor’s Gang’s new, free, outdoor children’s theatre production of Cymbeline the Puppet King. For one thing, Shakespear’s play is quite violent. With a name like “The Puppet [...]
By Robin Galen Kilrain
Most people don’t immediately think of theatre books for their summer reading. Then again, if not taking classes in the art/craft of theatre, most people don’t think about them at all. If you’d like to be one of the exceptions, however, you’re in luck. It’s not too late to spend a lazy [...]
By P.C. Clarke
Speaking from the point of view of the audience it is sometimes hard to understand how a particular play ever sees life on stage. Some shows leave you shaking your head in wonder that an artistic director, an artistic committee, a producer, a director and fifteen actors ever saw merit in the piece [...]
by Geoff Hoff
I was half-way through writing my second review of a play at the Theatricum Botanicum this season when it dawned on me that it wasn’t, in almost any sense of the word, a “small theatre”. When we first started discussing this site, much time was spent on what we would include, now [...]
