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 ‘I have reservations’ column was originally conceived as a place for me, a non-actor, non-theatre member, average Joe-Theatre-goer (and all around over-user of dashes) to provide an audience point of view with respect to the actual experience of attending small theatre in Los Angeles. I do not attempt to review the [...]
by Geoff Hoff
Editor’s Note: Full disclosure, this is an article about a new work being written and developed by one of LATR’s reviewers, David Jette.
Picasso wrote a play. Yes, that Picasso. It was called Desire Caught by the Tail. A reading of it was preformed one night at the home of [...]
Editor’s Note: This month the “Editor’s Page” will also be the front page because it goes far in expressing what we are about at Los Angeles Theatre Review and why we do what we do.
by Geoff Hoff
We Love Small Theatre
What are reviews?
Some people think of them as consumer advocacy. An expression of “Don’t see [...]
by Robin Galen Kilrain
A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre
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And Then, You Act: Making Art in an Unpredictable World
by Anne Bogart
Ye Bare and Ye Cubb presented in a Virginia pub in 1665, and Hair performed in Sarajevo by a Bosnian company during the height of conflict there in the early 1990s. Christo’s [...]
By Joel Elkins
When do we really grow up? At exactly what point do we go from being care-free teenagers to being care-ful adults? From being anti-establishment to being the establishment? And what causes this metamorphosis? Inevitably, every generation undergoes it, so the catalyst must surely be a universal one. Just [...]
By K. Primeau
Standing around outside of Santa Monica Playhouse’s The Other Space, chatting up cast members and munching on mini cream puffs on opening night of Love in Bloom, I couldn’t help but be reminded of Theatre’s tradition as a meeting space within a community. The playhouse, which will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary next [...]
by Geoff Hoff
Pinter is difficult. The best Pinter is the most difficult. I did not know No Man’s Land before I saw it tonight at the Odyssey Theatre. I still don’t know it. I don’t think knowing it is possible. Experiencing it, however, was wonderful. It is, like much [...]
