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 Joel Elkins~
Stage Door was written by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman during the depths of the Depression and was later made into a movie starring, among others, Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller and Eve Arden. It takes place in the fictitious “Footlights Club,” a boarding house in Manhattan for aspiring [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
The play He Who Gets Slapped was written by Russian playwright Leonid Andreyev in the early 1900s. The original play was about a down-on-his-luck intellectual who shows up in the anti-room of a run down French circus, insinuates himself into the ranks of the clowns and becomes “He Who Gets Slapped.” That play [...]
by K. Primeau~
A first full-length production is a bit of a milestone for a theatre company. In it, the young collective establishes their identity, carving their place within the theatre-drenched LA scene. Months of fundraising and mission statement tweaking leads up to this moment, when personality and production meet the unpredictable public. As such, with [...]
by D. Jette~
British actor and playwright Tim Crouch has received international acclaim for his stage work for good reason: not only is he a captivating and compassionate performer, as a playwright he has demonstrated a fundamental understanding of what makes theatre different from all other narrative arts, an understanding that he puts to work in [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
Hamlet is considered by many one of the best plays written at any time, in any language. It is a play about revenge, actual and thwarted, about the consequences of action and inaction, about power and its abuse. The character of Hamlet is rich and complex. He moves from anger to lust, from [...]
by K. Primeau~
We all know what it is like to go to the theatre and feel like an actor is simply talking AT you. Whether they didn’t do their homework, or the director wanted to try something out, or whatever the reason, the lack of real communication with the audience is the stuff bad theatre [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
Robert Altman was one of my favorite movie makers. When making a movie, he always set himself up for a challenge. Sometimes the challenge was too grand and he didn’t reach it, as in Quintet. Sometimes it wasn’t very grand at all, as in Gosford Park, but he made it glorious. Sometimes the [...]
by Joel Elkins~
There’s small theater and then there’s intimate theater. For its current production, The Knightsbridge Theatre has taped off its normal 99 seats and gathered about 25 folding chairs around the stage, pulling the audience so close they almost feel part of the action. Which is, I guess, the point. What’s more, the company [...]
We have been working on a redesign of our on-line newspaper for some time. In the last several weeks, during the holidays, instead of creating new content, we concentrated simply and completely on building the new site. (And, of course, enjoying the holidays, we aren’t that altruistic!)
With this new design, we have added many features, [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
Fate is the notion that there is a power quite outside ourselves that controls the interactions and odd happenings of our lives, that there are outcomes and circumstance we experience that are pre-determined for us. The idea is that, when something unexpectedly wonderful or tragic happens, it was fated to happen. Fate can [...]
