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 D. Jette~
Living in Los Angeles has afforded me the guilty pleasure of meeting countless has-been actors from all levels of bygone fame (especially in bars.) All of them have one thing in common: a connection to a show or a director or another actor who actually made it and probably no longer returns their [...]
by D. Jette~
Creative design and black humor triumph again in the very entertaining new comedy Wirehead, now in performance by the Echo Theater Company at STAGE 52. The plot is familiar Phillip K. Dick material, and the story has its serious moments, but for the most part director Larry Biederman has gone beyond the script to [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
Duel Citizens is actually two distinct plays with little in common besides that in each, all the characters are played by one person.
In Look, What I don’t Understand, a young family man from communist Bulgaria tries, with his family, to enter the United States as a political refugee in 1969. Through flashbacks we [...]
by K. Primeau~
Antaeus Theatre Company continues its tradition of bringing audacious, relevant classical theatre to Los Angeles with their world-premiere production of Cousin Bette, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the original text by Honore de Balzac. The “deliciously wicked” tale of vengeance and lust effectively straddles post-Napoleonic France and contemporary wit with seamless grace and [...]
by K. Primeau~
Mutineer Theatre Company has done it again. After a successful run of their inaugural 2009 production, “Lie With Me,” the young company presents Ditch, a hilarious and intelligent dissection of the self-destuctive psychology we inevitably espouse in romantic relationships. From the pre-show announcement to the play’s final punch, the refreshingly raw new [...]
by D. Jette~
Daniel Henning continues his quest to make The Blank Theatre Company Hollywood’s first regional theater with the west coast premiere of Christopher Durang’s Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them. With a superb cast, an inventive production design and Durang’s timely and on-the-nose satire, he and the Blank have taken [...]
by Joel Elkins~
Generally, after seeing a play, my first thought as a reviewer is “Now, what am I going to write about this?” I sit at the computer and the blank screen stares back at me while I resist the urge to channel my inner teenager and say, “Yeah, I guess it was okay.”
However, [...]
by K. Primeau~
Hollywood – An energetic crowd of performance artists, dancers, directors, producers, playwrights, theatre companies, and local council members waited in line to participate in the Hollywood Fringe Festival’s community assembly last evening. The first public meeting to discuss the festival, set for June 17 to the 27, has been three years and one [...]
by Robin Galen Kilrain~
Playwrights at Work: The Paris Review Interviews George Plimpton, editor
You’re familiar with their names: Beckett, Wasserstein, Shepard, Hellman, Albee and Pinter among them. And probably with the disparate styles of their plays, as well. The hows and whys leading to those end products, however, may have eluded you. Until now. It’s just [...]
by D. Jette~
Director Stan Mazin has adapted the The City, a 1909 melodrama by Clyde Fitch, for the Group Rep now playing at the Lonny Chapman Theatre in North Hollywood. At the time, The City was scandalous, it used foul language and acknowledged adultery, moral relativism and the corrupt underbelly of the financial industry and [...]
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