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~
The Charm of Making is a slightly surreal play about the final generation of an upper class family in modern day Mississippi, fallen on hard times. It is a “Southern Play” in the tradition of Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner. Although most of the people here are much more willing to talk about [...]
by K. Primeau~
I find it difficult to critique a play in which a technical malfunction knowingly disrupted the performance. In the case of Knightsbridge Theatre and The National American Shakespeare Company’s presentation of The Mystery Plays, that malfunction included a busted light board, resulting in last minute lighting cues thrown together in twenty minutes prior [...]
by Robin Galen Kilrain~
Tips : Ideas for ActorsJon Jory
Jon Jory doesn’t want you to read straight through his book. He’s in favor of “tip dipping,” instead. Comparing the cover-to-cover consumption of Tips: Ideas for Actors to downing numerous espressos one after another, Jory suggests that spreading out its ingestion may prove more useful. And enjoyable. [...]
by D. Jette~
When people asked me what kind of play I was going to be reviewing over the weekend I told them ‘a Katrina drama’ without even pausing to coin the term. Most people understood instantly what I meant, despite that such a label has no relevance to the actual content of a play, only [...]
by Joel Elkins~
There is something to be said for truth in advertising.
Dialogue Between a Prostitute and Her Client, now playing at The Fremont Centre Theatre, can best be described, unsurprisingly, as a dialogue between a prostitute and her client. No misrepresentation. No bait and switch. Now, if only the characters were as forthcoming.
The play opens [...]
by K. Primeau~
When you walk into a theatre and the first question they ask is, “Would you like vodka? Or better vodka?” you know either way you’re a winner. If the play is a mess, at the very least you can enjoy the stiff drink. But when that introduction leads you through a worn-down circus, [...]
by Ashley Steed~
“Tonight I have seen that I have been the fool, just a bit player in a story you all know too well.”
The story is that of a man prophesied to kill his father and marry his mother. That bit player is, of course, Oedipus. Luis Alfaro’s Oedipus El Rey, playing at Boston Court, [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
On The Air, playing at the Whitefire Theatre, is a charming show, a murder mystery musical comedy, although it is not quite a full musical; there are only two songs in the first act and only two in the second. The murder mystery also takes a back seat to that shenanigans going on [...]
by Ashley Steed~
(Full Disclosure: Ms. Steed is a proud new member of Son of Semele Ensemble and is therefore very much biased. That being said, she is partial to anyone who is passionate about the theatre.)
Company: Son of Semele Ensemble
Neighborhood: Silver Lake
Address: 3301 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90004
(on the corner of [...]
By P.C. Clark~
So, here I am. I’ve decided to get up off my lovely leather couch, leaving my home-theatre- blue- ray-surround-sound-ultimate-movie-theatre-experience behind. I’ve decided I need to leave my comfortable home and venture out into the “actual” world and risk bumping into “actual” people and see an “actual” theatre piece.
I’ve done my research. [...]
