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 United International Peoples Experimental Circus (UIPEC) production of Romeo and Juliet, now playing at the smallest theatre at the Stella Adler, is a lusty, vivacious, decadent, wholly theatrical experience. The press release calls it a re-imagining. It’s not a re-imagining - West Side Story is a re-imagining. In this production, once you [...]
by Joel Elkins~
The Towne Street Theatre Company, formed in the aftermath of the LA riots with the mission of healing wounds through theatre, seems the natural venue for the world premiere of Langston & Nicolas, the story of the relationship between Langston Hughes and Cuban poet laureate Nicolás Guillén. Through fictionalized conversations between the two, [...]
by K. Primeau~
When Pierre Beaumarchais wrote The Marriage of Figaro, the satirical social-commentary was considered so scandalous it was censored for nearly six years. A seminal text in the lead-up to the French Revolution, Figaro reprised The Barber of Seville and was also composed into an opera by Mozart. With such a rich, fiery history, [...]
by Ashley Steed~
The Issacs’ upstate New York aging home, just 45 minutes from Broadway, is decorated with memorabilia of shows and performances of yester-year. It’s thespian inhabitants, although going through tough times, still embody the show biz saying “the show must go on.”
In this somewhat charming play by playwright and filmmaker Henry Jaglom, the eccentricities [...]
by Robin Galen Kilrain~
Banned Plays: Censorship Histories of 125 Stage Dramas
Dawn B. Sova
By Robin Galen Kilrain
Blocked from view. Deemed not fit for the theatre-going public. Cut, sliced and diced. Each of the shows referred to by Dawn Sova in Banned Plays: Censorship Histories of 125 Stage Dramas has been “challenged” sometime during the past 2,500 [...]
by Ashley Steed~
“Does anyone have any concept of what’s going on here?” asks Mason (Mark Sande), an executive of some vague corporation.
No, I think to myself. And I don’t think this production knows either.
Don Ponturo’s Survival Exercise satirizes corporate life through the office entanglements of the glib corporate tool Mason, his uneasy mentee Andrew (Michael [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
There has been much speculation in the last 400 years as to who actually wrote Shakespeare’s plays. The original suppositions, usually now considered as jokes, were that either Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlow or the 6th Earl of Darby did them. The compelling reasoning goes that the man from Stratford, a small, rural village, [...]
by Ashley Steed~
Company: Theatre Banshee
Neighborhood: Burbank – Magnolia Park
Address: 3435 W. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA 91505
(corner of Magnolia and Avon)
Website: www.theatrebanshee.org
Seat capacity: 60-72
When founded: 1995
Parking: Ample free, safe, street parking
Handicap accessible: Yes
Restrooms: Two – one is HC accessible
Amenities: Brand new theater-style seating, full compliment of light and [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
Alistair Beaton’s 2007 translation of Max Frisch’s The Arsonists (which was first translated into English as The Firebugs), now playing in its American premier at the Odyssey Theatre, is an allegorical and absurdist black comedy which examines middle class complacency in the face of great evil. Originally directed pointedly at the German people [...]
