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~
I was curious to find out if a takeoff on Gilbert & Sullivan set in outer space dubbed U.S.S. Pinafore could ever be as clever as its premise or its title.
The adaptation by Jon Mullich (who also directed) is indeed clever, although admittedly, the songs didn’t have to be altered [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
Mabel Davies has a work-a-day husband who is distant and doesn’t like her son. Her “best friend” neighbor, Fran, is an alcoholic divorcee who, it seems, will sleep with anyone, including Mabel’s son, who is a neo-Nazi who really hates his father. And Mabel moves forward in life pretending all is well. She [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
What to do with our aging parents. It is a problem that many face, some more elegantly than others. It is especially troubling when one of your parents starts to do odd things. When you notice this, it is often to late to take matters into your own hands. However, when the parent [...]
by Joel Elkins~
When I went to see the world premiere of Behind the Gates, all I knew about the play was its title and artwork on its poster and playbill, an iron lock inscribed with a Jewish star. I had no idea what it was about. When I saw the tagline (“A [...]
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by Addison DeWitt~
Alrighty then. Fresh coffee brewed. Check. Tulips cut back. Check. Soothing music on the Victrola. Hold on… check.
I am now prepared to attempt a reasoned response to the intriguing and perplexing feedback, debates and twaddle my previous essay addressing the debatable benefits and pitfalls of so-called “gender-blind” casting – “Stop Dicking [...]
We at LA Theatre Review are committed to covering as many of the shows at the Hollywood Fringe festival as is humanly possible. We will be doing capsule reviews, about 200 words each.
Because of that, we’ll need lots of writers for the ten days of [...]
by Ashley Steed~
Trapped inside a home with a group of people with dwindling resources and knowing stepping foot outside risks imminent death to you and your comrades is enough to make anyone crazy. Some more than others. Deity Clutch, written and directed by Gus Krieger and presented by the Porters of Hellsgate, chronicles the lives [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
There’s no getting around it. I don’t like script for the play Jesse Boy, now playing at the Ruskin Group Theatre. However, I fear that explaining why I don’t won’t be easy without giving too much about the play away, and no matter how much I dislike something, I am loath [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
(Full Disclosure: One of the actors in The Actor’s Nightmare, Kat Primeau, is one of LA Theatre Review’s writers.)
The two one-act plays, usually produced in tandem, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You and The Actor’s Nightmare are both quite different from each other but both share being absurd black comedies, being [...]
by Ashley Steed~
Company: Art|Works Theatre and Studios, home to:
viaCorpora, International Performance Research and Development House &
ARTEL Theatre Laboratory
Neighborhood: Hollywood
Address: 6567 – 6585 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Website:
www.artworkstheatre.com/
www.viacorpa.com/
www.arteltheatre.org/
Seat capacity: 84
When founded: 2005
Parking: Parking lot on site (16 cars only); Street parking easily accessible
Handicap accessible: Yes – Let them know [...]
