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.
LA Theatre Reveiw is proud to have had the privilege of covering the first
ever Hollywood Fringe Festival. We were able to review 82 productions at least
once. (Several of the productions were seen and reviewed by more than one of
our writers.)
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The 2010 Hollywood Fringe Festival is now behind us. Last night we had the extreme pleasure of handing out four La Fringe awards, all for outstanding contribution to theatre in Los Angeles.
The nominees and recipients were:
Outstanding Contribution to Theatre in Los Angeles in a Solo Show
1. The Event
2. Brownsville Bred
3. The Most Dangerous Woman in [...]
True West Girl at at The Lounge Theatre
by Robert Axelrod~
As one person shows go, True West Girl stands out for its sheer maintenance of manic energy. Writer/Performer Barbara Bragg traces her pioneer family back to her grandfather when Wyoming was still a territory. She assays her life from early [...]
(Some of our reviewers have seen Fringe shows already reviewed by LATR. They wanted to present their own views of the pieces, so I am putting the first few of these here. I will do more as they come in. – ed.)
4 Clowns at Art|Works Theatre
by K. Primeau~
This hilarious and surprisingly [...]
The Waste Land at Theatre Asylum
by K. Primeau~
T.S. Eliot’s poem on wandering the streets of London contains dissonant imagery of drought and despondency that could easily be descriptive of strolls along the LA River and barren, concrete-rock walls of Hollywood. In Filament Theatre Co.’s staged performance of the piece, five chorus members bring new [...]
Fat, Bald & Loud at The Complex
by Rachel Stoll~
Craig Shaynak’s show Fat, Bald & Loud is a constantly changing show involving accents, props, and audience participation. Shaynak has multiple scenes and ideas within the show. Furthermore, this show is never the same twice. One night you may get Russian hookers and Chicago cab drivers; [...]
Friends Like These at The Complex
by Rachel Stoll ~
Gregory Craft’s play Friends Like These takes a challenging look at the violence and anger within our schools. Garrett, the main character, is marked as the outsider in his high school and spends the majority of his time in a fantasy world called Haven. When things start [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
(Full disclosure: David Jette, the writer of the play Leiris/Picasso, also writes for this publication. -ed)
An existential-door slamming farce. That’s what Wednesday Night at the House of Michel Leiris: A Reading of the Play “Desire Caught by the Tail” by the Painter Pablo Picasso (otherwise known as Leiris/Picasso) is. The well timed [...]
The Packer at Theatre of NOTE
by Vince Duvall~
Hollywood Fringe is full of many one person plays– or I should say solo artist shows – I forget what they wanna be called now. In fact many fringe festivals carry a healthy percent of these types of shows because they go up easy, come down quick [...]
(Some of our reviewers have seen Fringe shows already reviewed by LATR. They wanted to present their own views of the pieces, so I am putting the first few of these here. I will do more as they come in. – ed.)
Eco-Friendly Jihad @Theatre of NOTE
by Kat Primeau ~
Abie Philbin Bowman started out as [...]
