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~
Wilfred Owen was a young soldier in World War One (the first war to end all wars), sent to the Craiglockhart War Hospital for the Mentally Disabled because he suffered from shell shock, which his commanding officer called “Cowardice”. There he met poet and decorated war hero Siegfried Sassoon who befriended him and [...]
by Sylvia Blush ~
The Ark Theatre Company has sought out and produced the Los Angeles debut of Oscar Wilde’s original intended work Lady Lancing “A Serious Comedy for Trivial People” Or, The Importance of Being Earnest, “A Trivial Comedy for Serious People”. For over one hundred years, this widely recognized classic has been [...]
by Joel Elkins~
In the overture to Opus, now making an extended run at the Fountain Theatre, one of the characters compares making beautiful music together to lovemaking (and bad music to drinking Drano). If so, then the Lazara Quartet at the heart of the play is an absolute orgy, four men whose legatos, crescendos and [...]
by Vince Duvall~
A few minutes earlier, in the cozy little lobby of The Space just off Melrose, I chatted with Coeurage Theatre’s a artistic director Mr. Jeremy Lelliot about the company’s recent move from the valley to Hollywood and their experience at the Hollywood Fringe Festival - year one, which seems to have sparked something [...]
by Marcus Kaye~
Procreation takes a long, hard look at a dysfunctional family and the issues with, you guessed it, procreation. Directed by David Schweizer and written by Justin Tanner, Procreation is a troubled, crowded piece of theater.
The production was troubled from the get go. Originally set to open in New York City (where producers Linda [...]
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by Marcus Kaye-
What started as a competitive entrée in the New York Musical Theatre Festival and ended with successful runs both on and off-Broadway and a Tony nomination for Best Book in 2009, [title of show] has finally arrived at the Celebration Theatre for its Los Angeles premiere.
And the Celebration Theatre, with its commitment to [...]
by Freddy Puza ~
Three Sisters After Chekhov by Mustapha Matura is a superb, post-colonial adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s classic masterpiece. An ambitious undertaking, the play tells the stories of a privileged family living in Colonial era Trinidad and explores the delicate relationship we all have to ourselves, to family, to community and to the government.
Set [...]
by Vince Duvall~
1995. Toy Story is number one at the box office, the Dow hits a record 5000 and in the little town of El Monte, 20 miles southeast of the Hollywood sign, on August 2, a multi-agency task force raided a seven-unit apartment complex and freed 72 undocumented Thai immigrant workers, most of them [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
There are those who actually set out to offend their audience. I can certainly understand the impulse, and even possibly respect it as a way of getting a point across, but it isn’t my style. I never set out intentionally to offend. I will often even soften things, put them in the most [...]
by Ashley Steed~
Company: Theatre Asylum / Combined Artform
Neighborhood: Hollywood
Address: 6320 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90038
Website: www.theatreasylum-la.com
Seat capacity: Theatre – 82; Lab - 40
When founded: Theatre Asylum – 2007; Lab – 2010.
Parking: Free street.
Handicap accessible: Yes
Restrooms: Yes
Amenities: Wi-Fi, Full Video in both theatres, surround sound, heating, a/c.
Lobby: Yes
Concessions: Yes; and you’re allowed to bring [...]
