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~
Of director Jennifer Chambers’ previous production, The Muscles in Our Toes, I commented: “I don’t know whether any part is meant to be taken seriously. . . . All I know is it was funny. And that’s saying something.” Her latest endeavor, Play Dates currently playing at the Elephant Theatre, is twice as [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
William Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream is, probably, his most produced work. There are many reasons for that; it is fairly simple, fairly magical and very funny. It is “safe” Shakespeare, for those who think they don’t or can’t understand or appreciate the plays. Besides, it’s always fun to see someone turned into a [...]
by Joel Elkins~
The Girl Who Would Be Kingis a fairy tale about “Basil,” a girl raised as a boy by her power-hungry father, the Duke of Lesser Flugel, in the hope that she could one day ascend to the throne of the patrilineal Kingdom of Flugelhorn. She is raised to be proud of her “manhood” [...]
by Ashley Steed~
Songs and Dances of Imaginary Lands is an ambitious collaborative effort headed by Overtone Industries. This contemporary operetta developed and directed by O-Lan Jones, with musical direction by David O comprises 28 original songs by 21 librettists and 11 composers. Utilizing a temporarily abandoned warehouse in Culver City, the space has been transformed [...]
by Ashley Steed~
On Sunday, the last day of the inaugural Hollywood Fringe Festival, LATR hosted a critics panel with Don Shirley from LA Stage Blog (which I also write for), Harvey Perr from Stage and Cinema, Collin Mitchell and Enci from Bitter Lemons, Steven Leigh Morris from LA Weekly, and our very own editor-in-chief Geoff [...]
Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times
Susan Quinn
by Robin Galen Kilrain
When Susan Quinn writes, “First the stock market collapsed, then the banks closed, then ordinary people began to lose their jobs,” she isn’t describing this country’s recent financial history but that of America in the [...]
