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
Unlike most theatre-going folks, apparently, I have never had formal aviation training. So I had to do a little research just to understand the title of this play. I discovered that an airplane wing cutting through the air creates an updraft known as “lift” as well as air resistance known as “drag.” Being [...]
No Place Like Home: A Memoir in 39 Apartments
Brooke Berman
Random House, 2010
by Robin Galen Kilrain~
You may have been there yourself. Well, maybe not literally there (428 East 9th Street in the East Village, New York City).Or there (285 Mott Street in SoHo). Or even there (48 Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn). But perhaps, instead, in a [...]
by Sylvia Blush ~
Norman P. Dixon’s struggles are not any more gripping or action-packed than any one of ours, but the painstaking vulnerability in facing life’s fears is one we can all relate to.
Becoming Norman takes you on a spiritual journey of one man’s struggle to uncover his internal spirit; not to be confused with [...]
by Freddy Puza~
What is the price of racial equality in America? At what length do we have to go to achieve it? More interesting, what, if anything, must be covered up in order to protect it? The Good Negro at the Stella Adler Theatre opens up a much-needed conversation about these fundamental issues as the [...]
by Joel Elkins~
Milk, milk, lemonade
‘Round the corner, fudge is made
Stick your finger up the hole…
Out comes a chocolate Tootsie roll.
– classic children’s rhyme
MilkMilkLemonade, now playing at the Rogue Machine, is about as grounded and focused as the nonsensical children’s rhyme upon which it is inexplicably titled.
Introduced by an awkward and nervous narrator, and interspersed with [...]
by Addison DeWitt~
“I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in
seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it.” – Samuel Johnson
My mother was a dear woman. Always tending to the concerns of others and doing her able best to guarantee that, no matter [...]
by Vince Duvall~
What have Nick Mills and Vitality Productions built over at the Theatre Asylum on Santa Monica in Hollywood? Outside of the stale, albeit established style of companies like The Actors’ Gang or the steady stream of money that usually doesn’t make it outside the Geffen or downtown, Still Standing by Shyla Marlin is [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
I realize that, over the few years I have been a theatre critic, I have become a bit jaded. I suspect it may be one of the inevitable consequences of the pursuit. I want every play I see to be brilliant, and enough aren’t that I no longer expect it, which is sad. [...]
by Ashley Steed~
Company: Theatre/Theater
Neighborhood: Mid City
Address:5041 West Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90019
Website:www.theatretheater.net
Seat capacity: Two performance spaces: 99 and 40
When founded: December 1981
Parking: Yes
Handicap accessible: Yes
Restrooms: Two
Amenities: A/C, heating, excellent lighting equipment, screens, sound system, wi-fi.
Lobby: Yes
Concessions: Yes; depending on who is producing you might be able to bring it in the theatre.
What’s nearby:
Locals Sports [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
Alan Ayckbourn has written more plays than many of us have seen in our lives, some 74 full length ones at last count, not to mention a one-act, plays for children, screenplays, scripts for television and radio, sketches for reviews and at least one book. He loves playing with setting. In Norman [...]
